Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

First, these leaders understand that achieving a goal is very different from eliminating a problem. A problem is only a problem within the context of a goal and a vision. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them.” Kristen Cox. Kristen Cox.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. Prove to Others That You’re Proving It to Yourself by Steve Farber (posted 11/22/10) Extreme Leadership is not a solo act; it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. More on that in an upcoming post).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Many of those working in the consolidating health care industry will immediately validate several of the authors’ key findings, including: Bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. Transforming Health Care. Hamel and Zanini declare that there is “no map to disassembling bureaucracy.” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science. Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Increasing value in health care is a top priority for health systems, payers, and policy makers across the globe, as health care costs continue to escalate and consume an ever-greater proportion of national expenditures. Taking the Pulse of Health Care Transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Calls for teamwork in health care are as persistent as they are hard to heed. For years, the basic model for managing coordination in health care delivery has relied on what organizational scholars called role-based coordination. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. The ramifications for traditional care providers typically dominated by hospitals is going to be big and may happen fast. Traditional care providers can and must fight back.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Let’s hope that’s true for “value” in health care. Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. As Thomas Lee noted in the New England Journal of Medicine, “no one can oppose this goal and expect long-term success.”.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It is a widely held belief among health care leaders that comparing their hospitals and clinics to peers is very important. health care quality and safety is abysmal: The evidence suggests that between 240,000 to 400,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors. Define the goal. Create a core team.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. Leading Change in Health Care. Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Bundled payments in health care have gained favor because they can reduce costs and help improve outcomes. In essence, episodic bundles cover the cost of a patient’s care from start to finish—all the procedures, devices, tests, drugs and services a patient will need for, say, a knee replacement or back surgery.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 7, 2012

They also missed much less work and reported significantly fewer doctor visits , which meant health care savings and less lost time for the company.” And those with high energy and low learning had 54% worse health than those with both. 2. Sharing Information.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Much has been written about the troubling lack of women in leadership roles generally and in health care in particular. In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

Kurt Newman became a pediatric surgeon because he was attracted to the innovative culture and the extraordinary variety of problems doctors encounter at children’s hospitals, as well as the dramatic recoveries children can make. The payback is so meaningful that it draws people who are creative and innovative and thinking differently.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

But with their focus on clinical disease management and research, training programs actually offer little in the way of true leadership training – authentic experience that helps young doctors develop the leadership skills they will need. Yet, both are made up of large, complex organizations with clear leadership needs at many levels.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The scientific, medical and public health establishment continues to provide evidence of the value of immunization.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Moving outside of these castles is the beginning of innovation. For example, “health is equated with hospitals, education with schoolhouses, news with newspapers, spirituality with the church, a city with city hall.” Health isn’t the hospital or even the doctor’s office. Advanced Leadership. We need more Advanced Leaders.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 22, 2015

” He discussed Paul O’Neill’s influence on his thinking ; I agree that Paul has done some very impressive work in health care. They also believed that making improvements in the real world was the goal. Bill Hunter and John Hunter.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Welcome to the dawning era of social innovation, in which more people aspire to tackle old problems in new ways with new tools.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What would a system to achieve these goals look like in practice? All patients would designate health care proxies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

The hardest part is connecting long-term goals to near-term actions — especially when those new actions directly threaten the way you make money right now. Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., The innovation portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Health systems are at a crossroads. The reason: half of the population lacked health insurance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Doctors were once viewed as ill-prepared for leadership roles because their selection and training led them to become “heroic lone healers.” The emphasis on patient-centered care and efficiency in the delivery of clinical outcomes means that physicians are now being prepared for leadership. The Best Hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics. The Launch.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We conservatively estimate that the related costs of diabetes — including medication, supplies, hospital care, and the treatment of complications — will exceed $1 trillion a year by 2045. That’s why cities need to work together with a broad alliance of health care leaders and community organizers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Why is growth and innovation in some industries so sluggish? Our reluctance to stick our collective neck out has everything to do with the psychology of motivation — specifically, how we think about the goals we pursue. If, instead, we see our goals in terms of what we might gain, we have what's called a promotion focus.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

I recently conducted a study of 56 randomly selected companies involved in major change and innovation efforts in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Nearly 68% of these large-scale change and innovative efforts failed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I have long believed that innovation is not just about creating new products or services; it's also about rethinking the very nature of an organization's relationships. At Starbucks, this shift is values can be seen in the health-care coverage and stock options we have long offered to part-time employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? Kaiser Permanente believes that as health care becomes more consumer-oriented, the digital experience becomes a key differentiator. In a fragmented media and social landscape, marketers can no longer reach their goals for awareness and reputation just through paid media and PR.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

He and his wife aren’t just race enthusiasts, they are social entrepreneurs: founders of Riders for Health , an organization that manages transportation systems for the delivery of health care in seven countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Today, on virtually every relevant health indicator, Africa lags.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Andy Grove, Intel's legendary former CEO, famously touted the virtues of paranoia as a leadership asset — running scared about imagined enemies or competitors. Feeling vulnerable as a small city-state, Singapore's leaders set high standards, benchmark against the best in the world, seek innovation, and invest in ideas of the future.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Similarly, Procter & Gamble''s Pampers team in Nigeria find happiness facing the problem of infant mortality and devising solutions, such as mobile clinics that sent a physician and two nurses to areas lacking access to health care. And they are also likely to produce innovative solutions to difficult problems.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But, in my experience, in the most innovative companies, teaming is the culture. Morath’s simple questions made the staff realize that most of them had been at the center of a health care situation where something did not go well and the hospital could indeed be doing better. The leader’s task is to model these behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques. Tie goals to concrete results. better goal would be something like “Sell $100,000 worth of the new product.”

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