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. Lean daily management systems were pioneered by Toyota, Honda, and other manufacturers. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. health care keeps getting costlier.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

Former government official and management expert Kristen Cox teamed up with business consultant Yishai Ashlag in the book Stop Decorating the Fish: Which Solutions to Ignore and Which Problems Really Matter. It’s like adding more of an ingredient to a recipe hoping that the final product will be better. Why is that? Think about data.

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Constraint PR Policies Tactics 110

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. With the advent of digital imaging, Kodak was outpaced by other companies that could better achieve consumer goals. The analogous situation in health care is that whereas doctors and hospitals focus on producing health care, what people really want is health.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The company begins with a goal, such as safely carrying 250 passengers nonstop from New York to London in under six hours, and follows a disciplined approach to identify the components and subsystems that meet those requirements. All of this leads to needless patient harm, low productivity, excessive costs, and clinician burnout.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If twenty infractions later an employee is still employed at an organization with no effort to improve the workplace later, again, the company is going to remain far from being at its productive best. The stages of the employee review and reasonable consequences need to be planned for, to ensure there are no issues that occur later.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote. Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision?

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 29, 2011

Speaking with Kristen made me see how well World Vision connects its workers and donors with those who are need, not only financially to meet their needs for clean water, health care and education, but also connecting them relationally. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Businesses that are serious about reducing health care costs — and improving the health and well-being of their employees — should take a serious look at digital therapeutics, which have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases and their consequences. Insight Center.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. Reducing the rate at which health care costs grow, and the proportion of U. health system grew by nearly 75%. Over half of the $2.6

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Beginning at 8:45 AM, care teams and managers in our hospitals and clinics gather in more than 1,500 Tier I huddles.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries. Yet, investments in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

We are a nation that cares for our fellow citizens, yet we have failed to create a health care system that fully meets the needs of people in this country. Health care is fragmented, and the quality of care varies widely, which leads to unsustainable health care spending.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Transforming Health Care Delivery to Increase Value. The Power of Digitalizing Health Care. New technologies also hold the promise of reducing expense by improving the quality and quantity of patient data, and increasing workforce productivity, they said. ” Value will be at the heart of care delivery.

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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. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. Engage health systems in change. The HTA “anticipates delivering better health care while reducing costs” through its members’ collective work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. The health of the American workforce is declining , reducing both productivity and company earnings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions. Turn services into products. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 11, 2018

The bulk of Muller’s research is devoted to case studies in colleges, elementary schools, health care systems, policing, the military, business, finance, philanthropy and foreign aid. Under McNamara, the armed forces sought to meet productivity targets of bombing sorties, shells fired and body counts.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. This continuing transfer from wages to health care does not reflect better value for money.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In all of the loud and necessary debates over how to reform health care in the United States before it bankrupts the country, there is one element that has been continually overlooked: the management systems employed by hospitals. If managers achieve the objectives, they are rewarded. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

Recently my fellow HBR blogger Daniel Markovitz suggested that stretch goals can be demotivating, and should be replaced by confidence-building "quick wins." The key to integrating the two is to carve quick wins out of long-term goals — so that each small success is a building block towards achieving a broader challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Building market share by delivering rich, intuitive experiences is a key goal for all organizations. For health insurers, this customer centricity is an imperative. Individual consumers now have increasing freedom to shop for health plans and to choose how they spend their healthcare dollars. 40 percent).

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals. Widget manufacturing companies team with retail management experts to open a string of widget stores. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Professional societies and associations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Leaders in today’s complex health care systems need better processes and systems for aligning day-to-day, clinical-care activities with the strategic goals of their organizations. Transforming Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. How leading providers are delivering value for patients.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers? The analysis showed that hospital quality scores are approximately 25% higher in physician-run hospitals than in manager-run hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The company runs data science competitions, where the goal is to arrive at a better prediction than the submitting organization's starting 'baseline' prediction. The online startup Kaggle assembles a diverse group of people from around the world to work on tough problems submitted by organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

health care, one thing hasn’t changed: Patients, clinicians, health plans, payers, and policy makers are still striving to achieve better outcomes at lower costs. Redesigning their care is a major way we can improve lives and sustainably reduce overall health care costs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In our research into more than 8,000 companies in 20 countries, 79% of organizations reported that their management practices were above average. companies, and fewer than 5% elsewhere, scored above a 4 on a five-point management-practices scale we created. That should have been very good news.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more. Progress is measured with 169 targets.

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

Deming to Japan starting in 1950, and how companies like Toyota developed management systems that are now being studied (and copied) by other industries (including healthcare). Deming’s philosophy ( understanding and managing variation ) that I found to be largely missing in the conversations and actions of many healthcare organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

But nowhere is the potential of this new era of opportunity more apparent and exciting than it is in health care. They can pinpoint treatments that sustain health in a more precise way than ever before. For the volume-to-value paradigm shift in health care, predictive analytics, though rarely visible, is the essential enabler.

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