Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2016

When we looked at thirty-plus case studies of successful companies, we found that they all share an audacious approach to disruption. Large to small, in fields from construction to tech to health care, they win hearts, minds and wallets by innovating ways to stay the obvious choice in the market. Identify future needs.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

To what extent is that down to a successful ‘Culture of Innovation?’ ’ Kristen Ludgate: 3M’s culture of innovation definitely comes through in the experience and approach of 3Mers during their day-to-day work. That culture rewards experimentation and encourages collaboration with colleagues around the world.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The Baldrige Award is the nation’s highest honor for organizational innovation and performance excellence. . Appointed by the NIST Director, examiners are responsible for reviewing and evaluating applications submitted for the Baldrige Award, as well as other assessment-related tasks.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

There are many tasks involved in running a successful business. You have to watch your competitors and seek to always adapt to changes in the market, and innovate for solutions. A successful business is always looking for ways to cut costs and increase revenues, so they can grow their profits.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 25, 2013

Meeting with a Chief Operations Officer of a Health Care Organization, whose team I have been consulting and coaching. YES, yes there is…and these questions can be cascaded through the organization. Creating a shared language that is known and expected from everyone in the department. How would you simplify the questions?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

Employers will need to provide employees with the tools they need to connect, collaborate and innovate no matter where they are working. We have a strong history of collaboration and innovation. By creating a purpose-driven culture, CVS Health has found itself in the constant process of cognitive transformation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 7, 2018

It is likely your organization is multigenerational, multiracial, multilingual, ethnically-diverse and gender-fluid. My work as a global strategist organizing chaos and solving problems in health care puts me in touch with extraordinary people navigating these choppy waters. It may cross time zones. They were overwhelmed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

One of the hardest things about introducing innovation or change in organizations is getting people on board. This is especially true in health care. For many staff, physicians, and nurses, these changes mean less time healing patients and fostering wellness — the reasons they became health care professionals.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Developing this ownership culture will be key to our success. Pfizer people care. They embody our humanity and innovative spirit, and are determined to tackle some of the most pressing health care challenges of our time. People are more committed and loyal to an organization that is ethical.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

When I was Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, I often felt that my title should have been Chief Innovation Communication and Relations Officer. In any firm, an innovation program cannot be effective without building bridges within the firm. Innovating in highly regulated industries can be challenging.

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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. health care keeps getting costlier. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care. Transforming Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Those who can’t or won’t become the barrier to growth and success. At some point founders need to shift their focus from making the idea real to building a team and then an organization that will make the idea real. Success depends on your ability to delegate not just responsibility; you have to delegate authority.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 4, 2023

If you’d like a touch of reality to counter the doom and gloom, check out these links: World Health Organization estimates measles deaths decreased 83% from 2000 to 2021 (56 million deaths) because of vaccinations. Would you really like to go back to those “good old days?”. “A additional hospitalizations, 3.2 It’s about balance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

A concrete example comes from within my own company, McKesson, the largest health-care services firm in the US. A year later, we did acquire them — but rather than swallow RelayHealth whole, we wanted to preserve its innovative DNA and disseminate it across our company. What makes it work for our company?

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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. ” CEOs are substantially less likely than frontline staff to see bureaucratic barriers in their organizations. Transforming Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

No matter how many creative solutions we drum up to improve quality of care and service in the U.S. health system, they won’t do much good if only a few clinicians and institutions know about them and apply them. His letter linked readers to the video and full article.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

They start by sharing the “Seductive Seven” which is a list of common tactics organizations may use to respond to problems: More technology. For example, we can see data dashboards, organization charts, spreadsheets, new strategic plans, or the latest new technology trend bouncing around social media. The Seductive Seven. Kristen Cox.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. Leading health care organizations recognize that improving care isn’t enough; having a systematic approach to sustaining improvement is equally important.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

health care system spends almost a third of its resources — $750 billion annually — on unnecessary services and inefficient care. But despite the tools’ power to improve care, most health care institutions are not yet using them. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 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 challenge that we face — making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people — is not unique to health care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 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. At first blush, it would appear that entrepreneurship is alive and well in health care. Think instead about other industries.

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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

MARCH 5, 2014

First, they are responsible for contributing a large chunk of patients into the health care system, especially in developed countries like the US. Second, these diseases are non-communicable, and are caused by poor diet, lack of exercise, and unhealthy lifestyle rather than bacteria, viruses and other micro-organisms.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. Kodak had built a successful enterprise producing cameras, film, and photographic paper and chemicals, but what people wanted was images, and so when a better way to get those images was found, its customers followed. What Business Are We In? bankruptcy court.

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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 1, 2017

Omada Health , a digital therapeutics firm focused on preventing obesity-related chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, has made significant strides in achieving both with the 120,000 prediabetics who have participated in its program. Transforming Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Few health care leaders would disagree that the U.S. health care industry needs to drastically change. Over the past two years, we’ve convened health care leaders at roundtables and other events to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face, both inside their organization and from the external market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

And although the industry saw a slight slowdown in 2015, innovations with 3D-printed products are visible among a wide range of industries. This shift has the potential to disrupt the alarming trajectory of rising health care costs at exactly the moment when aging Baby Boomers will be putting more pressure on the health care system.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1980, the national expenditure on health care in the United States was just over 9% of Gross Domestic Product. According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Something similar is just starting to happen in health care. health-care industry in action, one billing claim or specialist referral at a time. As a result, we can rapidly innovate and improve our products. Slowly but surely, these same techniques are being brought to the B2B space, and to health care.

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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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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Five Reasons to Make Discomfort Your Friend How to Get Lazy People to Work Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday Ten Ways to Make a Great First Impression Five Minutes - a Key to Successful Time Management Kevin Eikenberry: Thanks Dave!Kevin He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

M’s daughter, was aware that he had signed an advance directive — a document detailing his end-of-life preferences — let alone that it was available at his primary care physician’s office, a few miles away. This uncomfortable scenario will sound familiar to most health care professionals. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

For a discipline so fundamentally altruistic, health care is oddly dysfunctional around relationships. Our full article describing social capital, its roles in health care, and strategies for building it in health care organizations is available here (PDF).

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