The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 1, 2021

. “This longstanding problem is mainly driven by the imbalance between increasing patient flow and the shortage of emergency room capacity,” the researchers explain. “While the ER is supposed to be a safety net of the health care system, the overcrowding problem has strained this safety net and posits various threats.”

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Health Care Efficiency Incentives Resources 82

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The project, undertaken by South African civic technology company Grassroots, is believed to be the first training course delivered entirely on WhatsApp. The course is designed to improve the leadership skills of community organizers. A new project from MIT Governance Lab has tested the platform in an educational capacity.

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Education Storytelling Health Care Content 71

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This failure is not for lack of effort — health systems are making massive investments in new infrastructure, technology, processes and managerial approaches designed to manage change, such as electronic health records, Six Sigma and Lean Management. Make hard decisions without relying on approval from senior leaders.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Technology System 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation How To Video 8

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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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

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. More money.

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Constraint PR Policies Tactics 110

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills. Men and women equally qualified in business drivers around hard- and soft-business skills—with neither gender scoring high. Wellins, Ph.D., Goldman Sachs.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Health Care Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Politics 87

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. These tools are now being used across the continuum of care, from disease surveillance to chronic disease prevention to identifying patients who are at risk of deterioration.

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Tools Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.

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Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 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 we describe as a "health care system" is no system at all. But technology alone will not deliver lower costs and safer care.

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Health Care Champy Information Technology Insurance 15

CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

Health Care 74

Health Care Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Politics 74

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center.

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Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Technological improvements in health care have given us the quality of life we enjoy today. But chronic conditions, end-of-life care, and an aging society will bankrupt the United States if it doesn’t make dramatic changes to its health care system. health care is stuck in the craft mode.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Can reverse innovation — innovations originating from poor countries — provide one important answer? the approach is to spend more money on major technological advances and come up with innovative products and solutions. Most definitely. In the U.S., Poor countries face severe resource constraints.

Health Care 15

Health Care Cost Constraint Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Among the many changes ushered in with the new health care law is the shift to value-based purchasing, which ties a system’s Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to the quality of the services it provides. These broad drivers are, in fact, common to most of our clients across the health care industry. A Case in Point.

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Health Care Quality System Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The pressures for fundamental change in health care have been building for decades, but meaningful change has been limited while the urgency of change only grows. There is only one real solution, which is to dramatically increase the value of health care. And with such deep societal concerns about health care spending?

Health Care 9

Health Care How To Cost System 9

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2011

I think they'd benefit from a quick look back at a failed innovation Google quietly DNR'ed. It offers a sobering reality check for anyone who believes that great people, great skills, great wealth, a great brand, and a great opportunity invariably lead to great innovation, They don't. Not even for Google. Nothing much happened.

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Innovation Health Care Core Competence Media 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

It brought the idea of building a safer health system to the forefront of the public’s mind. Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety.

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Innovation Health Care Operations Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

companies probably assume that their employees have the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their jobs. One global technology company my team works with, for example, discovered that, on average, its sales employees didn’t understand or know about 22% of its product features, even though they believed they did.

Skills 8

Skills How To Learning-by-Doing Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

I and others believe that the recession may have precipitated or accelerated certain long-term changes in employment patterns that will mean slower job creation, lower total returns to labor, higher skill requirements, and issues with income inequality. Technology to the rescue? Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. Sponsored by Optum.

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Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 9

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the “mother speed” of 78-RPM. They’ve changed more than they wish to acknowledge.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In fact, it matters as much or more than a number of other factors associated with successful businesses, like technology adoption. The plants that have adopted these monitoring and incentives-based management practices were far more productive, innovative, and profitable. Management techniques explained 18% of that difference.

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Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 12

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. by Hank Moore.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

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Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. What would happen, he wondered, if Lakeland’s associates brought their hearts to work, as well as their professional skills? It’s a challenging environment in which to be a healthcare provider.

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Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

To meet these challenges, we believe academic medicine must embrace disruptive innovation in its core missions: educating the next generation of health professionals, offering comprehensive cutting-edge patient care, and leading biomedical and clinical research. However, if we emphasize the latter, our mission is durable.

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Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Education 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. Skills management. CRM has three principal objectives: Acquire new customers. Workforce planning. Training and development. Personnel administration.

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Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Customer expectations.

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Mindfulness is now seen as a crucial skill in business. It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. It’s the continuous work of challenging mindsets that enables innovation and insight and leads to improved decision making.

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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Maybe not, at least according to a wave of media coverage pointing to a dizzying array of service innovations on the horizon. Digital imaging technology monitors which items shoppers select from shelves, and when a customer leaves the store, the person’s online account is automatically charged.

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Banking Technology Retail Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

health care are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) — networks of doctors, hospitals and usually payers banded together to rein in costs by providing higher quality, better coordinated care, with primary care doctors central to the process. Among the current remedies for U.S.

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Health Care Organization Incentives Metrics 8