Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Using simple pictures drawn on the back of a napkin, Dan Roam explained American health care, helped Peet’s Coffee earn a billion dollars, and is working with Google to redefine how the world thinks about the internet. Leadership Tip: Great communicators start by asking “What story does my presentation want to tell?”

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 23, 2021

Last week I had the pleasure of spending some extended time online with a group of coaching and leadership development colleagues. You should always consult with your health care provider before making big changes in your approach to health and wellbeing.). With that as background, here are the apps I use every day.

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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. More money.

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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.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 2, 2023

This could include health benefits, time off, retirement assistance, etc. The SHRM study also found that 62 percent of employees reported health care/medical benefits as important job satisfaction components, and 41 percent valued defined contribution plans like 401(k).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These numbers point to a clear need for better representation of female physicians in leadership. Before they can make progress, healthcare organizations need to see how well (or poorly) women are represented among their leadership. The Future of Health Care. Quantification. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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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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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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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.

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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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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 2, 2018

This model isn’t just about getting greater patient feedback during the innovation process. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.

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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

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. Carol Yepes/Getty Images. But back to the insurers.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). Edwards Deming’s process management theory. Its network of twenty-three hospitals and 160 clinics provides more than half of all health care delivered in the region.

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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. The question, of course, is whether the term will help spur the fundamental changes that our health care sector so desperately needs.

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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 3, 2015

More and more health care organizations are beginning to track their performance on outcomes – and they’re finding that getting started isn’t easy. Above all, it requires strong resolve and adept leadership. Above all, it requires strong resolve and adept leadership. Leading Change in Health Care.

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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. Integrate quality data into care delivery. Expand from process excellence to population management. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

In health care, the Hippocratic Oath — “first, do no harm” — can hold as much sway in the board room as it does in the exam room. Among health care leadership, it can have the unintended effect of promoting inaction over change and innovation. health care has become akin to a smothered child—stifled and arrested.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

From a pure business perspective, the greatest value in joining forces is that it makes the pie bigger for everyone and creates more value for consumers in the process. A concrete example comes from within my own company, McKesson, the largest health-care services firm in the US. Entrepreneurship Health Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Technological progress and new digital products have perennially been relied upon for improving operations. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were hailed as a cure to the inefficiency of paper-based systems. But the truth is, tech can often make bureaucracy worse.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Health isn’t the hospital or even the doctor’s office. Health might be a function of nutritious food, clean air, or stress-free work. Advanced Leadership. Advanced Leadership is a different mindset than single-minded leadership furthering its own goals within a single organization. Prototypes are fundamental.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

But with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), CNOs are now expected to master new trends in health care information technologies to engage hospital leaders in strategic discussions about major technology investments. But it’s not just technology causing this learning overload.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Such sleep deficiencies can undermine important forms of leadership behavior and eventually hurt financial performance. This article will explore the link between sleep and leadership before discussing solutions that can improve both individual well-being and organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. Of course, that’s much easier said than done – especially in the public sector, where funding decisions and approval processes trail far behind the tech cycle. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO.

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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. All patients would designate health care proxies. Good end-of-life care is a fundamental component of quality medical care.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As the Institute of Medicine highlighted in a 2012 report , this gap in knowledge contributes to variation in care and suboptimal outcome. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Project DOC was able to establish digital connectivity across traditional primary care clinics, remote (e.g., Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Companies across sectors facing global competition and rapid technological change are continually struck with such strategic surprises. In health care, for example, a recent scenario effort I worked on helped a leading hospital realize that the future may be more patient-driven, with consumers taking control over their health data.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. The translation involves people and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Here’s how Banner Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, did it. Rather than setting savings targets based on the performance of other health systems, they set their sights on realizing a 4.4 All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

An education technology startup hired a sales leader who came from a large, well-respected firm. Poor processes serve customers and manage people badly. Weak leaders at a technology company made a decision to restructure the sales organization using a model from their own past that did not match the current situation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

How do you get people to do what they’re supposed to do, particularly when it comes to following standard processes that are essential to getting their job done successfully? Take health care — more specifically, take washing your hands. And does employee monitoring help or hinder these efforts?

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