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Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

We have a set of processes created for recognizing success in inherently unpredictable projects — lean product development, customer discovery, discovery-driven planning — yet we consistently fail to apply them.

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India’s Secret to Low-Cost Health Care

Harvard Business Review

costs by using practices commonly associated with mass production and lean production. Moreover, when hospitals consolidate, the motive often is to increase market power vis-à-vis insurance companies, rather than to lower costs by creating a hub-and-spoke structure. Task Shifting. Innovation has flourished in the U.S.