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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, Grainger's senior management team decided to reflect on their history with improvement initiatives before deploying a Lean-based continuous improvement system. Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. Each generation of leaders seems to rediscover process improvement in a different package.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

At first, we worked with RIC as a consultant but then became its partner in 2009. Take Silver Cross’s joint operating committee with RIC, which convenes on a quarterly basis to review Balanced Scorecard metrics on quality of care, patient experience, volume, and efficiency.

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Why the TSA Screening Revolt is Like Poison Ivy

Harvard Business Review

Savage is the author of The Flaw of Averages (Wiley, 2009) and of an HBR article with the same title , chairman of Vector Economics , Inc (VectorEconomics.com), an adjunct faculty member at Stanford and Cambridge, and a frequent lecturer on risk modeling.

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Customer-Centric Continuous Improvement

Harvard Business Review

A third is to offer cutting-edge, technically innovative products and services. In September 2009 the Palladium Group , founders of the Balanced Scorecard, launched "XPC — The Execution Premium Community" for senior strategy professionals worldwide. Did they play to employees' hearts, heads, ears, and feet?