Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2014

In the past, SRM has been focused on lowering costs while maximizing quality, leading to a ‘relationship’ that is either managerial or, at worst, adversarial. Relate Articles: Complimentary Resource – Why IT Struggles to Innovate, and How IT Management Can Fix It.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

High-quality people can make your life miserable when they get into key jobs. This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. Inflate budgets.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. Start by rating yourself 1-10 on the qualities I have listed here. Great leaders are wide open to new ideas and innovation. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Outcome, not task.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2013

words for 2013 – I hope they inspire you to think about and select yours: 1. One innovation helping me significantly is Dragon Dictate for Mac. I have more projects and opportunities than I can say grace over. In my experience, there are very few things more frustrating than the mental nag of a project undone.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In other words, we’re paying people to think, to innovate, and to collaborate with others to produce the best possible results. This process is called commitment-based management, and it will be as powerful for the next generation of managers as quality was for the last. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR''s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We''ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR’s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We’ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding. From a quality and patient safety standpoint, too many healthcare organizations still rely on asking people to be careful, as if those “best efforts” are a way to prevent human error.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Looking at new research on what global citizens have to say about the qualities we want in our leaders, it''s at 180 degrees in orientation from what our summer blockbuster movies tell us about what makes a good leader.”. You''ve heard of "speed dating"?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Health care providers must respond with as much information as possible to ensure appropriate care is delivered, quality and safety are top of mind, and patients and their care team can make thoughtful care decisions. anything that lacks value from the patient’s perspective), improving quality and safety, and controlling cost.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned from three pioneering companies about how to identify, grow and retain leaders to meet today’s demands: Identify: Let them innovate. Both seek to create an environment where employees can pursue innovative business offerings to address problems that are personally meaningful.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

They are convinced that if people can shop freely for the plans they want and insurers must compete actively for their business, everyone will gain: customers will get coverage that matches their preferences, and insurers will become more cost- and quality-conscious than they now are. Not all of these innovations will succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Among the effects: 703 fewer new and competing research projects. noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. Emerging problems are flagged sooner; project leaders present their testing protocols and outcomes; and updated expectations are clearly communicated throughout the enterprise. Crap rolls downhill. Look deeper.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality. In order to accomplish this, proposals will largely focus on what is termed “wasteful spending” in health care, spending not associated with improved quality that, by some estimates , accounts for over one-fourth of total health care spending. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Since achieving first-year sales of $175,000 in 2006, it has increased that number by four orders of magnitude: in 2013, Etsy sold $1.35 cut of sales.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project. As with the G&A project, a steering committee composed of the facility’s senior leaders was formed. It applied the same ground rules and again cross-functional teams were created.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. As GHDonline’s rapid growth and success have demonstrated, they can indeed be a valuable tool for improving the efficiency, quality, and the ultimate value of health care delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

As the 24 th biggest industrial consumer of water, Coca Cola has now invested $2 billion to reduce water use and improve water quality in the communities in which it operates. SabMiller has also invested heavily in water conservation, including $6 million to improve equipment at a facility in Tanzania affected by deteriorating water quality.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. China is projected to spend $113 billion per year on trains and railway infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach. The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Collectively, the UN projects, the less developed regions of the world “will grow 58% over 50 years, as opposed to 2% for more developed regions. Nigeria, in particular (with a population projected to exceed that of the USA by 2050 ), will increase its workforce threefold in the next 50 years.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Every organization needs strategic thinkers. If they haven’t, you should pass on them.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

High-quality, carefully-edited content is great for pulling in an audience. One reason Kickstarter outstripped its competitors was its well-curated selection of genuinely cool projects. Platform and publisher incentives are better aligned when a platform is new. Full disclosure: I have written for The Atlantic.).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Ford invested heavily in digital initiatives only to see its stock price lag due to cost and quality issues elsewhere in the company. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. Innovation and Creativity Emerged Around Digital Payments. Here, the government’s innovative capacity shone through.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Are you stalled in a project at work, waiting on someone else to take initiative to get things moving? The responsibility is yours, and it starts with developing a belief or habit of mind that you, as an individual, are accountable for the quality and timeliness of an outcome, even when you're working with others.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Marissa Mayer’s move to ban working from home at Yahoo in 2013 caused a media firestorm over the costs and benefits of this rapidly growing practice. While many firms that depend on innovation discourage WFH because they want interaction among employees, many occupations have these same characteristics as at Ctrip.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

“Succession between generations is a very risky project,” says Fernández-Aráoz, which is why it’s critical to talk early and openly about rules for advancement and what handing off power might look like. manufacturer of high-quality hooded sweatshirts sold directly to consumers. ”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Orange Is the New Black became an unexpected hit, helping to put Netflix on the map as a creator of innovative original entertainment. Nearly five years ago, a show that followed the lives of inmates in a women’s prison shook up television. Because they can connect content and audiences in ways that broadcasters never could.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Through regular interaction with our global network of value innovators, we at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement ( ICHOM ) have developed a 10-step implementation “blueprint” that any provider can follow. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

It has been a pioneer in applying lean methodology in health care in order to tackle quality and cost issues. By 2013, all eight medical-surgical units in the two hospitals had been converted to the collaborative-care model. Communicate quality. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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