Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Discipline I.

System 98

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Discipline I.

System 85

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

Deming Institute

AUGUST 31, 2017

We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. Tom Johnson, an economist and self-described “recovering management accountant,” is well known for his early contributions to the traditional accounting profession. Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders.

Management 28

Management Kaplan Activity Based Costing Deming 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

A “value management office” can greatly enhance an institution’s ability to improve outcomes and costs across the enterprise. It makes much more economic and operational sense to create and leverage a central cadre of professionals than to ask each clinical unit, on its own, to acquire such expertise.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

To understand how to address these concerns, an academic team from Harvard Business School brought together a group of orthopedic surgeons from the Boston Shoulder Institute and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a Boston-based insurer, to create a new BP model focused on patient value. The bundle incorporated the metrics in two ways.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care How To Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

These efforts were part of the providers’ quest to increase the value of their care delivery — in other words, achieve better outcomes at the lowest-possible cost. Unfortunately, fewer than 20% of patients had completed both pre- and post-operative surveys.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Tommy was a director and Jane was the Midlands regional sales manager for Egan & Sons, a supplier of doors and staircases to Westmid for 63 years. But he could not shake his newfound awareness of the amount of money Egan was losing with Westmid — the account's ratio of operating income to sales was a negative 28%.

Case Study 14

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14