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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

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. Align Systems ).

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

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. Align Systems ).

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The Transformed Map of a Recovering Management Accountant

Deming Institute

We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. He is a proponent of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge and especially of a whole-system ecological view of enterprise. The focus must be on managing work activities as components of an ecosystem.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business Review

An example of this are new EU Regulations focused on identifying systemically important data institutions (SIDIs) – an implicit recognition of the growing importance of data valuation to firms and nations alike.

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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. But the very existence of these cross-subsidies is symptomatic of deep flaws in the health care reimbursement system. The actionable cost savings from process improvement.

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Lessons from Mayo Clinic’s Redesign of Stroke Care

Harvard Business Review

At the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Stroke Center Practice, we conducted a project to design and deliver care more customized to the needs of individual patients while reducing cost and resource constraints. However if one could predict a patient does not need such care, this could save the system, as well as payers, a lot of money.

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Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office

Harvard Business Review

While leaders of many care organizations may be fearful that a new centralized staff function would add to corporate overhead and bureaucracy at a time when they are trying to reduce expenses, becoming adept at the delivery of value-based care requires capabilities that provider organizations currently lack.