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How Startups Can Accelerate Their Development

The Horizons Tracker

Further analysis, employing illustrative data from interviews, revealed four mechanisms of causal decision-making that hindered venture gestation, termed as ‘causal brakes’: Devoting time to market research and planning.

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The More Things Change, the More They Don't Stay the Same

Harvard Business Review

Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. A static analysis would end there, rather than asking: and then what? It takes a dynamic analysis to anticipate the kind of effects captured by McKinsey's results. Add a steam drill, and you can fire John Henry.

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It’s Time for Episode-Based Health Care Spending

Harvard Business Review

REBP identifies which provider is in the best position to affect the clinical outcomes and total costs associated with an episode of care; it then assesses (through retrospective analysis of claims data) the outcomes achieved and costs incurred during each episode over a specific period of time (e.g., Leading Health Care Innovation.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For each investment category, the generic critical success factors of time , cost , and quality will be different, requiring trade-offs to be made. Over time, the contents of the portfolio will change, and for any organization, the contents of segments of the portfolio will be influenced by a variety of internal and external factors.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

In Rich’s old, functional “silo-based” process, a marketing person with a new customer opportunity would contact their favorite R&D associate, the regulatory and quality assurance departments, packaging, and the plant. Using these principles Intuit began driving design thinking deep into its culture and operations.