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Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

Most hospitals already operate on the edge of profitability. Jim Champy is a consultant and author. With these increased costs and Medicare and Medicaid payments being reduced to help pay for "health care reform", I don't know the head of a single hospital who doesn't fear red ink ahead.

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Where Have All the Process Owners Gone?

Harvard Business Review

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

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