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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. Yet, despite their stated enthusiasm, hospitals have been notoriously slow to adopt digital innovations. health care system.

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What Markets Do and Don’t Get About Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others. Why the market values some kinds of innovation better than others. Costs are concrete and immediate. Four types of disruption.

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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

By contrast, for corporate innovators each idea needs to carry its own weight. Ideas with positive discounted cash flows get investment. And yet no provision was made to cover the cost of the inevitable failures. Innovation Project management' Three companies end up taking 60% of all investment dollars.