Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

These are the conclusions I’ve come to after spending most of my life so far either leading others or advising, coaching, developing and observing leaders. The drive for results and the humility required to ask for help and give it when asked led us to where we are today with, as I write this, health care workers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Physician discontent over deteriorating working conditions and growing risks to patient care has risen to alarming levels in European hospitals. To understand physicians’ evolving reality, Bain’s biennial Europe Front Line of Health Care Survey tracks European practitioners’ attitudes, priorities and decision-making power.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Image courtesy – Shutterstock ) Employees leave for many reasons, and while some include personal conditions like health and relocation of the family, there are many that pertain to the organization. This could include health benefits, time off, retirement assistance, etc. How to Improve Employee Retention?

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2015

Organizational transformation is the complex endeavor of redesigning the organization which significantly impacts all or most aspects of the business. Per the 2014 McKinsey research study of 1323 companies involved in organization redesign, less than a quarter of those transformation efforts succeeded.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Businesses that are serious about reducing health care costs — and improving the health and well-being of their employees — should take a serious look at digital therapeutics, which have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases and their consequences. Insight Center.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Employee engagement is defined as the emotional commitment an employee has for a job or organization, which then drives their performance. Results range from happier customers to higher profits and stock prices, to lower health care costs. Skill Set Development. Support for Continued Education.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

In the early 1980s I had the opportunity to work as a consultant in several of America's largest organizations. They enjoyed incredible job security, great benefits, lifetime health care, and guaranteed pensions. This trend has continued throughout the organization, from vice-presidents to directors. and not hit anyone!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

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HR Digest

MARCH 8, 2020

The organization has an in-house remote racker management training program. is a software company that develops software for financial, accounting, and tax preparations for small businesses, accountants, and individuals. It offers Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. United Health Group. Intuit Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

health care system. The reason: It could liberate health care data for game-changing new uses, including empowering patients as never before. Let them share it with whomever they wish in the course of their own health care journey. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

At Sanford Health, a $4.5 billion rural integrated health care system, we deliver care to over 2.5 Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Developing Prescriptive Algorithms. Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science. Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

health care system spends almost a third of its resources — $750 billion annually — on unnecessary services and inefficient care. These tools are now being used across the continuum of care, from disease surveillance to chronic disease prevention to identifying patients who are at risk of deterioration.

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HR Digest

JULY 14, 2021

Employees working for ten years or more have likely developed core skills in a specific discipline, and if they want to make the transition to the C-suite, they need to expand their knowledge. The London Business School’s Executive MBA focuses on knowledge and bringing about change in their organizations and influence the same everywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

Voice-powered technologies such as Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and Cortana, are changing the way people shop, drive cars, and manage their homes. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Organ transplant. Hayon Thapaliya for HBR. households by 2022.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. In our group at Merck, we are witnessing this opportunity firsthand as we collaborate with start-ups in the areas of digital health, big data, and health IT.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenge that we face — making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people — is not unique to health care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But it wasn’t until recent advances in the technology that people really began to take notice. Software gurus are assessing whether to get into th e development game for 3D printers. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has been around since 1984. Mattel just unveiled a 3D printer for kids called the ThingMaker.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

With providers striving for better outcomes at lower costs, the first half of this century will be seen as a turning point in the worldwide development of efficient, outcome driven, and more personalized healthcare service delivery. Transforming Health Care Delivery to Increase Value. Nobody has a crystal ball.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

When we think of breakthroughs in healthcare, we often conjure images of heroic interventions — the first organ transplantation, robotic surgery, and so on. An estimated 14% of wasted health care spending — $91 billion — is the result of inefficient administration. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Army’s efforts to come to grips with a dramatic upsurge in war-related behavioral conditions over the past 13 years holds valuable lessons for bringing precision mental health care to the civilian world. Innovating for Value in Health Care. million to 3.3 Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. At first blush, it would appear that entrepreneurship is alive and well in health care. Think instead about other industries.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries. Yet, investments in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

They highlight four priority areas for organizations seeking to systematically improve the promotion of women. Before they can make progress, healthcare organizations need to see how well (or poorly) women are represented among their leadership. The Future of Health Care. Quantification. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. Participants then receive monthly support via check-ins with health coaches for an additional eight months. Transforming Health Care. In addition there are 84.1 Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. In fact, this environment is the most disruptive I’ve witnessed in my 35 years in the health care industry. Carol Yepes/Getty Images. But back to the insurers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. health care keeps getting costlier.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5 The system is badly fragmented and clearly financially unsustainable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Few recent trends in health care delivery have more power to improve population health, patient and provider experience, and hospital business models than virtual care. Which technology tools will meet the demographic, clinical, and business needs for these services? Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Let’s hope that’s true for “value” in health care. Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. The question, of course, is whether the term will help spur the fundamental changes that our health care sector so desperately needs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

But in health care, few things work as expected. One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other. Health care’s safety and quality challenges are exacerbated by its procurement problem. How did we get here?

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

I like to share interesting articles (and other resources) that provide examples of organizations applying Deming’s ideas in practice. Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). is a model I believe in.

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