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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. New market disruptive – a cheaper, more accessible, and worse-performing product that turns non-consumers into customers.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. Furthermore, the operating managers cannot take their eyes off day-to-day operations to focus on innovation.

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