Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Yet, more than 50 years after Peter Drucker devised the term knowledge worker, it is quite disappointing to peer inside the operations of any large organization and see how little of their time knowledge workers actually spend on higher-order thinking tasks. The Future of Operations. No underlying systems programming logic is touched.

Case Study 8

Case Study Software Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Patients deemed sick enough to be admitted to the hospital spent hours in the emergency department “boarding,” or awaiting transfer to an inpatient bed that was already occupied, further burdening already insufficient resources. Health Operations Organizational culture' Leading Health Care Innovation: Editor’s Welcome.

Health Care 8

Health Care Ishikawa Lean Manufacturing Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Ideally, data for many measures should come directly from the patient (for example, the severity of hip-related pain one year after a hip-replacement operation). Whatever audience you choose, make the choice early — it will greatly affect how you present the data, the language you use, and the look and feel of your published products.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Audience Report Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

When strategy execution moves too far away from the initial strategy, the link between the plan and reality is broken, resources are wasted, and the organization lacks guidance. Certain project leaders at IBM started an initiative to build a community of web fans, i.e. early adopters of the web, that would subsequently transform the company.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

However, despite these massive resources and C-level attention, all this corporate venturing seems to be failing to accomplish strategic innovation goals. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Even with persuasive evidence for implementation, the third question for providers, already stretched thin by clinical and other work responsibilities, is how will they the find the time and resources to experiment with the growing list of digital tools?

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Strategy Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Second, employers “in-source” accountability for health care services to Human Resources as a “benefit” rather than a service to be procured to maintain the health, well-being, satisfaction, and productivity of their workforce. Learnings from these early adopters can jump-start the efforts of others.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Once it determined what was working and what wasn’t, Albert scaled the campaigns, autonomously allocating resources from channel to channel, making content recommendations, and so on. In other words, the system allocated resources only to what had been proven to work, thereby increasing digital marketing ROI.

ROI 14

ROI Tools Marketing CRM 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. While there have been successes, our climate, water resources, oceans, forests, soils and biodiversity are all increasingly threatened. Changing the System.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. The least digitally advanced countries must allocate limited resources wisely. The most valuable non-American company, 7th overall, was China’s e-commerce giant, Alibaba Group.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The idea was presented to BIDMC’s senior-management operating council and then to the Board’s IT oversight committee. To launch I2B2, the leaders of that effort assembled a coalition of senior IT people, throughout Harvard’s hospitals, who became early adopters.

Health Care 8

Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

We are seeing, as Jack Shafer and others have pointed out, a death spiral in which newspapers react to their loss of readers by cutting back on their news-gathering resources and raising prices, thus making themselves even less attractive to readers. And even if they'd succeeded, their news operations would be endangered anyway.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Business Model Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Back then however, Hughes’s contribution helped mobilize a relatively small portion of volunteers, those already familiar with social media — mainly young people and early adopters. In this article, I review three critical aspects to watch: marketing, operations, and profiling. Take former candidate Bernie Sanders.

Bond 8

Bond Early Adopters Technology Politics 8