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The Business Efficiency of Integrity

Mills Scofield

Last year, in a discussion on the paradox of integrity, trust and vulnerability with John Hagel, Saul Kaplan, Mike Waite , President of Menasha Packaging Corp. Character Culture Efficiency Innovation Integrity John Hagel Leadership Menasha ORBIS Respect Strategy accountability'

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

In Beyond Collaboration Overload , Babson professor Rob Cross solves this paradox by showing how top performers who thrive at work collaborate in a more purposeful way that makes them 18-24% more efficient than their peers. The Power of Trust : How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It by Sandra J. Blog Post ).

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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan and Michael E. The center will then tie the cost to patient-outcome measures, which will enable it to design a system that improves the quality of outcomes, motivates efficiency and improved capacity utilization, reduces costs, and assures patients and providers that any cost improvements will not reduce the quality of care delivered.

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Making Sense of Our Very Competitive, Super Monopolistic Economy

Harvard Business Review

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. Firms concentrate on what they’re good at, adopt new technology, and deliver products and services more efficiently. The fear of being overtaken pushes firms to innovate.

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When Generalists Are Better Than Specialists, and Vice Versa

Harvard Business Review

After all, every innovation somehow recombines or reimagines things that already exist. For example, researchers Sarah Kaplan and Keyvan Vakili found that recombining ideas from one domain of specialization, as opposed to multiple domains, led to more novel innovations in the area of nanotubes.

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How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes. We believe that the United States should pursue both strategies. Aggressive supply-side reforms.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. Every Mayo value-improvement project tests one or more innovations for improving the value of care.

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