Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. You may find it necessary to bring in professional facilitation if you are running into excessive resistance or acrimony. In economics, trust is a mechanism of efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. Is the U.S. naïve? It’s puzzling. Qualcomm, despite its stronger technology, lost out, because the U.S. As for why the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Consider that the basis for the health care market’s inertia — the resistance of the incumbents to changing the volume and direction of the money flowing in the current system — is counted in trillions of dollars. For more about innov ation in health care delivery, see NEJM Catalyst , a new resource from NEJM Group.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

When I ask this question at my leadership seminars, participants inevitably reply with a host of answers – one-on-one meetings, social events, email, and so on – all of which, by the way, are absolutely correct! Every fiber in your body will want to go there,” he said, “but resist the temptation. There is some very good news here.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

The power of focused attention to craft a strategy or discuss an especially challenging issue with videoconference is much more efficient for everyone involved. The openness and focused attention among team members fostered by videoconferencing enables innovation and creative solutions to emerge. Engagement and Understanding Improve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

He had recently commented on a discussion on GHDonline.org regarding critical gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. As GHDonline’s rapid growth and success have demonstrated, they can indeed be a valuable tool for improving the efficiency, quality, and the ultimate value of health care delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. Competition and customer demands mean that the most efficient and effective process should always be sought — but finding it requires contributions from the people doing the work. That's a good question.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

What seemed like an efficient conversation or decision process can suddenly feel slowed or even stalled as the objections are discussed. In a recent HBR article, Robert Verganti argues that criticism is imperative for innovation. Opposition is necessary, but people typically don’t like it and resist it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. Competition and customer demands mean that the most efficient and effective process should always be sought — but finding it requires contributions from the people doing the work. That's a good question.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I'm all for this — we need this kind of innovation — but green jobs are hardly the economic cure-all they are often made out to be. Additionally, this change can positively affect employee morale and productivity, as well as company efficiency and profitability. People resist disrupting the status quo.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

High scorers on Critical Thinking are constantly identifying ways to improve productivity or efficiency, drive sales, reduce costs, etc.; Most Criticizers may initially resist offering solutions, as they have drawers full of solutions that were ignored in the past and may be reluctant to share their problem solving expertise in public.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Second, because it’s centralized, which makes it resistant to change and vulnerable to systems failures and attacks. But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. Third, it’s exclusionary, denying billions of people access to basic financial tools. Here, blockchain is a real game changer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

We measure how quickly leaders can implement and overcome resistance to change. In the 1960s and 1970s, we embraced participative leadership ; in the 1990s, we were lured by the learning organization. It’s simply more efficient. I’m asking because I want to use your time and my time efficiently.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Over the months that followed, more than one billion people participated in a “reboot” of the country’s financial and monetary system. India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Why has it been so hard for health care organizations to improve outcomes and efficiency, despite their best intentions? In this context, their efforts to improve care have focused largely on raising the volume of the discrete services they provide, with “efficiency” gauged in terms of “throughput.”. Flying blind is dangerous.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care. Provider workload.

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