Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

In my 20 years of researching and teaching innovation, one consistent theme stands out: breakthrough innovation often comes from outsiders. To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

They start by sharing the “Seductive Seven” which is a list of common tactics organizations may use to respond to problems: More technology. For example, we can see data dashboards, organization charts, spreadsheets, new strategic plans, or the latest new technology trend bouncing around social media. The Seductive Seven. More money.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

By doing so, they are testing the limits of the potential power of repurposing online retail innovations that consumers have become accustomed to in varied industries and potentially revamping healthcare in the process. Healthcare innovations like these raise intriguing possibilities. Consider the case of Proteus Digital Health.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Increasing value in health care is a top priority for health systems, payers, and policy makers across the globe, as health care costs continue to escalate and consume an ever-greater proportion of national expenditures. Taking the Pulse of Health Care Transformation.

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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

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. Health care is woefully underengineered.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Historically, multinationals innovated in rich countries and sold those products in poor countries. Reverse innovation is doing exactly the opposite. It is about innovating in poor countries and selling those products in rich countries. Reverse innovation is also a significant learning opportunity for students in engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., Leading Change in Health Care. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. In marketing, we resolved to fuel that innovation, and also to make our own efforts as creative and valuable as the products coming out of our R&D labs. Go to new places. Shape the market early. Invite others in.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. At athenahealth, for example, we have a rules engine with 40 million billing rules (yes, there are that many ways to be denied) that enables us to execute our clients’ work more efficiently than they ever could alone. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2011

I think they'd benefit from a quick look back at a failed innovation Google quietly DNR'ed. It offers a sobering reality check for anyone who believes that great people, great skills, great wealth, a great brand, and a great opportunity invariably lead to great innovation, They don't. Not even for Google. Nothing much happened.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

ISRO’s success is best characterized as frugal engineering. ISRO used indigenous components and technologies that are far cheaper than foreign imports. Indian engineers cost less, for sure. Converting these non-consumers into consumers will require breakthrough innovations — quality products at affordable prices.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The size and layout of a room, whether a bed sits in the middle or against a wall (even which wall), how much space is maintained for patients to walk versus how many beds or operating equipment can be accommodated, have not been considered predictors of health outcomes in the past. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

The presence of these women would imply that science, engineering, and technology (SET) industries welcome women. Even as these women blast open doors and blaze trails, new research (PDF) from the Center for Talent Innovation shows that U.S. The fact is, senior female leaders in SET industries are still too few and far between.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. In marketing, we resolved to fuel that innovation, and also to make our own efforts as creative and valuable as the products coming out of our R&D labs. Go to new places. Shape the market early. Invite others in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

But A123's sad story holds another lesson that the politicians are ignoring: Rebuilding an industrial commons — the R&D, engineering, and manufacturing capabilities needed to turn inventions into commercial products — is difficult and expensive once you have let it erode.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

health care system, a new wave of analytics and technology could help dramatically cut costly and unnecessary hospitalizations while improving outcomes for patients. The Leading Edge of Health Care. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Photo by Matthew Payne. Insight Center. Ongoing U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In the past, an abundant and growing labor pool was a powerful engine of the world economy; today, the number of workers is starting to decline in many countries. Boosting the productivity of health care is essential, given how fast this sector is growing. Innovation in health care is transforming the sector.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. For a nurse or an x-ray tech with 10 or 20 years of experience, delivering health care is a routine. For me, the point of his story was simple but profound: empathy is the engine of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Customer expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Companies across sectors facing global competition and rapid technological change are continually struck with such strategic surprises. In health care, for example, a recent scenario effort I worked on helped a leading hospital realize that the future may be more patient-driven, with consumers taking control over their health data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics. The Launch.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 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. Welcome to the dawning era of social innovation, in which more people aspire to tackle old problems in new ways with new tools.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Head over to read a blog by engineering and mining expert, Roberto Casula , for some key statistics on the US oil and petroleum industry. Health care sector. Health care is a particularly fast-growing sector for several reasons, but particularly because we are living longer than ever before. Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! Alfred Eisenstaedt/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The difference: if you’re an American entrepreneur inside one of the country’s hotbeds of innovation, you’re more likely to succeed. While these leaders seem to grasp that entrepreneurship and innovation are the best path to job creation, they’re not doing enough to support the folks who headquarter their businesses outside the superhubs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

They will fail not because AI is all hype, but because companies are approaching AI-driven innovation incorrectly. Already, evidence suggests that early AI pilots are unlikely to produce the dramatic results that technology enthusiasts predict. Unfortunately, most of these efforts will fail. Most companies started online divisions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Meanwhile, the alternative — housing subsidies, unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, even incarceration costs — generate huge social costs. A study conducted by Innovate + Educate , which uses research-based strategies to address the U.S. For women, the spread 10 years out is 16%.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

health care landscape. This problem is likely to get worse as personalized medicine becomes more common, more patients get to choose between competing private health plans, and employers shrink the coverage they offer employees in order to reduce their labor costs. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Americans are both undertreated and overtreated in a health care system that wastes up to $1 trillion a year and delivers profoundly uneven quality: Current estimates indicate that preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Information technology has come late to health care delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It was a week before a big innovation conference in Australia in which I was set to debate the negative side of the question: “Would innovation make the world a better or worse place in 2050?” This was innovation all right – an innovation-induced wasteland. Can we make health care more accessible and affordable?

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