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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. As part of its effort to use supply-chain methods to obtain the highest quality care for its employees, Intel promptly added procurement specialists to its collaborative.

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Understanding Customers Is Everyone's Job

Harvard Business Review

Going to market effectively these days, no matter what business you''re in, means relating to customers as individuals — even if there are millions of them. retailer Tesco built detailed profiles of customers and then used these insights and a flexible supply chain to customize their products and offers.

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Harvard Business Review

Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. Total losses from those two disasters were very likely greater than the savings companies had won, over the preceding years, by squeezing out costs and making their supply chains so efficient.

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This Coalition of 20 Companies Thinks It Can Change U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The HTA’s self-described goal is “to improve the way corporations provide health care benefits in an effort to create better health care outcomes for their employees” by aggregating its members’ purchasing power and using it to gain additional leverage with care providers. That’s good.

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Do Most Hospitals Benefit from Directly Employing Physicians?

Harvard Business Review

A third apparent motivation was to corner the local physician market in order to obtain more favorable rates from health insurers. Establish a clear strategic goal and a target return on investment. Performance incentives in those contracts should also match the strategic goals established above. Here’s how to do that.

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. This was a notable success — but what if we combined the insights and resources of a life science company and health provider that were both focused on, say, acute cardiovascular diseases? The options are tangible.