Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. Not everyone, however, is onboard yet, because part of the value-based equation is that hospitals will be paid less to deliver better care. How the Health Care World Will Change.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Among the many changes ushered in with the new health care law is the shift to value-based purchasing, which ties a system’s Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to the quality of the services it provides. These broad drivers are, in fact, common to most of our clients across the health care industry. A Case in Point.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality System Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. Leading Change in Health Care. Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

we fret that our health care system costs too much. But, given the structure of health insurance, the question should not be “Why are prices so high?” The lack of price sensitivity on the demand side of the health care market cannot but influence strategies on the supply side. health care system.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

More and more health care organizations are beginning to track their performance on outcomes – and they’re finding that getting started isn’t easy. So how are today’s health care leaders implementing outcomes measurement in their hospitals and clinics? Leading Change in Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Long-term Committee 8

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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Health Care Core Competence Media 15

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.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

It brought the idea of building a safer health system to the forefront of the public’s mind. Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety.

Innovation 8

Innovation Health Care Operations Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

I have worked on research that has found that a strong company culture is associated with lower levels of myopic decision making, better productivity, and innovation. Such misplaced optimism potentially masks underinvestment in technology needed to keep up with the competition. Corporate culture. Creative accounting measures.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

health care are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) — networks of doctors, hospitals and usually payers banded together to rein in costs by providing higher quality, better coordinated care, with primary care doctors central to the process. Among the current remedies for U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Organization Incentives Metrics 8

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. By most of these metrics, the care compared well with others in the industry — but this wasn’t showing up in the overall satisfaction scores. But for a patient, the experience is anything but.

Innovation 8

Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Physician burnout is a growing problem for all health care systems in the United States. Burned-out physicians deliver lower quality care , reduce their hours, or stop practicing , reducing access to care around the country. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Leverage Technology. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Compliance Licensing System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Over the past two decades, the leading sectors’ performance on various digital labor metrics — such as the share of tasks involving digital tools and the number of new digital occupations — rose eightfold, while the rest of the economy barely ran in place.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The algorithms, software and massively parallel architectures underlying the Jeopardy -winning technology's design are undeniably important, he says. Tomorrow's technologies are increasingly about their ability to learn from you and your ability to effectively train them.

Core Competence 13

Core Competence Human Capital Technology Health Care 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. Leading Change in Health Care. Our clinical partnerships allow us to offer academic expertise in a lower-cost setting, an excellent value for consumers as they shop for health care services.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. The delivery of primary health care in the United States is ripe for disruption. When Innovation Is Strategy.

Industry 8

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

However, for people working on creative tasks — where innovative, non-standard solutions are needed – results showed that a large percentage of variable pay hurt performance. Most top managers need to be innovative and creative, open to learning about change, and developing new solutions for non-routine problems.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. This philosophy has started to take its toll.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? Kaiser Permanente believes that as health care becomes more consumer-oriented, the digital experience becomes a key differentiator. The metrics also changed. The changes happening in consumer behavior, technology, and media are redefining the nature of creativity in marketing.

Creativity 12

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

President Obama has stumbled in the implementation of his signature health care reform idea, the Affordable Care Act. It would be ironic indeed if a presidency that won because of information technology (effective digital campaigning) is laid low because of information technology (a website that failed to work).

Management 8

Management Real Estate Information Technology Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Imagining the same ad for a healthcare provider in 2018, even an innovative provider, is a stretch. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. These are all very different strategic needs requiring different implementation approaches and performance metrics.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Strategy Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants a preliminary framework in place by the end of this summer, with a final set of guidelines ready to go in February 2014. Critical industry sectors from energy and banking to transportation and health care answer to different government agencies or regulators.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

Organizations worldwide are increasingly using design to drive growth and innovation. A notable example I witnessed was when a VP of R&D was bent on using a new machine technology that made ingredients inside a package look twisted like a chocolate and vanilla soft serve ice cream.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Software B2B Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Google and Intel rely on experts in social science and biomechanics to develop transformative products by better understanding how people think about and use technology. What metrics are used, and are they reasonable? How well does the organization convert a plan or an initiative into well-defined, S.M.A.R.T. objectives and timelines?

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. What the Experts Say.

How To 8

How To Bond Discount Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Many adult health care outcomes are shaped in childhood. Current models of pediatric primary care do little to address these “non-medical” causes and consequently have been largely ineffective in preventing adult disease. Reforming primary care pediatrics therefore has great potential for improving overall U.S.

Health Care 9

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Advances in data analytics give us the ability to look at large populations and precisely segment their needs and new technologies such as tele-medicine give us the capabilities to deliver customized experiences at scale. The Future of Health Care. Capabilities are made up of people, processes, and technologies.

System 8

System Self-aware Business Model Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

Combine traditional machine learning metrics with fairness measures. The performance of machine learning classification models is typically measured using a small set of well-established metrics that focus on overall performance, class-level performance, and all-around model generalizability.

Sample 9

Sample Project Self-aware Training 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

health care’s movement away from the traditional fee-for-service system to one that is based on value, paying providers on the basis of the quality of outcomes achieved for the money spent. Consequently, care providers will continue to be under tremendous pressure to change. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

However, the problem with this approach (what I call the doing approach) is that it competes on race-to-the-bottom metrics: low cost, high volume, and speedy delivery. A metal best known for its electric conductivity is now becoming known for its antimicrobial properties in health care. When the U.S.

Cooper 13

Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 13