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Strategy Execution - The Un-Idea

Six Disciplines

Companies operated alone, rather than being part of partner networks or plugging their people into informal relationships. It was an ineffective way to operate, especially after the information technology revolution took place, and to break out of it, companies needed management ideas.

Execution 101
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Value-Based Health Care Is Inevitable and That’s Good

Harvard Business Review

Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence. Health Operations'

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Get Started with Big Data: Tie Strategy to Performance

Harvard Business Review

Opportunities may range from improving core operations to creating new lines of business — even in the same industry. Initially, the marketing and network organizations, rather than cooperate, blamed one another for the findings. Size the opportunities and threats.