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Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners: Lessons from Banner Health

Harvard Business Review

During an intensive 8-week pilot, each team was trained and then it analyzed the cost structure of one function and recommended cost reduction tactics. Resetting a health system’s cost structure also implies greater centralization and standardization, which goes against the grain of local facility leaders and clinicians.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. That said, the way to minimize the impact of discrimination is not through bureaucratic mandates or by playing the diversity card – these tactics increase the diversity gap and heighten resentment.

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