Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

“Six Disciplines differs in that respect – it’s all about teaching a system of getting done the things that we all know need to be done.” “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy. ” (Robert Morris, Top 10 Reviewer for Amazon.com).

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CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

health care system. Explanations include their IT departments already have their hands full installing, maintaining, and upgrading electronic health record (EHR) systems. But much of the blame can be attributed to hospitals’ misaligned budgeting and incentive systems. Gillian Blease/Getty Images.

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Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

I’m looking forward to reading it (my copy is on the way) and after I’ve read it I will share more. My friend and colleague Daniel Decker has written a great review of it that I think you should check out.

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Price Porter Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints. Then delving into questions like, how should your business model evolve in light of a changing environment? Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. Take lots of time to promote yourself and actively campaign for a better job.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Consider Porter's value chain. Despite this modularization, managers still relied on one support system to unify a set of seemingly smaller value chains; information.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

He worked as a systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories and served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School. Rumelt received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School in 1972, having previously earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1976.

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Engineering Long-term System Teece 75

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Matt’s team concentrated on developing a system to get aid to remote villages in the heavily-damaged Gorkha region. With Everest closed for the season, the porters who help mountaineers transport their gear during expeditions were suddenly unemployed. Help one family? One village? Damaged roads restricted vehicle access.

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Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Matt’s team concentrated on developing a system to get aid to remote villages in the heavily-damaged Gorkha region. With Everest closed for the season, the porters who help mountaineers transport their gear during expeditions were suddenly unemployed. Help one family? One village? Damaged roads restricted vehicle access.

Innovation 150

Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Funneling health insurance access through corporations just adds one more layer of complexity to a system that is already a complete muddle. Or, as Washington Monthly's Jesse Singal colorfully described it , "Our medical system is an octopus riding a donkey riding a skateboard into a sadness quarry.". Adam Smith 4eva!

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Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

But the very existence of these cross-subsidies is symptomatic of deep flaws in the health care reimbursement system. The new approach produces accurate, detailed, and transparent costs for each care process as well as the cost of all the unused capacity in the system. Kaplan and Michael E.

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Health Care Kaplan Porter Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This approach is nowhere near enough to tackle the pressing problems we all face — water scarcity, low quality education systems, an aging population in some parts of the world, a rapidly growing one in others, and so on. Indeed, I see some of our most vexing societal problems as opportunities for the private sector.

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Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. Today, Porter says, companies must reconnect company success with social progress, not as philanthropy, but as a way to achieve economic success.

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Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In this regard, a closer examination of the value concept confirms its appeal but also exposes the daunting challenges facing health system reformers. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Equally challenging is the lack of data systems to support outcome measurement.

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Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

” — Michael Porter I am pleased that A.G. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Whereas in the [.].

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Charan Rogers Review Porter 75

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

When Netscape Navigator imagined the disruption of Microsoft Windows, it forgot that its web browser was an add-on on the operating system. A great asset in warfare is possession of SWATS (Superior Weapons and Tactics Systems). There is a lesson here for business. Had Netscape had an OS, it might have survived the Microsoft onslaught.

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Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But as Michael Porter and I write in our recent Perspective article in The New England Journal of Medicine , “ Why Strategy Matters Now ,” providers are unlikely to succeed if they cannot focus on this goal. Make no mistake – improving value for patients is hard. Others are following suit.

Health Care 8

Health Care Marketing Strategy Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. The other is the more static, ongoing rivalry that Porter focused on, which seems to have declined since he wrote Competitive Strategy , and which describes most industries. The macro numbers tell a very different story.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. Companies are not squarely to blame for the anger and frustration that have so warped this presidential primary season. Nor are they entirely innocent. The growing economic inequality that polarizes U.S.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions. Consider these examples: 1.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Medical science has enabled our health care system to deliver outcomes that would have been impossible a generation ago, and advances in fields such as genomics and stem-cell therapy offer immense promise to further accelerate medical innovation. We must strive to move beyond our own experiences. Get authentic patient voices in the room.

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies Porter System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

It’s 1969 on this season’s Mad Men, and a glass-enclosed climate-controlled room is being built to house Sterling Cooper’s first computer — a soon-to-be-iconic IBM System/360 – in the space where the copywriters used to meet.

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Porter Price Technology Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

health care system in ways big and small that would either build on or radically revamp the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes.

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Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?

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Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

They may have done a swell $2 million strategy study for a client, but then have to watch from the sidelines as a more broadly based firm swoops in to do the $15 million project — a total systems redesign, say, or a corporate reorganization — entailed in implementing the strategy. Monitor & Co.,

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Welch himself said in 2009 that optimizing a business for shareholder returns is the “dumbest idea in the world.”.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. The industry has unquestionably helped to support the formation of world-changing companies such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, Facebook, and countless others.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. The diversified power management company develops innovative products and processes, such as hybrid electric and hydraulic power trains and electric power control systems, that help customers and consumers conserve resources and reduce their carbon footprint. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E.

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Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

There is a clamor of voices demanding the rebooting of capitalism, from academics (such as Michael Porter) and politicians (like Al Gore) to investors (such as CalPERS) and Occupy''s street activists. The system has lost sight of the point of reporting: to give companies access to financial capital by communicating their value to investors.

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Report Short-term Press Release Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

They institutionalized the use of data collection systems in their manufacturing facilities to understand how products and machines would “behave” and could be optimized. Sound familiar? The Internet of Things may already feel like an overused buzzword, but the value is real.

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Discounted Cash Flow P&L NPV EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. The industry has unquestionably helped to support the formation of world-changing companies such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, Facebook, and countless others.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Throw in a broken education system that's not just unaffordable, but slightly pointless, a frightening tax bill for their parents and grandparents' profligacy, and a global youth unemployment crisis , and it becomes clear why economists are increasingly dubbing today's young a " lost generation.".

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Schiller Porter Fashion Cost 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2011

This problem is as real for consumer-centric organizations as for corporations looking for opportunities to share value beyond their shareholders (as Michael Porter and Mark Kramer recently discussed in the pages of HBR ). For one, it explains why concert venues don't price so high that scalping markets are killed off.

Price 15

Price Porter Early Adopters Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

On the latter topic, check out Michael Porter and Thomas Lee, who lay out a strategy for improving the health care industry. Reforming America’s immigration system came up last night, and is considered by some pundits as one of the few areas of potential legislative action this year. Immigration.

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Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. Over the course of the 30's, a huge population of Americans gained access to the automobile — a technology that made the corner stores' system of last mile distribution nearly obsolete.

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Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

In health care, for example, research indicates a decline in quality when non-profit hospitals switched to become profit making, as Eduardo Porter explained this month in the New York Times. Other objectives can but there is a price to be paid.

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Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Recent studies of the efficiency and effectiveness rates of leading international NGOs and UN agencies have revealed the shortcomings of a system that, over the last half a century, has measured itself on process and not outcome. Take the example of child sponsorships, highly popular as a marketing tool for many NGOs.

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Trends Development Net Present Value NGO 8