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Health Care Providers Must Stop Wasting Patients’ Time

Harvard Business

Like many patients, Jess felt her providers were delivering very little quality of care when defined by the one metric that mattered most to her: time. While Jess didn’t get her care at Kaiser Permanente, we are working to improve on this metric. By the end of 2018 it will be 50%.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

Inspired by John Kotter’s dual-operating structure model, we asked all of these employees to maintain their “day jobs” within the established hierarchy, while also using 5-10% of their time to work on fast-cycle, informal innovation projects across silos. More than 600 were selected.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. On January 21, 2018, the teams faced off against each other in their Conference Championship.

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How to Make Your Post-Merger Reorg a Success

Harvard Business

This momentum is continuing into 2018 with the bidding war for UK media company Sky ($24–$30 billion) and Microsoft’s $7.5 From the $68 billion CVS-Aetna deal to the $27 billion merger of Microsoft and LinkedIn , 2017 set records with more than 50,000 deals , valued at $3.7 billion acquisition of GitHub.

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Why There’s No Such Thing as a Corporate Entrepreneur

Harvard Business

That’s not true of public companies, where quarterly metrics are scrutinized by analysts, and activist investors can buy up large stakes and push for change. In a January 2018 survey conducted by Innovation Leader, the #2 agenda item among innovators in large companies is “how to spur cultural change and risk-taking.)

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model.

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What Retail Can Teach Health Care About Digital Strategy

Harvard Business

Imagining the same ad for a healthcare provider in 2018, even an innovative provider, is a stretch. These are all very different strategic needs requiring different implementation approaches and performance metrics. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum.

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