Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. But the scale at Intermountain Healthcare, where more than 2,500 huddles occur every morning, makes it especially illuminating and instructive.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Electronic health record systems for large, integrated healthcare delivery networks today are often viewed as monolithic, inflexible, difficult to use and costly to configure. splain2me/Getty Images. The most popular systems are often built around older underlying technologies, and it often shows in their ease of use.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

So unlike your average patient, she described one 12-hour wait in the ER as having a “7% process cycle efficiency.” 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. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Overlooking these realities is perilous, both for the patient’s well-being and for efficient delivery of care. This work cannot happen in a vacuum of forced efficiency. A Way Forward. Medicine is constantly evolving as new ways to treat, heal, and even cure emerge.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

Increasingly available high-quality surgical instruments, greater knowledge of potential complications, and widespread sharing of best practices made surgery more effective and efficient.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth. Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009).

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Or you can join a premium community for advice, guidance, and connections with like-minded people on topics ranging from healthcare to entrepreneurship to art lessons. Identify the right metrics. In the digital membership economy, the metrics best apt to indicate success are more likely to be around member churn and engagement.

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