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Gaining Clarity in What You Care About Most Deeply in Your OD Work

Consulting and Organizational Management

Gaining Clarity in What You Care About Most Deeply in Your OD Work By Carter McNamara on December 2, 2012. The profession has become filled with niche players……executive coaching, team building, process improvement, change management, etc. Guest Writer Submissions. To Subscribe to a Blog. I love that type of project.”. “On

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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business

In addition, we believe that in order to deliver on the promise of improved health and reduced spending, VBC must be augmented with a structured approach to eliminate waste and be delivered in conjunction with a broad-based effort to address factors that are outside of the traditional boundaries of healthcare.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). Someone else designed an experiment to get a plant operation down to zero accidents.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. Companies would like to see process improvements and better infrastructure at the border to reduce costs to import. Multinationals are heavily pushing for either minor tweaking to the agreement or a modernization of NAFTA.