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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

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Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. We in the West have long prided ourselves on our business process acumen, strategy savvy, and customer centricity while stereotyping Chinese competition as being nothing more than low cost. They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices.

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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

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If these strategies don’t have their desired effect, it could be a sign that you need to make a dramatic move , Johnson says. This made me more people-focused than process-focused, but it allowed for process improvements in the best way possible, by enabling people to excel.” ” Consider a career change.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

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In March of 2016 we expanded the refund program system-wide to include all patients and all forms of patient individual financial responsibility (copayment, coinsurance, and deductible). The goal must be a global patient engagement strategy. Geisinger’s approach consists of both cultural evolution and new processes.

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