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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

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. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

Cost increases of about $400mm are expected to be offset by other synergies in the two separate companies at the end of 2017. The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. Some leadership teams inhabit these models as though they are second nature.

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How One CMO Revamped Her Role

Harvard Business

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. ” Like many of the CMOs described in the 2017 article, she was initially hired to focus on downstream commercialization roles, such as overseeing advertising. And they have significantly more impact.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

The metrics also changed. The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. The results?