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Using Experiments to Launch New Products

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To see how this can be valuable, consider how Uber rolled out its Express Pool service in 2018. In 2018, in the run-up to the launch of Express Pool, Uber tasked one of us (Duncan, who manages a group of economists and data scientists within the company) with assessing how likely it was to succeed.

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Using Technology to Improve Rural Health Care

Harvard Business

In addition, we’ve programmed our EMR to integrate uniform, evidenced-based treatment guidelines into every provider’s workflow, decreasing unnecessary variation and allowing nurses to work at the top of their licenses. As a result, our time to optimal control of hypertension fell from 110 days to 40.

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A Simple Way to Involve Frontline Clinicians in Managing Costs

Harvard Business

Early-stage planning is under way to introduce the methods in other regions in Scotland, beginning in 2018. The following tools constitute the basic building blocks of the value-management system. The box score. The visual management board. This links the box score to a small set of targeted improvement projects (see the example below).