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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business

Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Transforming Health Care Delivery to Increase Value - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business

Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps. Four key outcomes to transforming healthcare: Lower entry barriers and increase geographic reach to improve access to care. Sensitivity to operations.

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

Harvard Business

At Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare , ensuring the alignment of all these things to provide extraordinary care requires a constant regimented focus across our 23 hospitals, 170 clinics, and 850,000-member health insurance plan. On the business side, the escalation process has provided improved visibility into operations.

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The Best Senior Teams Thrive on Disagreement

Harvard Business

To explore this question, over the course of six years, we surveyed senior-most leadership teams 99 times at companies representing a variety of industries, including financial services, food and beverage, energy, technology, healthcare, and retail. We expected to replicate the importance of cohesion in this unique context. We were wrong.

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business

operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Consider, for example, a surgical patient who starts in the pre-operative area, then moves to the operating room, the post-anesthesia care unit, and the inpatient floor, with occasional side trips for imaging, testing, and physical therapy.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. In three years the progress is impressive, especially in the healthcare sector. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries.

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