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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business

The tradeoff, however, is that we’ve become so focused on using the technology (as this HBR article points out) that we spend far less time listening to individual human stories. We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Set up post-interaction NPS so you can tell if someone is still upset even after an issue is “solved,” start tracking the volume and quality of requests coming in along with metrics relating to revenue (i.e., Establish models, not just metrics.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

This data can then feed into a predictive model, helping us know with precision the actions that are going to accelerate adoption of a new practice, process, or behavior by a given employee group. Developing these sorts of metrics will not be quick or easy. Establishing reliable data sets with which to work takes time.

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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

While experimentation is focused on learning strategic or process improvements, it is equally important to manage the pace of learning through apprenticeship. In a culture of apprenticeship, people receive high levels of on-the-job coaching by others who are higher in skill. Systematically manage apprenticeship.

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

Harvard Business

Candidate centers must provide information including detailed clinical protocols, surgical-patient selection criteria, clinical registry participation (more on that below), information on multidisciplinary shared decision-making, as well as institutional and physician-level performance metrics.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

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Great Digital Companies Build Great Recommendation Engines

Harvard Business

In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. Platform companies invest in virtuous cycles to solve problems; more-traditional firms invest in process improvement to solve problems. What metric matters more: engagement or inquiry?