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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. Investor-owned hospitals rarely have more than three or four layers of supervision between the nurse that touches patients and the CEO.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

They came up with incredible solutions in change management and supporting tools for the human resources side of marketing and sales. Travel & Transportation. In 1987, ZS was employed by a large U.S. corporation to reorganize, redesign, and reallocate U.S. sales force teams. It was the mother of all projects. Communications.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? This was a $1.2

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change. For example, when vets.gov, which simplified the process of enrolling in VA benefits, launched in June, the number of veterans signing-up online for healthcare on a daily basis increased nearly six-fold.

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