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Using the Right Performance Metrics: Watch out for P&Ls

Kates Kesler

Metrics serve as a powerful motivator and unfortunately, are often perfectly designed to drive sub-optimal results. For a simple comparison, consider this sports team analogy. In team sports, measuring vital, non-point metrics and de-emphasizing individual metrics is not a new concept.

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Steps to Redesign Your Customer Experience

LSA Global

Done right, mapping the current customer experience assesses your current organizational culture and allows for a comparison between the experiences people have and the underlying operational processes and systems that substantiate those experiences. This is where the leadership plays an absolutely fundamental role.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

We found that any type of leadership change will result in short-term adverse impacts on a firm’s operational efficiency, but outsider CEOs experienced a clear advantage in productivity gains. Using a 3-to-1 matching of hospitals with no change as a comparison, we analyzed 1,640 firms in all. Enter the U.S.

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How U.S. Health Care Got Safer by Focusing on the Patient Experience

Harvard Business

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies.