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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Types of Consultants - Free Management Library

Consulting and Organizational Management

Recently, the terms “functional” and “focused” have been used to refer to servicing a specific system, function or process, for example, marketing systems, financial systems or information technology. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Facilitation.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

He hoped to create a skunkworks-like culture in the middle of corporate headquarters, blending the benefits of both organizational separation and integration. Several attendees wanted to form a more permanent working group; so they established a nonprofit organization called the Agile Alliance to support the movement.

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