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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business

One proposed solution for this is to change the payment model of our health care system from the predominant fee-for-service (FFS) model, which reimburses services regardless of outcome, to a value-based model in which outcomes are reimbursed. Most health systems will need to manage a multitude of reimbursement methodologies.

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Gorillas in our Midst

Tom Spencer

We are bombarded with information at all times and it simply isn’t possible for the human brain to process it all. This article was written by Shishir Pandit , Editor and Deloitte Strategy Consultant, and Matthew O’Sullivan, President of the Global Consulting Group at Melbourne University. Management Consulting'

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business

We in the West have long prided ourselves on our business process acumen, strategy savvy, and customer centricity while stereotyping Chinese competition as being nothing more than low cost. As a result, we have missed China’s transition from displacer to disruptor. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. There are three very common shiny objects that derail customer success efforts in the early stage: Process improvements to issue routing, issue classification, and automated responses seem reasonable.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

While America has continued leading the world in terms of investment in basic science research, it has lost the ability to do the kinds of process improvements that are essential for innovation. While few SMMs entertain offshoring strategies, they do, increasingly, compete globally. We understand that this is difficult.

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How Good Companies Become Market Leaders (Without an Infusion of Capital): Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

After eight years of service, I left and worked at a couple of commercial nuclear power plants and earned a project management certification and a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt, along with my engineering degree. But what I really enjoyed doing was – I’m really kind of that in-between guy.