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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. So this measure may mislabel efficient companies as myopic.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business

Leading organizations are more likely to have a comprehensive data acquisition strategy and differentiate themselves from competitors based on their data platform. For example, automobile insurance companies like Allstate, Progressive and State Farm have launched programs to use connected devices to monitor customers’ driving patterns.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

No strategy is static. These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. Enter ABIe (shorthand for the Allstate Business Insurance Expert), which my firm helped develop. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business

An Adoption Strategy. Here is a basic framework that employers can use to develop a strategy for introducing digital therapeutics. These may be as simple as “reduce year-over-year health care spending” or as specific as “help employees with chronic disease improve medication adherence” Metrics.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business

When care is delivered with less dignity, compassion, or efficiency than it should be the experience can easily be perceived as negative, even if the care is successful in strictly clinical terms. Our health insurance plan had properly notified its members about a new $1,000 copayment for a certain type of surgery.

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