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How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality. In order to accomplish this, proposals will largely focus on what is termed “wasteful spending” in health care, spending not associated with improved quality that, by some estimates , accounts for over one-fourth of total health care spending. Insight Center.

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Don’t Blame IT for Obamacare’s Tech Troubles

Harvard Business Review

In my work on complex systems procurement (PDF) and participation in project and program reviews, the only variable more important than the quality of the people doing the work was the integrity of the individuals responsible for governance. These are issues of character and culture, not technology and money. Leadership Technology'

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The Downside of Health Care Job Growth

Harvard Business Review

gross domestic product and public sector budgets that are consumed by health care over the long term, therefore, will require either increasing labor productivity or substantially lowering workforce salaries. With these payment models, providers make more money when they invent more cost effective approaches to delivering high-quality care.

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Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. Toward the end of last year, one of the first platishers, Say Media, announced it was selling off its publishing properties to focus on its technological platform. But these differences are largely cultural.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. households spend 3% of annual electricity budgets on heating water to wash clothes. ” Improving risk management.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Competition in forming accurate forecasts will incentivize such firms to design high-quality, useful forecasts. cities to adapt.

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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

And 55% have dedicated innovation budgets. In 2013, only 8% of the companies in this annual benchmarking survey received a top grade from their customers — and that''s a pathetically low number in comparison to the amount of professed innovation in the industry. Other companies pray that technology can save them.