Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The medical literature increasingly offers potential solutions to the inefficiencies that rob patients of physicians’ time and attention, including delegating lower-expertise tasks to non-physician team members, improving the design of the electronic health system, and greatly reducing the paperwork bureaucracy that adds little or no value.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Certainly, those transaction costs have to be balanced against the drag created by bloated bureaucracy, and the soul-crushing work that characterizes too many companies. Know-how and other assets carefully built over years or decades are destroyed. But it is a cost nonetheless. That’s not to say big companies should go it alone.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

These observations suggest an interesting opportunity for making health care better, and even more efficient – if health care organizations can figure out how to create an “epidemic of empathy.”. What would an epidemic of empathy look like? The time for such an epidemic has arrived.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Google and Intel rely on experts in social science and biomechanics to develop transformative products by better understanding how people think about and use technology. They feel unappreciated by management and powerless in dealing with the administrative bureaucracy of partner organizations. Organizational Development Book.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

But for old-school bureaucracies, it’s a scary new world that requires managers to rethink the basic principles that govern established businesses. From health care to handbags, no industry is immune. Or is mobile app development considered peripheral and non-essential? (If

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Productivity in the United States’ health care industry is declining — and has been ever since World War II. health care system’s $3 trillion in annual costs. The Future of Health Care. Westend61/Getty Images. The rest is spent in front of computers, performing administrative tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Stinson''s challenge is common at big organizations, but overcoming bureaucracy and breaking down silos is especially critical in healthcare. Her idea went into the pipeline before the hospital''s own innovation fund was set up, but with outside funding she set out to develop and test an iPhone/iPad-based pain diary.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. What is their commitment toward literacy, social services, health care, the environment, multicultural diversity and other key issues that really create a better life?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. It's easy to bemoan the stifling bureaucracies that characterize some large companies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

From a negotiation perspective, I’d advise Democrats to leverage many of these developments to energize their base with an eye to the 2018 midterm elections. A complete repeal would entail taking health care away from some 20 million Americans, many of who voted for Trump, which would be practically and politically disastrous.

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