Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

While Amazon’s collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase would obviously leverage the purchasing power of three massive employers and could lead to innovative insurance models, it seems that the bigger opportunity would be in improving how care is delivered to patients. Data analytics.

Health Care 11

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

They’re also more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. It could be because “software development typically requires large upfront fixed costs,” meaning that firms that are already pretty large are the ones who can afford to invest in it. But why are these companies doing so well?

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

We didn't want to burden the organization with fixed costs. Almost everything had to be free, and the few things we paid for had to be scalable so that the unit costs would eventually approach zero. This removed the biggest bottleneck to innovation — us. Software development" and "hardware" are bad words.

Budgeting 9

Budgeting Software Entrepreneur Fixed Costs 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends. So with such a track record of strategic innovation, why has Tesco been blindsided by the hard discounters like Germany’s Aldi and Lidl? Why travel to a supermarket for the monthly big shop if you can buy it online and have it delivered?

Retail 12

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The advantages that hospital systems can derive from scale fall into four groups: Classic economies of scale focus on lowering the cost per unit of care delivered (e.g., Economies of scope can allow hospital systems to leverage their scale to develop new revenue streams. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

As the technology develops, GE could revamp this and other plants into general printer farms supplying all of its manufacturing divisions. That gave it a steadier cash flow to cover the costs of its large fixed cost investments, but did not eliminate the unused capacity of plants dedicated to one kind of product.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

From my experience heading Scotland’s National Health Service from 2010 until last August (and before as its director of health care policy and strategy), I know that such constraints can unleash innovations that will lead to better care — and better health — for communities. Working under a fixed-cost ceiling was, of course, difficult.

Health Care 8

Health Care Constraint Budgeting Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

This problem is likely to get worse as personalized medicine becomes more common, more patients get to choose between competing private health plans, and employers shrink the coverage they offer employees in order to reduce their labor costs. Problems may get worse.

Cost 8

Cost Insurance Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

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. Organizational Development Book. But there are also extrinsic factors that complicate the relationship. Adapted from. Agile Talent. Jon Younger Norm Smallwood.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

Meanwhile, declines in revenue and escalating fixed costs for things like public employee pensions and health care are crippling our cities budgets. In Charlotte, a challenge grant developed a way to improve capital planning and yield lower interest rates and other cost savings.

Short-term 14

Short-term Budgeting Health Care Long-term 14

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

One would assume that if the engines of innovation are working as the hype suggests, Schumpeter’s famous creative destruction would be happening at a rate seldom seen before. The post If Innovation Is Happening, Where Is The Creative Destruction? “Corporate concentration (e.g., shares of the top 1% or top 0.1%

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Creativity Innovation Trends Decentralization 124

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

The radical democratization of business over the last decade created by open innovation, crowdsourcing, and co-creation is transforming how advertising organizations work. Harley helped V&S launch Fan Machine by enlisting its fans to develop a new campaign.

Advertising 10

Advertising Brand Creativity Innovation 10