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Pfizer’s Straight Talk on Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Pfizer people care. They embody our humanity and innovative spirit, and are determined to tackle some of the most pressing health care challenges of our time. People are more committed and loyal to an organization that is ethical. Developing this ownership culture will be key to our success.

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3M’s SVP of HR Kristen Ludgate on a Better Way to Attract Top Talent

HR Digest

As we continue to bring our culture to life in our operating model and our HR practices, we continue to use surveys, crowdsourcing, focus groups and other tools to ensure our people are heard. From there, we used a grassroots cascade to bring the elements into our teams, empowering all 3Mers to define how they would bring the culture to life.

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Task Shifting Could Help Lower Costs in U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

This simple idea — that one should match the skill level of the individual to the skill requirements of a task — has influenced how many businesses operate. The task shifting logic also applies to health care. health care. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work.

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Current Neuroscience Understanding Related to Psychology and the Theory of Knowledge

Deming Institute

He discusses habits and that “95% of the time we operate on auto-pilot.” Our morality, our ethics are all emotion driven. It is full of connections to many important ideas people need to understand to adopt better management practices in general and Deming based management practices in particular. We think emotively.

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It’s OK to Move Down (Yes, Down) the Value Chain

Harvard Business Review

Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. Leading Change in Health Care.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies. Experimentation is vital.