Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Enter Henry Ford, who revolutionized the industry with his manufacturing innovations , lowering the price of cars from $2,000 in 1908 to just $260 by 1925 — an 87% reduction! He didn’t do it by making cars shoddier or offshoring production to low-wage countries. But the most innovative Indian hospitals are doing much more.

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Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

companies were making progress on the operations front, but now they seem to have lost their way—and business schools are in a position to help set them right again. In the 1980s, our organizations learned a great deal about how to improve productivity, quality, and costs from Japanese practices. A few decades ago, U.S.

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Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

costs by using practices commonly associated with mass production and lean production. When it comes to innovations in health care delivery, these Indian hospitals have surpassed the efforts of other top institutions around the world. This innovation has also reduced costs. Innovation has flourished in the U.S.

Health Care 10

Health Care Cost Lean Production Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Supposedly set to launch this July — and then September — New York City announced that its innovative bike sharing program would be delayed until at least next spring. The organizational and operational benefits of targeted testing are not. Until it works, we're not going to put it in. The particular object of his ire?

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Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The Future of Operations. automakers took decades to adopt lean production methods despite the obvious benefits from increased productivity and lower work-in-process inventory. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

As we in the United States juggle major structural and operational changes and try to secure our financial systems as revenues fall, we must keep our promise of safety and high quality to every patient, every time. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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