Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

One of the great frustrations of being a middle manager is that senior leaders make decisions that go against what you would have done had it been up to you. If — deep down — you don’t feel that senior management makes good decisions, it’s probably time to start looking for another job. Dorie Clark.

Peer Review 17

Peer Review Review Self-aware Middle Management 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Indeed, even before organizations started talking about the need to “engage employees,” many managers appeared to regard motivation as something individuals brought with them to work — a characteristic of people they hired. Many innovators also have problems with authority and a predisposition to challenge the status quo.

Emotional Intelligence 15

Emotional Intelligence Diversity Review Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

America is a nation of innovators and entrepreneurs. At the foundation of our approach is a knowledge-management system — an electronic archive of Mayo Clinic-vetted knowledge containing evidence-based protocols, order sets, alerts and care process models. This knowledge is updated in real time and made widely available.

Health Care 9

Health Care Mayo Insurance Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Lead by example.

Products 9

Products Productivity Peer Review Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

More than two-thirds of large businesses now offer disease-management programs , but most of these are bricks-and-mortar services that can be converted to better-studied, cheaper, and more effective digital therapeutics. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Cost structure.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Technology Peer Review 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Before addressing that question directly, let’s start with some basic premises: Consumers need an ample choice of innovative, well-priced insurance products. The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.”

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. One service, called UpToDate , employs 6,300 physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers to manually review the most recent medical information to produce synopses for practicing doctors. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. We have already begun to go down this road.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Peer Review Information 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For example, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk enjoy cult-like status and are widely regarded as modern tycoons of innovation. My focus was on peer-reviewed journal articles (academic papers) that included reliable measures of CEO attributes (e.g., This is particularly true when it comes to leaders and entrepreneurs.

CEO 8

CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

And during times of organizational crisis or change, dominance may be needed to manage various stakeholders with opposing viewpoints. If a marketing team is charged with creating an innovative new advertising campaign, for example, a prestigious leader can release the constraints on team members and encourage them to think outside the box.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Peer Review Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This dispersion of practice makes it more likely that a surgeon today may be the only one to perform certain procedures in a given geographic region (particularly outside of large cities) and that innovative ideas, tips, and best practices may arise from outside of the traditional academic “hubs.” ” Enter social media.

Media 9

Media Skills Conference Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Most companies put innovation at the top of their agendas. But how many devote the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October.

Innovation 8

Innovation Core Competence McKinsey Armstrong 8