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The Missing Ts: Four Key Dimensions of Strategy 31 Jul 2013 | 07:48 pm
If you don’t have a structured way of driving your choices through the four Ts — transparency, targeting, trust and trim — you’re headed for T as in trouble. These four key dimensions have two things...
How to Fail at the Next Health Care 4 Jun 2013 | 11:16 pm
The Next Health Care calls for very different strategies and tool sets. Many systems are acting as if they read a manual on how to do it wrong. How many of these critical strategic and tactical mistak...
The Ghost of Steve Jobs and Your Bottom Line 19 Mar 2013 | 07:54 pm
The progeny of the iPhone and the iPad will change the shape of every healthcare institution — and their balance sheets — in ways that are hard to imagine.
Untitled 17 Feb 2013 | 12:03 am
The very forces creating a better, cheaper and more available health care industry also can be used to create monopolies, raise costs and degrade care. Which future strategic model will prevail? Which...
Why Health Care Is Reshaping Itself 30 Nov 2012 | 02:12 am
Costs and revenue: This is the oxygen of any business, any organization. What are your revenue streams? How much does it cost you to produce them? If you don't get that in-out equation right, there is...
What’s the Business Plan for Serving the Poor? 26 Sep 2012 | 05:45 am
Despite the reform, the tide of the helpless will continue to grow, and the resources to help them will shrink. How will you manage it? You cannot manage the future of your institution without a good ...
What healthcare must learn — from a chain restaurant 11 Aug 2012 | 02:01 am
Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right for Half the Cost says: Healthcare must rebuild all processes. Atul Gawande now dramatically shows how to do it.
Building the Buildings of the Next Health Care 25 Jul 2012 | 06:21 am
A hospital that spends more upfront on evidence-based design will soon reap the payback in better outcomes. It was some doctor show on cable: Nurse McCarthy bustles into the hospital room, says “Good...
Cliffhanger — and the beginning of the Next Healthcare 29 Jun 2012 | 03:07 am
What a cliffhanger! It is an historic decision, found on the narrowest possible grounds, with a majority agreeing on the result, but not broadly on the reasoning. Effects: The principal effects of th...
Healthcare Futurist: Supreme Court Can’t Stop Healthcare Reform 20 Jun 2012 | 11:23 pm
click image to buy the book [Press Release] Sausalito, Calif., June 20, 2012 — With the Supreme Court’s decision on the healthcare reform act expected within the week, both hope and fear are building...
