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bestselling author of five books, a renowned management consultant, and a seasoned entrepreneur.
Health Care: The Simple Solution by CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN
When it comes to reform, we should drop the public-private debate. The way to cut costs is to put care and insurance in the same bed
BusinessWeek, March 4, 2010
I have spent much of my professional life studying innovation. Twelve years ago some friends suggested that the struggles of our health-care system were essentially problems of managing innovation. Instead of studying health care to reach conclusions about health care, as others have done, they suggested examining the industry through the lens of innovation.
Along with two physicians, I recently wrote The Innovator's Prescription. My co-authors' work, and my forays into health care—I've had diabetes for 30 years, suffered a massive heart attack, and am now in chemotherapy for lymphoma—informed our perspective. Our key conclusion: The cause of runaway health costs is malpractice, but not the medical kind. Rather, we're guilty of business model malpractice on a grand scale. Most caregivers in our system bring great talent and commitment to their patients. But the systems in which they work compromise quality and push up costs.
Read more at BusinessWeek
Clayton Christensen On Innovation
A Solution to School District Budget Cuts
In the May 29, 2009 article, "L.A. Unified School District cancels bulk of summer school programs," the Los Angeles Times...Steven Spear On Competition
If Toyota struggles with complex products, who else too?
Over the several weeks that stories about Toyota have unfolded, we’ve reflected that if Toyota, the most aggressive learner and the technological leader in the auto industry, was struggling with the complexity of its products, then who else with what else? Two articles in the Wall Street Journal suggest this may go from a Toyota issue [...] Related posts:- If stress of expansion and technology leadership strains Toyota, who else by how much?
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Blog Posts
The real state of disruptive innovation in healthcare
Posted by ippisl on March 4, 2010 at 10:56am
Tylenol recall of 2010
Oh boy – the Tylenol recall of 2010 is beginning.
This time, it's more than voluntary - the FDA has sided against lobbyists for once and initiated a recall of multiple Tylenol products, along with other Johnson and… Continue
Posted by GimsonY on January 21, 2010 at 12:06am
Are You in the Right Collaboration Environment?
More than team building and management.
Collaboration is, to me, about the division of labor (as the word's etymology implies) that leads to cooperation toward a common goal. There are two models of collaboration and team-building that I believe speak to the spirit of consensual cooperation.
One is Christensen's model of consensus-driven cooperation*. From that view, the effectiveness of collaboration depends on how well one executes two factors. The first is to correctly iden
… ContinuePosted by Demetrios Perdikis on January 14, 2010 at 8:30am
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