Tom Peters popularized the style of business management in which the manager cruises the workplace observing and interacting.
Tag: innovation
Have you heard the jokes about the incredible shrinking hospital in Decatur, Alabama? Sure, they’re funny. But the reality isn’t a joke to hospitals. Instead, it’s just another interesting detour along the way to what that I’ve described as The Impending Death of Hospitals. If you haven’t yet read my book by that title, follow […]
New York City’s Mount Sinai Health System gets it. Will you? As I’ve written over the past year (see my most recent book, The Impending Death of Hospitals — get your complimentary copy, here) the future of healthcare doesn’t include hospitals as we know them. Surgical cases will move to outpatient facilities and, if you’re […]
Your predators have an easier time spotting your weaknesses when you’re standing still.
Tom Peters popularized the style of business management in which the manager cruises the workplace observing and interacting. He referred to it as “management by wandering around.” The same observational style applied to instances within and, equally or even more so, outside of your specific practice specialty, or business, or industry, provides a tremendous amount […]
Your real competition is an amateur, at least in your perception, someone who realizes that the pieces can be arranged another way, a way that cuts you off, a way that cuts you to the bone.
From the 1950’s through the 1990’s success was about doing what was always done – the actual delivery of care. So the better groups delivered better care. If a group was “broken” the result was that its level of care dipped. The fix was to return it to the standard of working well, that is, […]
As Peter Drucker said, ““Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two–and only two–basic functions: marketing and innovation.”
“Conformity medicine” will result in the death of innovation.
For hundreds of years, innovation has driven improvement in medicine. Innovation in patient care. Innovation in business models. Innovation in treatment.
