Health Care We Want to Pay For
This post responds to a question posed by Adam Hartung of the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management (LinkedIn). Earlier post versions replying to him are in Forbes (forbes.com/health-care-reform)...
View ArticleOperations Knit Together Tactics and Strategy
On this blog, Tom Bigda-Peyton has posted two thoughtful pieces about strategy and tactics. See Do Tactics Generate Strategy and Do Tactics Generate Strategy Part II. In today’s post, I’d like to...
View ArticleThe Long March for Right Stuff in a Health Model—Part 2
In the first post in this “Right Stuff for Health” series, we looked together at the crisis of overhead in a medical delivery process aimed at non-systemic chronic and acute care. This high-cost...
View ArticleImproving Safety, Quality and Productivity Together
Many manufacturing companies tackle safety, quality and productivity improvements separately. It is common to separate safety and quality functions from production. A manufacturing operation,...
View ArticleFinancial System Safety and Resilience Policy
Our aim at the CAS this October is to increase the diffusion and dissemination of whole-system wicked problem assessment and action across safety-reliability-resilience in varying settings. The first...
View ArticleEconomic Ecology Makes or Breaks Financial Systems
For December, the Center for Adaptive Solutions will be offering several posts to explore alternatives to the “business as usual” economy. My post today grows from two comments made here and here on...
View ArticleWinning on Health and Economics for Real
For the past several years, I’ve allied with a team working to adapt the US healthcare system to serve both population health and regional economic health. Here’s the current picture… The US Centers...
View ArticleIt’s Fall – Time for Talking Turkey about Healthcare…
We need to talk about healthcare, the role of funding, the need for healthcare teams, and core infrastructure from workplace culture to technology. Parts of this post began as a comment in Employee...
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