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If a strategy meets a goal: It’s working. If a strategy meets a target: It’s a success.

Michael Porter

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.
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Basic Care Failure Health Need Patient
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.
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Competition Economy Face Generation Structure Weakness
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Choice Different Strategy Yourself
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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Goal Right Sound Start
Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.
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Cost Discussion Energy Fight Low Opportunity Technology Wonderful
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.
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Creation Definition Economy Global Production Profit Purpose
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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Economics Innovation Issues Prosperity
If all you’re trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it’s unlikely that you’ll be very successful.
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Rival Success Try Yourself
If your goal is anything but profitability – if it’s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – you’ll hit problems.
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Big Goal Leadership Problem Profit Yourself
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they’re mutually reinforcing.
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Consistency Direction Each Other Improvement Strategy
Health care historically has been a very siloed field that’s organized around medical specialties – urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth – and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.
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Health History Medicine Organization Patient Service
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
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Ability Change Constant Continue

If a strategy meets a goal: It’s working. If a strategy meets a target: It’s a success.

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