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Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.

Michael Porter

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
A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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Definition Goal Success Target Value
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Company Ideas Try Willing
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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Goal Right Sound Start
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
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
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
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Ability Change Constant Continue
I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it’s the best perch… because most of my work crosses boundaries.
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Boundary Government Medicine Teaching
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.
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Activity Choice Competition Deliver Different Unique
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
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
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.
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Accomplishment Limitation Strategy Yourself

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