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Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.

Michael Porter

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
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
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Best Myself Strategy Teacher
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
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Ability Change Constant Continue
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
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 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
Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It’s not a matter of being better at what you do – it’s a matter of being different at what you do.
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Better Competition Different Started Yourself
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
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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Definition Goal Success Target Value
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
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
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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Goal Right Sound Start
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.

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