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Virginia Mason Medical Center (Spanish version)
Bohmer, Richard; Ferlins, Erika M.Case HBS-608S03Service and Operations Managementhow to institute a production model in health care.Starting at €8.20
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Virginia Mason Medical Center (Abridged) (Spanish version)
Bohmer, RichardCase HBS-614S01Service and Operations Managementhow to institute a production model in health care.Starting at €8.20
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Defining Your Operating Model: Make IT a Strategic Asset by Developing a Clear Vision of the Role of IT
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3592BC-EService and Operations ManagementMany firms have not addressed the key question of how they want to profit and grow, and how IT can help create their platform. IT savvy firms, on the other hand, clarify what they are trying to do with IT by defining an operating model. In this chapter, Weil and Ross look at IT systems as tools for integration and standardization of business processes rather than an end solution. Using examples of companies like P&G, PepsiAmericas, and ING Direct...Starting at €8.20
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Revamping Your IT Funding Model: Extract More Value from Your IT Investments
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3593BC-EService and Operations ManagementWith the average firm spending over two thirds of its IT budget just on maintaining operating systems, it's vital that companies begin rethinking how they track and manage their IT funds. In this chapter, Weil and Ross provide extensive guidelines on how companies can compose an effective IT funding model. They stress the importance of establishing IT priorities and monitoring the risks and rewards of current and past investments. This chapter wa...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Digitized Platform: A Journey to Increased Value from IT
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3594BC-EService and Operations ManagementAs your company begins to expand, whether domestically or internationally, it is important that standardized systems are organized for all branches to maintain efficiency. To do this, your company has to build a digitized platform which focuses on three main areas: a shared IT infrastructure, consolidated data centers, and enhanced IT governance. In this chapter, Weil and Ross outline four stages of organizational learning that must take place in...Starting at €8.20
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Allocating Decision Rights & Accountability: Elements of Effective IT Governance
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3595BC-EService and Operations ManagementEvery firm, at some level, needs a digitized platform, or integrated set of electronic business processes, to operate effectively. The only way to deliver a digitized platform--and superior business value from IT--is to design IT decision rights and accountabilities so that daily decisions about IT support the firm's strategic goals. In this chapter, the authors explain the importance of transparency in IT governance and describe how a firm's gov...Starting at €8.20
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The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Inc.
Bohmer, Richard; Bradley, Stephen P.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-610014-EService and Operations ManagementThrough its uniquely proactive approach to medical malpractice risk management, the Risk Management Foundation has decreased claims-and premiums-for the Harvard hospitals it insures. The RMF is the captive medico-legal insurer of the Harvard medical institutions and affiliated physicians. Over the last two decades, through a combination of active legal defense and medical error prevention, The RMF has successfully controlled the medico-legal cost...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Orthopaedics at Rittenhouse Medical Center
Bohmer, Richard; Huckman, Robert S.; Bozic, Kevin J.; Weber, JamesCase HBS-607152-EService and Operations ManagementConsiders the issues associated with running multiple business models--a private practice and an academic faculty practice--within the confines of the orthopaedics department of a single medical center. Students assume the role of Neela Wilson, Executive Director of Rittenhouse Medical Center, in managing the operational requirements of, and organizational tensions created by, these competing models. In analyzing the case, students have the oppor...Starting at €8.20
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Partners In Health: The PACT Project
Bohmer, Richard; Friedman, JoshCase HBS-608065-EService and Operations ManagementPartners in Health is a Boston-based, not-for-profit that provides health care to people in some of the poorest regions of the world, including Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda, and Peru. In 1998, PIH established a program (PACT) in Boston to bring care to AIDS and TB patients who were not well served by existing care delivery systems. Describes PIH's programs in the developing world and the way in which lessons learned in these countries informed the desig...Starting at €8.20
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Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Bohmer, Richard; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-609088-EService and Operations ManagementHow will Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) preserve its private practice tradition while remaining effective and competitive in a healthcare industry demanding increasing integration between physicians and hospitals? This is the decision facing Newton-Wellesley Hospital president Mike Jellinek in 2009, as several trends-higher costs and lower revenues, shifting workforce demographics, and changing reimbursement models-threaten to disrupt NWH's orga...Starting at €8.20