Other. As Nate Silver, author of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t, points out, ice cream sales and forest fires are correlated because both occur more often in the...
The key point here is that large companies typically fail at disruptive innovation because the top management team is dominated by individuals who have been selected for delivery skills, not discovery...
The job that an EHR is designed to do is a systemic job, not a local one. It is designed to enable different providers in different locations to see what kinds of care other doctors and institutions h...
The fact that hospitals and physicians' practices are not job-focused, but instead aspire to do anything for anybody, has caused them not to be integrated correctly. In their current configuration, th...
The authors, academics from Northeastern University, Harvard University, and the University of Houston, concluded that Google Flu Trends had wildly overestimated the number of flu cases in the United...
Probably the most daunting challenge in delivering growth is that if you fail once to deliver it, the odds that you ever will be able to deliver in the future are very low.
People often think that the best way to predict the future is by collecting as much data as possible before making a decision. But this…is like driving a car looking only at the rearview mirror-becaus...
People often think that the best way to predict the future is by collecting as much data as possible before making a decision. But this is like driving a car looking only at the rearview mirror—becaus...
People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole. It’s
On the surface, the Mayo Clinic is organized around the specialties of the doctors, like many other health organizations. But really, the main organizing principle is a process to get the right things...
On the other hand, the shortage of primary care physicians is so severe that 43.7 percent of the 21,885 residency positions in internal medicine in 2005 were filled by graduates of foreign medical sch...
New products succeed not because of the features and functionality they offer but because of the experiences they enable. If
My purpose in writing this book is simply to offer my witness that being a member missionary can be a source of deep happiness. It need not be hard. You will pull wonderful friends into your life beca...
Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.
Meanwhile, expecting expensive institutions to become more cost efficient, and asking expensive professionals to take pay cuts while squeezing in more and more patients, are not viable avenues for mak...
It’s impossible to have a meaningful conversation about happiness without understanding what makes each of us tick. When we find ourselves stuck in unhappy careers—and even unhappy lives—it is often t...
In your life, there are going to be constant demands for your time and attention. How are you going to decide which of those demands gets resources? The trap many people fall into is to allocate their...
In sustaining circumstances—when the race entails making better products that can be sold for more money to attractive customers—we found that incumbents almost always prevail. In disruptive circumsta...
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. After decades of watching great companies fail over and over again, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is, indeed, a better...
Identifying disruptive footholds means connecting with specific jobs that people—your future customers—are trying to get done in their lives.