Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination First page First Previous page ‹ Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 … Next page › Last page Last Payers to Hospitals: Enough Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, the second largest commercial health insurer in the country, is sending a strong message to hospitals about their prices. That message is: “enough.” Thoughts from Ken Kaufman CEO Q&A: OhioHealth's David Blom on Innovation “Finding those points where there’s common ground is where you can really make some progress.” Kaufman Hall: What is your system’s most innovative program today? David Blom: Our... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The Second Response to Disruption When any disruptive force appears to threaten the physical wellbeing of patients—or the financial wellbeing of hospitals and physicians—the understandable first response is to push back. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Creating the Future “Companies never choose to die, and yet many by not evolving are enabling that kind of fate.” Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The Fresh Eyes of Disruption When people didn’t return video rentals on time, Blockbuster saw that behavior from the perspective of a movie-rental company—as a problem to be fixed with late fees and changes to the... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The New Reality of Healthcare Scale This week, four game-changing healthcare deals were announced within five days. Despite different characteristics, these deals demonstrate a common message: that a whole different level of scale is needed to survive and thrive in the new market realities of healthcare. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Healthcare’s Last Mile Amazon is experimenting with same-day delivery by drones, delivering packages inside your home even when you are away, and eliminating traditional check-out from retail stores. These... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The Store Is Not Dead, but the Status Quo Is Numerous parallels can be drawn between retail and healthcare. Like healthcare, retail is beset by converging forces, including large-scale disruptive competitors, intense pricing pressures, and an ever-mounting need to optimize efficiencies Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The 2018 To-Do List for Healthcare Providers Amazon has redesigned the process of shopping by focusing on its simplest components: enter the store, take your items, and leave. It has isolated the most frustrating components—checkout and payment—and used sophisticated computer vision and machine learning to make them invisible to the consumer. The Amazon Go store is a relatively small-scale experiment that will teach Amazon more about how retail can be reimagined. We can expect that Amazon’s lessons from this experiment will be applied on an increasingly broader scale. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Lower Forever “Lower forever” is a term used inside oil giant Shell to describe future oil prices. Not “temporary downturn” or “entering a new cycle,” but “lower forever.” The demand for fossil fuel... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Now, Near, and Far: A Lens for the Internet Economy It is tempting to disparage Blockbuster, Borders, and other companies that have suffered highly public business disruption at the hands of the internet economy. From the comfortable... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The Amazon Pinball Machine The ability to create and grow ecosystems is a fundamental principle for success in the internet economy. The imperative to create an immersive ecosystem, where the consumer can interact independent of location or a particular device, has made the line between digital and physical environments increasingly irrelevant. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Pagination First page First Previous page ‹ Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 … Next page › Last page Last
Payers to Hospitals: Enough Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, the second largest commercial health insurer in the country, is sending a strong message to hospitals about their prices. That message is: “enough.” Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
CEO Q&A: OhioHealth's David Blom on Innovation “Finding those points where there’s common ground is where you can really make some progress.” Kaufman Hall: What is your system’s most innovative program today? David Blom: Our... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The Second Response to Disruption When any disruptive force appears to threaten the physical wellbeing of patients—or the financial wellbeing of hospitals and physicians—the understandable first response is to push back. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Creating the Future “Companies never choose to die, and yet many by not evolving are enabling that kind of fate.” Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The Fresh Eyes of Disruption When people didn’t return video rentals on time, Blockbuster saw that behavior from the perspective of a movie-rental company—as a problem to be fixed with late fees and changes to the... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The New Reality of Healthcare Scale This week, four game-changing healthcare deals were announced within five days. Despite different characteristics, these deals demonstrate a common message: that a whole different level of scale is needed to survive and thrive in the new market realities of healthcare. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Healthcare’s Last Mile Amazon is experimenting with same-day delivery by drones, delivering packages inside your home even when you are away, and eliminating traditional check-out from retail stores. These... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The Store Is Not Dead, but the Status Quo Is Numerous parallels can be drawn between retail and healthcare. Like healthcare, retail is beset by converging forces, including large-scale disruptive competitors, intense pricing pressures, and an ever-mounting need to optimize efficiencies Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The 2018 To-Do List for Healthcare Providers Amazon has redesigned the process of shopping by focusing on its simplest components: enter the store, take your items, and leave. It has isolated the most frustrating components—checkout and payment—and used sophisticated computer vision and machine learning to make them invisible to the consumer. The Amazon Go store is a relatively small-scale experiment that will teach Amazon more about how retail can be reimagined. We can expect that Amazon’s lessons from this experiment will be applied on an increasingly broader scale. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Lower Forever “Lower forever” is a term used inside oil giant Shell to describe future oil prices. Not “temporary downturn” or “entering a new cycle,” but “lower forever.” The demand for fossil fuel... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Now, Near, and Far: A Lens for the Internet Economy It is tempting to disparage Blockbuster, Borders, and other companies that have suffered highly public business disruption at the hands of the internet economy. From the comfortable... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The Amazon Pinball Machine The ability to create and grow ecosystems is a fundamental principle for success in the internet economy. The imperative to create an immersive ecosystem, where the consumer can interact independent of location or a particular device, has made the line between digital and physical environments increasingly irrelevant. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman