1) What were the performance issues in the 1970s and in what context? What were the root causes that Medtronic nearly lost its leader position in the 1970s and 1980s? Looking initially into the case, it’s possible to see that the major reasons for the drop in productivity and market share of the business resulted from mainly market forces to include increased competition, regulations and product control, and the rapid pace of pacemaker technology in the overall market. Furthermore, Medtronic itself suffered from internal departure of workers (forming new rapid competition/startups), failure in product development (lack of new value and differentiation), and disaster in two major lines of pacemakers. Spin-off and copied pacemaker design and tech pushed out Medtronic’s market position and allowed early adapters and late followers to outperform and innovate ahead of Medtronic’s, despite its first mover advantages earlier in the past decade. Medtronic, through faulty product development mentioned later, produced late entries that were behind in features, compatibility, and even ability to operate/work (leading to uncertainty and fear of implementing any further Medtronic products, thus a 70% market share loss in 1970). With that being said, the major reason(s) why Medtronic suffered various performance issues was its structure in strategy, business making decisions, and product development team architecture. In other words, its’ NPD structure (defined as a Functional Team Structure) failed to adapt and perform with an ever increasing business size, market, and rapid pace of new innovation and design in pacemakers. While mentioned as being the core of success early in the business, it has come to pass as an inefficient system. Manager... ... middle of paper ... ...e breakthrough projects/products. While a Autonomous plan sounds like a better fit due to full dedicated and full time work and focus in major breakthrough/platform projects, the potential shortfalls such as expense, spinning off from core business, and ability to make own processes and procedures. With that being said, the business does need to create a new organizational structure to meet the new market demands and clients. The most effective thing to do would be to implement a Ambidextrous organizational, so that multiple focused business groups (such as Existing and Emerging) with a loosely couple structure (greater network effects, increased flexibility, continued shared adherence to standards/practices and strategies of the core business) to quickly adapt and provide the “new” innovative demand in RF tech and be able to provide more custom customer demands.
Northwestern spends too much on recruiting and education to see a majority of its employee leave before they are able to have a full career as a financial advisor. By paying their employees northwestern is able increase employee productivity, increase the employee’s lifespan at the company, which will increase the number of clients northwestern will have as well.
...and his vision in successfully transforming the medical center to a tertiary care facility. However, in 2008 under Ron Henderson, the medical center expenses began to skyrocket and revenues failed to keep up. Also, a hospital census indicated that, on average, Medicare patients consisted of 58% and Medicaid patients consisted of 18% which caused the medical center to suffer from reductions in reimbursements. Although noted by solid evidence that utilization was experiencing a steep decline, Mr. Henderson added 127 new positions to the medical center. In 2009, Mr. Henderson was fired after the board of trustees realized that this financial bind of an $8.6 million deficit was caused by Mr. Henderson. In order for the new CEO, Richard Reynolds, to succeed at his new job title, he must create a benchmarking process adopting certain goals to remain a worthy competitor.
Payers are consolidating, providers are merging, and both are vertically integrating, creating a new breed of hybrid clinical and risk-bearing customers for Medtronic. Their struggle to effectively manage outcomes and costs exposes a need that Medtronic can address.
Omnicare and Chemed remained closely entwined for several years. In 1982 Chemed became totally independent as a public entity. In its early years Omnicare ran a variety of businesses that generally provided products and services to hospitals. Several general and specific problems made Omnicare's hospital focus problematic. The average patient spent less time in the hospital, and hospital occupancy rates declined rapidly i...
Evolving since the 1980’s, case management, an essential part of quality assurance programs, promotes excellence and efficiency in consumer health care, while conserving costs for health care organizations. Effective case managers answer the demands of changing health in promoting and facilitating a patient’s progression of care (Scott 2014).
Gershon, H., & Pattakos, A., (2004). Creating market opportunities: Innovation is key. Journal of Healthcare Management, 49(1), 9-11.
The objective of paying our employees is to increase employee satisfaction and loyalty. Northwestern sends too much on recruiting and education to see a majority of its employee leave before they are able to have a full career as a financial advisor. By paying their employees northwestern is able increase employee productivity, increase the employee’s lifespan at the company, which will increase the number of clients northwestern will have as well.
According to the Case Management Society of America, case management is "a collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care coordination, evaluation, and advocacy for options and services to meet an individual's and family's comprehensive health needs through communication and available resources to promote quality, cost effective outcomes" (Case Management Society of America [CMSA], 2010). As a method, case management has moved to the forefront of social work practice. The social work profession, along with other fields of study, recognizes the difficulty of locating and accessing comprehensive services to meet needs. Therefore, case managers work with these
Successful health care organizations succeed because their leaders are able to identify technical and adaptive challenges, and then strategically adapt to these challenges. Health care organizations who fail miserably, fail because their leaders do not have the ability to adapt as well as notice the heat temperature boiling in their organization. The harder they push the harder they fall. The health care organization and health care system that most exemplify this failure is Care Group health system and its joint hospitals BID (Beth Israel & Deaconess Hospitals). Beth Israel Hospital (BI) and Deaconess Hospital both started as profitable hospitals; each having their own culture and own business models.
Regional Market: During the 1960’s, the hospital industry boomed with billions of dollars for hospital construction with additional funds for expansion and construction of medical schools. Government sought to reduce health care costs through cutbacks in subsidy programs and cost-control regulations. Innovations in health care delivery severely reduced the number of patients serviced by hospitals.
1. How was Lincoln able to grow and prosper for so long in such a difficult commodity industry that forced out other giants such as General Electric, Westinghouse and BOC? What is the source of Lincoln’s outstanding and enduring success?
WellStar Health Systems is currently the preeminent and largest health care provider in Metro Atlanta. WellStar Health Systems is a not-for-profit institution that is composed of 5 hospitals and an abundance of physician groups. Physician specialty groups included within WellStar are: ENT, Psychiatry, Endocrinology, Pulmonary Medicine, Infectious Disease, General Surgery, Rehabilitation, Pathology, and Rheumatology. WellStar’s organizational design is composed of internal and external factors that define the organization’s size, organizational structure, and processes. Internal and external factors are the basis for influencing managerial conclusions in decision-making. These factors vary from organization to organization and are the rationale for understanding WellStar’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Understanding these variables is a necessity for the sake of WellStar’s survival
The cost of Medical equipment plays a significant role in the delivery of health care. The clinical engineering at Victoria Hospital is an important branch of the hospital team management that are working to strategies ways to improve quality of service and lower cost repairs of equipments. The team members from Biomedical and maintenance engineering’s roles are to ensure utilization of quality equipments such as endoscope and minimize length of repair time. All these issues are a major influence in the hospital’s project cost. For example, Victory hospital, which is located in Canada, is in the process of evaluating different options to decrease cost of its endoscope repair. This equipment is use in the endoscopy department for gastroenterological and surgical procedures. In 1993, 2,500 cases where approximately performed and extensive maintenance of the equipment where needed before and after each of those cases. Despite the appropriate care of the scope, repair requirement where still needed. The total cost of repair that year was $60,000 and the repair services where done by an original equipment manufacturers in Ontario.
Strategic renewal is another desired outcome of corporate entrepreneurship. The new economic order and business environment has created a pace of change which requires businesses to adapt more frequently and rapidly than ever before. The changes could involve corporate structure, mergers and acquisitions, addressing new market opportunities, changing product portfolios, repositioning, adapting infrastructure, or adopting new technology. Managers in an organization must be able to take stock of its situation under changing market conditions and agree on a coherent new strategy that will meet the challenges of the present as well as of the future.
Case Study of Dell Computer Corporation Introduction Michael Dell founded Dell Computer Corporation in 1984 with a simple vision and business concept – that personal computers can be built to order and sold directly to consumers. Michael believed his approach had two advantages: (i) by passing distributors and retail dealers eliminated the markups of resellers, and (ii) building to order greatly reduced the costs and risks associated with carrying large stocks of parts, components and finished goods. Its build-to-order and sell-direct approach proved appealing to growing numbers of customers in the mid 1990s as global PC sales rose to record levels. In 1998, it was already the 3rd manufacturer in the United States with a 12% share of PC market and a nearly 6% share worldwide. The company’s fastest growing market for the past several quarters was Europe.