HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare

<p><b>Prepare for an uncertain future with a solid vision and innovative practices.</b></p> <p>Is your healthcare organization spending too much time on strategy--with too little to show for it?</p> <p>If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of <b>Harvard Business Review</b> articles and selected the most important ones for healthcare professionals to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.</p> <p>Leading strategy experts, such as Michael E. Porter, Jim Collins, W. Chan Kim, and Renee Mauborgne, provide the insights and advice you need to:</p> <ul> <li>Understand how the rules of corporate competition translate to the healthcare sector</li> <li>Craft a vision for an uncertain future</li> <li>Segment your market to better serve diverse patient populations</li> <li>Achieve the best health outcomes--at the lowest cost</li> <li>Learn what disruptive innovation means for healthcare</li> <li>Use the Balanced Scorecard to measure your progress</li> </ul> <p>This collection of articles includes "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter; "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," by Michael E. Porter; "Health Care Needs Real Competition," by Leemore S. Dafny and Thomas H. Lee; "Building Your Company's Vision," by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras; "Reinventing Your Business Model," by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; "Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?" by Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy; "Blue Ocean Strategy," by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne; "Rediscovering Market Segmentation," by Daniel Yankelovich and David Meer; "The Office of Strategy Management," by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton; and "The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care," by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee.</p>