Exam readings
A: Strategic key debates and managerial innovations in healthcare
1: Key debates in healthcare (Tayler & Hawley, 2010)
Strategic key debates:
- The politics of provision:
o The state
o The private sector
o The voluntary sector
- Setting priorities:
o Health inequalities
o Health promotions
o Rationing
- Patients and health professionals:
o Patients’ rights
o Professionalism
Need to know:
- Issues, positions + arguments, consequences for healthcare management.
- Current examples
2: Technology and innovation management (Barlow, 2017)
Forms of innovation:
- Product: tangible physical objects
- Service: intangible things
- Process: equipment/method/system
Types of innovation:
Radical innovation: establishes a new dominant design and a new set of core design concepts.
Incremental innovation: refines and extends an established design.
Modular innovation: changes only the core design concepts of a technology
, Architectural innovation changes a product’s architecture but leaves the components unchanged.
Continuous innovation: improves but preserves the current way of doing things.
Discontinuous innovation: cause paradigm shift in science/technology/market structure.
Disruptive
Need to know:
- Distinctions between different types and forms of innovations
- How are innovations adopted and diffused?
- Characterize a given innovation with help of the concepts
3: Disruptive innovation in health care delivery (Hwang & Christensen, 2008):
The theory of disruptive
innovation helps explain
how complicated,
expensive products and
services are eventually
converted into simpler,
affordable ones.
Sustaining innovation: the continual improvement of a product or service that is introduced by
companies over time. Sustain the existing trajectory of performance improvement.
Companies upgrade their products with features much more quickly than most customers
can use them. More functionality than customers need or desire.
Disruptive innovation: new product that is usually simpler, more convenient, and more affordable.
Value proposition a product or service that helps customers get a job done more effectively,
conveniently, and affordably
A: Strategic key debates and managerial innovations in healthcare
1: Key debates in healthcare (Tayler & Hawley, 2010)
Strategic key debates:
- The politics of provision:
o The state
o The private sector
o The voluntary sector
- Setting priorities:
o Health inequalities
o Health promotions
o Rationing
- Patients and health professionals:
o Patients’ rights
o Professionalism
Need to know:
- Issues, positions + arguments, consequences for healthcare management.
- Current examples
2: Technology and innovation management (Barlow, 2017)
Forms of innovation:
- Product: tangible physical objects
- Service: intangible things
- Process: equipment/method/system
Types of innovation:
Radical innovation: establishes a new dominant design and a new set of core design concepts.
Incremental innovation: refines and extends an established design.
Modular innovation: changes only the core design concepts of a technology
, Architectural innovation changes a product’s architecture but leaves the components unchanged.
Continuous innovation: improves but preserves the current way of doing things.
Discontinuous innovation: cause paradigm shift in science/technology/market structure.
Disruptive
Need to know:
- Distinctions between different types and forms of innovations
- How are innovations adopted and diffused?
- Characterize a given innovation with help of the concepts
3: Disruptive innovation in health care delivery (Hwang & Christensen, 2008):
The theory of disruptive
innovation helps explain
how complicated,
expensive products and
services are eventually
converted into simpler,
affordable ones.
Sustaining innovation: the continual improvement of a product or service that is introduced by
companies over time. Sustain the existing trajectory of performance improvement.
Companies upgrade their products with features much more quickly than most customers
can use them. More functionality than customers need or desire.
Disruptive innovation: new product that is usually simpler, more convenient, and more affordable.
Value proposition a product or service that helps customers get a job done more effectively,
conveniently, and affordably
