Virginia Mason Medical Center Case 1. What is Gary Kaplan trying to achieve at Virginia Mason? Dr. Gary Kaplan was trying to achieve change at Virginia Mason. He envisioned the transformation of Virginia Mason Medical Center into the quality leader in health care and sought to lead the organization toward this vision. When Dr. Kaplan joined VMMC what attracted him to the medical field was a collaborative team approach and Virginia Masons’ unique culture that was created in the early 1900’s
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efficient method of measurement or control before the introduction of the Balanced Scorecard when people were attempting to use management accounting. After the Balance Scorecard was originally introduced to the world in an article by Norton and Kaplan in 1992‚ for the Harvard Business Review‚ there was not much change in attitudes towards management accounting
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better known as Dr. Seuss‚ is perhaps one of the most beloved children’s authors of the twentieth century. Although he is most famous as an author of children’s books‚ Geisel was also a political cartoonist‚ advertisement designer‚ and film director (Kaplan). He used the power of imagination to produce unforgettable children’s books and helped solve the problem of illiteracy among America’s children. By using his experiences in life as a foundation for most of his books‚ Theodor Geisel created a unique
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market. In recent years‚ many management frameworks have been introduced such as Lynch and Cross (1991) “performance pyramid”‚ Fitzgerald & Moon (1996) “building blocks of performance measurement system”; Neely et al.‚ (2002) “performance prism”; Kaplan and Norton’s (1992) “balanced scorecard” framework;‚ “six sigma” and “value for money” to have a wider view on the company’s needs to compete in the market. Balanced Scorecard (hereafter known as BSC) is a performance measurement system that has
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Germany In Between Dignity and Despair‚ Marion Kaplan describes the everyday struggles of the Jewish people in Germany. From beatings to starvation‚ Jews suffered everything in between. Kaplan makes two main arguments throughout the book‚ that one; women played a very large role in the survival of families‚ and two; non-Jewish German neighbors were oppressors‚ not just bystanders. As a whole‚ the book travels along in chronological order but Kaplan organizes the chapters in such a way where you
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if not impossible exercise. How can we tell if we have met our goals if we don ’t know what our goals are? How do we know if our business strategies are effective if they have not been well defined? The balanced scorecard as documented by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton in the Harvard Business Review article The Balanced Scorecard - Measures that Drive Performance1 describes a methodology used for measuring success and setting goals from financial and operational viewpoints. With those measures
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Somaliland‚ a nation north to the violent and failing state of Somalia‚ is in the midst of “a remarkable political transformation‚”(Kaplan 2008‚ 143)‚ and is described as a democratic state. How does one come to the conclusion that Somaliland is a democratic nation? The first step to answering this question‚ is in defining democracy and the prominent factors which act as conditions nations must meet in order to be considered democratic and then determine if they are applicable to Somaliland. Democracy
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events will notice changes in their environment‚ politics and population. Once you identify with these worldly changes‚ you will begin to equate their impact on our collective future as a human race. The publication of The Coming Anarchy‚ by Robert Kaplan in 1994‚ recognized governments are quickly being converted to “centers of power” and is directly related to environmental changes‚ resource scarcity‚ overpopulation‚ and tribalism. I fully agree with the author’s observations that local populations
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Blades‚ 2003). The third stage is the Concrete Operational Stage‚ which occurs between the ages of seven and twelve. Throughout this particular stage‚ children become less egocentric and are able to see things from another person’s point of view (Kaplan‚ 1998). They are also able to understand "conservation of mass‚ length‚ weight and volume"‚ (Smith‚ Cowie and Blades‚ 2003). For example this means that they comprehend that beakers of varying height and width can hold the same volume of liquid. The
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