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This case describes how Jos de Blok, CEO of Buurtzorg, a non-profit home healthcare provider in Holland, radically overhauled home care delivery in Holland. He believed in giving responsibility back to those who knew the job best: nurses.
Reference 6194
Published 30 Jan 2017
Length 4 page(s)
Region Europe
Industry Medical Devices
This case describes how Jos de Blok, CEO of Buurtzorg, a non-profit home healthcare provider in Holland, radically overhauled home care delivery in Holland. He believed in giving responsibility back to those who knew the job best: nurses.
This case describes how Jos de Blok, CEO of Buurtzorg, a non-profit home healthcare provider in Holland, radically overhauled home care delivery in Holland. He believed in giving responsibility back to those who knew the job best: nurses. He created an organization without managers or hierarchy, which put the patient at the centre and was based upon the concept of self-managed teams.
Reference 6194
Published 30 Jan 2017
Length 6 page(s)
Region Europe
Industry Medical Devices
This case describes how Jos de Blok, CEO of Buurtzorg, a non-profit home healthcare provider in Holland, radically overhauled home care delivery in Holland. He believed in giving responsibility back to those who knew the job best: nurses. He created an organization without managers or hierarchy, which put the patient at the centre and was based upon the concept of self-managed teams.
Executives in heavily regulated industries, such as Healthcare, often feel their hands are tied by rules and regulations which some claim to even interfere with their ability to innovate. As such, it is not uncommon to find regulated firms competing in the same way for decades without ever challenging the status quo.
Reference 6013
Published 20 Dec 2013
Length 5 page(s)
Topic Strategy
Region Europe
Industry Medical Devices
Executives in heavily regulated industries, such as Healthcare, often feel their hands are tied by rules and regulations which some claim to even interfere with their ability to innovate. As such, it is not uncommon to find regulated firms competing in the same way for decades without ever challenging the status quo.
The case "Rehability (B)" illustrates how one firm created a blue ocean of new market space in the highly regulated and competitive German healthcare industry in the early 1990s.
Reference 6013
Published 20 Dec 2013
Length 9 page(s)
Topic Strategy
Region Europe
Industry Medical Devices
The case "Rehability (B)" illustrates how one firm created a blue ocean of new market space in the highly regulated and competitive German healthcare industry in the early 1990s.
The case documents the evolving characteristics of the contact lens market, driven by rapid technological innovation. The introduction of disposable contact lenses has transformed this business from a low-volume high-margin market space to a high-volume low-margin one.
Reference 5318
Published 12 Jan 2005
Length 8 page(s)
Topic Operations
Region Europe
Industry Medical Devices
The case documents the evolving characteristics of the contact lens market, driven by rapid technological innovation. The introduction of disposable contact lenses has transformed this business from a low-volume high-margin market space to a high-volume low-margin one.
