Publications: Books

Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmstead Teisberg
Based on an exhaustive study of the U.S. health care system, Redefining Health Care lays out a breakthrough framework for redefining the way competition in health care delivery takes place—and unleashing stunning improvements in quality and efficiency. With specific recommendations for hospitals, doctors, health plans, employers, and policy makers, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Teisberg show how to move health care toward positive-sum competition that delivers lasting benefits for all.

Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits
Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson
This book shows you how to implement time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), an easier and more powerful way to implement ABC — revealing inefficient processes, unprofitable products and customers, and excess capacity. The authors also show how to use TDABC to link strategic planning to operational budgeting, to enhance the due diligence process for mergers and acquisitions, and to support continuous improvement activities such as lean management and benchmarking. Kaplan and Anderson illustrate the TDABC approach with a wealth of case studies, in diverse settings, based on actual implementations.