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A thousand engagements. One method. Written down.

Everything on this site comes out of forty plus years of business analytics and profit improvement work, and the parts of it that come from somewhere else are cited.

Bradley W. Petersen

Bradley W. Petersen

Forty plus years of business analytics and profit improvement work, most of it spent inside operations rather than describing them from outside. The ten profit leaks are not a framework assembled from reading. They are the places the work kept finding money, across enough plants, hospitals, and practices that the pattern stopped being a coincidence.

That practice built the benchmarking platforms behind more than two thousand hospital and health system clients, and trained more than fifty thousand professionals. The ten profit leaks came out of that work rather than out of a framework, which is why they are stated the way they are.

The 8M Institute builds the method into something your team owns and runs. The capability transfers. The results stay.

He is the author of Stop the Line, which is free on this site and is the long form of the argument.

Methodology heritage

Where the method was worked out.

These are organizations the underlying analytics and profit improvement practice worked with over four decades. They are named as methodology heritage. They are not 8M Institute clients, and nothing on this site should be read as saying they are.

Healthcare

  • Mayo Clinic
  • Cleveland Clinic
  • Stanford Health Care
  • Ascension
  • Vizient
  • Premier

Consulting and technology

  • Huron
  • KPMG
  • Kaufman Hall
  • McKesson
  • Siemens

Insurance

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • United Healthcare

International

  • UK NHS
  • Australian Department of Health

Other

  • Target
  • Northwest Airlines
  • Husky Oil

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