Managers have at last got it into their heads that they can no longer rest content with inefficient operations.

经理们最后终于明白不能再满足于低效率的运作。

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Donald Berwick, a Harvard Medical School professor and chief executive of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, says as much as 40% of U.S. medical spending is squandered on inefficient operations and unnecessary overhead.

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Reasons include inefficient aircraft operations and routes that are anything but 'direct'.

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This is hugely inefficient, because pricey late interventions and operations could very often have been avoided with a much smaller investment in preventive care.

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