Healthcare Case Studies
Course Overview
See real-world examples of the SIT method in action. These four case studies show you how organizations have used SIT tools to increase production capacity, reduce antibiotic abuse; create new and differentiated products; and establish an ongoing culture of innovation.
This course consists of 4 modules.
Module 1 -- Maccabi Healthcare Services
Video Case Study
SIT partnered with an HMO to address the issue of overprescribing of antibiotics. They didn’t reduce the number of prescriptions written. They used attribute dependency to reduce the number of antibiotic prescriptions that got filled. See how they did it.
Module 2 -- TEVA Pharmaceutical
Presenter: Shlomit Tassa
See how this pharma company increased production capacity 50% to capture a timely market opportunity…with a little help from SIT and without new capital investment.
Module 3 -- Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashmer
Presenter: Shlomit Tassa
This organization created a culture of innovation using the SIT Three Pillars Model — Results, Skills, and Structure — to ensure that it had a process for developing future leaders in healthcare; for the betterment of their organization; and the betterment of society.
Module 4 — New Thought for Food (No longer offered)
Downloadable pdf
This article provides a great overview of the SIT methodology – its origins, principles, tools, and applications. See how the food industry satisfies its appetite for innovation in a number of cited examples.
Time to complete this reading is 18 minutes.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how SIT tools and methods are used in the real world to solve problems and provide measurable business results.
- Learn how organizations are building cultures of innovation
- Understand the origins of SIT and see examples of organizations using the tools and methods to deliver ongoing and sustainable innovative ideas
Presenter: Shlomit Tassa
As VP Key Clients and senior facilitator at SIT, Shlomit is very much of an all-rounder in the SIT team. Shlomit combines her technical and engineering background with extensive expertise in marketing and innovation processes. She has led SIT’s work with a diverse range of clients including ABN AMRO, Adidas, Bayer, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Pearson, Shell, Siemens, and Unilever. She and her team work with clients to build an infrastructure of innovation capabilities as means of improving their companies’ business goals. As a facilitator, Shlomit specializes in Creative Problem Solving, New Product Development, and MarCom.
Shlomit heads SIT’s expertise in Innovation for Sustainability, developing methods for generating cutting-edge sustainable solutions, and has spoken on the topic in various international conferences.
Developing Organization: Systematic Inventive Thinking
SIT – Systematic Inventive Thinking®, Ltd. is a privately owned company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices or affiliates on 5 continents. Since 1996, SIT has conducted innovation programs in more than 60 countries in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. They’ve worked with over 850 companies and organizations – varying in size from 10 to 300,000 employees – helping them to think differently in a useful and effective way and achieve their objectives through innovation.