EP222: How to Get Real Results From Your Innovation Department, With Naomi Fried, CEO of Health Innovation Strategies

How to Get Real Results From Your Innovation Department, With Naomi Fried (EP222) Crossing the "O-Gap": Why Deciding to Innovate Isn't the Same as Doing It. Episode 222. Say you're a provider, an insurance carrier, or a pharma company, and you've realized you need to innovate — to cut costs, deliver better care, hedge against an upstart disrupting your business, or make sure your risk-based contracts actually go well. Deciding to be innovative is one thing; getting your organization to actually do innovation is another. In this episode, Stacey Richter talks with Naomi Fried, CEO of Health Innovation Strategies, about what it takes to cross what she calls the "o-gap," or operationalization gap. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✅ Why deciding to innovate and actually operationalizing innovation are two completely different challenges ✅ What Naomi Fried means by the "o-gap" — the operationalization gap between an innovation strategy and real organizational execution ✅ Why innovation matters not just for growth, but as a hedge against upstarts disrupting an established business model ✅ How risk-based contracts raise the stakes for getting innovation right, not just aspirational ✅ How Naomi's background at Kaiser Permanente, Boston Children's Hospital, and Biogen shapes her approach to building innovation departments that actually deliver WHY THIS MATTERS Plenty of organizations can articulate a desire to innovate; far fewer can actually cross the gap from strategy to execution. Naomi Fried's framing of the "o-gap" gives providers, carriers, and pharma companies a concrete way to diagnose why their innovation efforts stall — and what it takes to get real results instead of just good intentions. === LINKS === 🔗 Show Notes with all mentioned links: Episode Page ✉️ Enjoy this podcast? Subscribe to the free weekly newsletter 🫙 Support the podcast with a small donation to the Tip Jar 🎤 Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎤 Listen on Spotify 📺 Subscribe to our YouTube channel === CONNECT WITH THE RHV TEAM === ✭ LinkedIn ✭ Threads ✭ Bluesky ✭ X