--- title: Succeed in Spite of Bureaucracy - A Harvard Business Review Article by Ken Segel description: This article describes successful countermeasures taken by a number of health systems to tear down the value-destroying barriers that bureaucratic structures throw up. image: https://www.valuecapturellc.com/hubfs/Ken%20Segel%20Value%20Capture%20New%20BG.jpg --- # Succeed in Spite of Bureaucracy - A Harvard Business Review Article by Ken Segel November 1, 2017 Written by Ken Segel Harvard Business Review published Ken Segel's article, "[*Bureaucracy is Keeping Health Care from Getting Bette*r](https://hbr.org/2017/10/bureaucracy-is-keeping-health-care-from-getting-better)." 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