John M. Harris and Carol Davis write that health systems need to develop strategies to respond to four specific types of disruptive innovators in health care.
To achieve the best work product from strategic planning sessions, it is imperative for leaders to foster group collaboration and seek input from multiple stakeholders with different backgrounds and skill sets. Even when a diverse group of participants are selected, it can be difficult to obtain input from all participants if one or a few […]
Alan Zuckerman, FACHE, FAAHC, Retired Veralon Director & Chair Robert N. Golden, MD, Robert Turrell professor in medical leadership, dean of the School of Medicine and Public Health, and vice chancellor for medical affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alan M. Zuckerman, FACHE, Retired Veralon Director & Chair
The challenges faced by the healthcare industry require healthcare organizations to reduce costs. Yet many organizations are determined to grow, and doing both simultaneously may seem counterintuitive. Yet the two imperatives are not necessarily at odds. Growth is typically seen as the product of investment. And reducing costs can itself require the investment of organizational […]
A health system’s efforts in deploying strategic network initiatives will be effective only if its leaders understand the unique factors affecting multi-provider networks.
We recently received the following question from an attendee during our ACHE Cluster session, Strategic Planning from Formulation to Action, in Marco Island: What makes for a successful strategic plan update? Once a strategic plan has been completed, it needs to be updated on a consistent (at least annual) basis. This allows for the plan […]
Future uncertainty of the health care environment is creating unprecedented challenges for health care organizations. To manage risk in uncertain times, scenario planning, which helps organizations adapt more successfully to unexpected future conditions, is an effective tool to incorporate into the strategic planning process. There are two potential approaches to incorporate scenario planning into the […]
A complete strategic plan will always include an external assessment. The external assessment should examine the organization’s historical performance as it relates to its respective marketplace, including analysis of the market’s historical performance as well as anticipated future trends and forecasts. The external assessment has five main components: 1. Review of demographic, economic, and health […]
For organizations to insert creativity, intuition, a future orientation, and new perspectives into its strategic planning process, strategic thinking is required. It is the type of thinking that attempts to determine what an organization should look like in the future. Strategic thinkers ask questions such as: “What are we doing now that we should stop […]