Point of View: Perspectives
Accountable Care Organizations
Across the country, accountable care organizations (ACOs) are being hailed as a solution to the most daunting challenges of healthcare reform. Now is the time to determine where your organization will fit in this changing landscape.
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Closing the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a discipline that is highly effective in bridging the gap between strategy and execution by managing projects, people, processes and information assets for maximum business benefit.
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Considerations for ICD-10 Conversion
It’s no longer a matter of if or when, but how to approach ICD-10 conversion. We encourage providers not to consider ICD-10 as a compliance project, but an opportunity to capture more granular clinical data that could aid in improving health outcomes.
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Fast Food Lean
The speedy implementation of Lean has become an epidemic. Companies are sacrificing a healthy, long-term approach to transformation for the sake of quick wins. Here’s how to recognize the signs of a “fast food” Lean approach—and what to do about it.
more » Introduction to Sustainability
Environmental sustainability helps reduce costs, mitigate risk, increase social responsibility and grow revenue. Learn how sustainability impacts your business today and in the future, and how you can embrace it to increase value.
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Leading High-Risk / High-Profile Projects
Transformational projects require vision to forsee future project challenges, confidence to develop a plan to remove those challenges and courage to move forward despite the challenges.
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Leading People Through Change I
Change Management is the process, tools and techniques used to manage the transition inside the mind of each individual. Change is not an event; it's a journey. Understand where your stakeholders are and where you need them to be on the change curve.
more » Leading People Through Change II
Project success depends on managing the impacts of change on the organization, so employees not only understand why change is necessary, but internalize and embrace the change. Learn about which change strategies to employ to help influence organizational change.
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Leading Projects Through Rock Bottom
Our perspective on the dynamics of projects as they land at rock bottom, executive crisis management and strategies for leading the executive and a troubled project team forward toward a successful conclusion.
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Lean CIO
It is unfortunate that many IT organizations are perceived by the business as an expensive cost center that is relegated to fixing system outages and planning upgrades. To elevate the role of IT and have a meaningful voice in C-level strategy discussions, CIOs must prove that they can deliver exceptional service and invest performance improvement gains back into the business.
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Medical Device Data Systems
In its final ruling on Medical Device Data Systems, the FDA indicates that a risk analysis should be completed, making it in your best interests to take this step.
more » Mergers & Acquisitions: How to Maximize Your Return
The key to high quality M&A lies in having a clear strategy, driving the emotion and ambiguity out, investing in sufficient planning and deploying adequate resources to execute the plan well.
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Point B’s Perspective on Leadership
Leaders exhibit a vast array of positive behaviors—thought leadership, serving as a trusted advisor, encouraging an ownership orientation and enabling team building are all key aspects to strong leadership.
more » Strategic Planning: What Your Process Should Look Like
Leaders need to view strategic planning as one step in the ongoing continuum of leadership and be very deliberate in structuring the planning process so it results in a plan that invests in the right plays at the right time to insure both short and long term competitiveness.
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Strategy and the Last Mile
Strategy deployment done with your greatest asset -- your people -- can help companies focus more effectively on their customers and achieve better results.
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Successful Software Selection
Selecting a software solution that meets functional requirements, is a good architectural as well as organizational fit and is procured at an optimal initial and ongoing cost is critical to realizing business value from a technology initiative.
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The Interim Leadership Value Proposition
One of the greatest challenges facing organizations today is the scarcity of experienced senior talent to sustain and grow their businesses. Bringing in an interim leader with experience can calm an organization, eliminate distractions and keep the organization focused on its core work, while a longer term hiring process is underway.
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The Post-Reform Healthcare Marketplace
Understanding the drivers of the life cyle of the post-reform healthcare marketplace will be the difference between success and failure for health plans and other payer-market participants.
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Unconventional Value of an Interim Leader
Traditionally, bringing in an interim leader has been viewed as a stopgap solution—someone to fill the day-to-day leadership vacuum during the search for a permanent replacement. But a skilled interim leader can do more than fill the void; he or she can prepare the organization and the incoming leader for success.
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