Service Line Portfolio Analysis for Health & Human Services: Business Tools for Looking at Margins, Diversification, and Resource Allocation

How do we decide which of our services to eliminate and which to invest in? Does our spending really reflect our mission and our strategic priorities? How do we balance mission and the need to have a reasonable "bottom line"? How do we achieve the right balance of organizational focus and investment of resources?

These are the questions that executives of most health and human service organizations wrestle with when planning for the year, and years, ahead. For most organizations to succeed, optimizing the mix of services provided to the community is a key ingredient - essentially managing the mix of . . .