Planning For Turbulence – A Case Study

What's coming in health and human services? No one knows exactly. The past few months have been a whirlwind of headlines on the new administration, health care reform legislation, and newly issued rules.

My colleague, Monica E. Oss has written before about the importance of planning for unknown scenarios and what that plan should include (see Considering Future Scenarios: The OPEN MINDS Guide To Scenario-Based Planning). This plan should include optimizing the current market situation, planning for future scenarios, and most importantly, planning for the turbulence and disruption of getting from here to the future.

In the face . . .