Strategy & Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is an essential business process for health and human service provider organizations. A strategic plan provides clarity and transparency from the board on performance expectations and priorities and serves as the overall foundation for organizational infrastructure development and operating plans. However, strategy is only one factor of the overall strategic planning process. Rather, strategy and strategic planning require a scenario-based, tactical, and detailed implementation and execution plan with the right management team and performance metrics to ensure the organization is progressing toward its strategic initiatives. Amid changing reimbursement models, consumerism, and other market disruptors, a strategic plan that is both market-focused and nimble is key for sustainability in an uncertain future.

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Playing Bullet Chess

Unexpected change in the health and human service field is the rule right now, rather than the exception. And the strategic decisions in response to those changes need to happen more promptly. In fact, in Surprise! Sustainability & Survival In A Time Of Market Chaos, my closing remarks at The 2025 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute, I quoted General George Patton, “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.” The big question is how do… Read

• Creating & Enhancing Service Lines: The 2025 OPEN MINDS Executive Seminar On Developing A Winning Growth Strategy
• Improving Consumer Experience: The 2025 OPEN MINDS Executive Seminar On Creating Better Engagement & Increasing Revenue
• Navigating The Big Shifts
• Successfully Managing Through Chaos: Perspectives For Health & Human Service Executives. Part 2: The OPEN MINDS Leadership & Management Framework
• The Affiliation Question

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