Thinking Merger, Acquisition, Affiliation? Think Strategy First

Is every health and human service team thinking about collaborations of some sort? I would say they should be. But the question is how? My observation is that there is too much activity and not enough strategy.

Let’s start with the landscape issue. We’re in the midst of three crises—public health, economic, and political. This “perfect storm” is going to remake the health and human service industry in ways that we can anticipate, but don’t know for sure. The business literature from past crises says that, in the three years after a crisis (think March 2024 . . .