Tag: Strategy Deployment

Happy New Year! It's a time of year when we think about improvement and goals for the year. We do this in our organizations...

Today's post is the transcript of a discussion that I recently recorded with Jeff Hunter, the author of the book Patient-Centered Strategy: A Learning System for Better Care. Jeff is presenting a free webinar that KaiNexus and I are hosting on September 24: Putting Strategy Back in Strategy Deployment Below, you can listen to our chat where Jeff introduces himself and some of the concepts that he'll be presenting about. The transcript follows the audio player.

Joining me today for Episode #312 of the podcast is Jeff Hunter, author of the excellent book "Patient-Centered Strategy: A Learning System for Better Care." Jeff was with the ThedaCare in Wisconsin, where he was Senior Vice President, Strategy and Marketing for the health system. After retiring from ThedaCare, he has been a faculty member for Catalysis and has started his own consulting firm, Jeff Hunter Strategy. In today's podcast, we discuss a number of topics, including how a good strategy is a necessary input for a "strategy deployment" management process, some of the problems with traditional approaches to strategic planning, and why an iterative PDSA approach works better than static plans.

My guest for Episode #286 is Dean Gruner, MD, the recently retired CEO of ThedaCare, a health system in Wisconsin that has long been considered a worldwide leader in the practice of Lean in healthcare. See this article about his retirement, where he says "I've gotten more than I've given." Dean was previously my guest in Episodes 119 and 144 and I'm thrilled that he took time out of his retirement to talk with me about his lessons learned as he looks back on how ThedaCare's Lean journey has evolved, including some things he would consider to be missteps and challenges that they used as a springboard to get even better. I will also be releasing a separate episode where Dean talks about their experiences with Accountable Care Organizations (our topic from #144) and other "big picture" healthcare issues of the day. I'm including a full transcript along with a three-page PDF summary, as I've been doing recently.

Following up on last week's post where I shared KaiNexus webinars from the first half of the year.... Again, one of the things I do...

This week is our 2nd annual KaiNexus User Conference, in Austin... with customers and those who are about to become customers joining us for...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQJwr_0p7J8 Presented by Mark Graban on July 27, 2016. In this webinar, you will learn: How organizations use Strategy Deployment (or Hoshin Planning) to create alignment...

Here is the EXTREMELY belated Part 2 of my post, started in January 2015 with Part 1, on Strategy Deployment (SD) and hypotheses. A few...

Back in November, I had a chance to meet Nate Hurle, from Cleveland Clinic, as he was giving a presentation about their work with...

Today, I'm traveling to Orlando for the annual Society for Health Systems conference. I hope to see some of you there! Joe Swartz and...

tl;dr: The article delves into a modernized approach to strategy deployment by treating it as a series of testable hypotheses or predictions. This perspective...

I've had some cartoons on the blog before, including a few "Doofus & Leanies."  I can't draw at all, believe me (although I sometimes...