Making Strategy Count in the Health and Human Services Sector: Lessons Learned from 20 Organizations and Chief Strategy Officers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826129757 ISBN 13: 9780826129758

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2013

Synopsis

This is the first guide to achieving long-term impact and social change by employing critical strategies in the health and human services sector. It is based on lessons from a learning lab of 20 human services organizations and their chief strategy officers who, as part of the "Strategy Counts" initiative, engineered significant improvements in their ability to adjust to change, reap the benefits of more data-driven decisions, innovate in ways that have meaningful impact, and establish fruitful partnerships with companies, communities, and government.

The book is based on the findings of a long-term pilot projectóthe Alliance for Children and Families Strategy Counts initiativeówhich focused on enhancing the social impact of human services organizations by increasing their reliance on strategy and its effective deployment throughout the entire organization. Included among these findings are those tools and methods that have the greatest potential to help nonprofits effectively anticipate emerging market forces and adapt strategies accordingly. Replete with lessons learned and case studies, the book will inform a great variety of human services organizations in their quest to improve the lives of children, adults, and families.

Key Features:

• Comprises the first guide to using critical strategies in human service organizations to achieve transformation and long-term social impact
• Designed to foster agility in adjusting to change, reliance on data-driven decisions, and successful partnerships with companies, communities, and government
• Describes how the chief strategy officers from a learning lab of human services organizations used strategy to innovate, strengthen organizational culture, and effect meaningful change
• Based on the findings of the Alliance for Children and Families Strategy Counts initiative

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Mortell is Director of the Alliance for Children and Families Strategy Counts! initiative. He came to the Alliance after leading one of several Lean Six Sigma projects underway within the administration functions of Milwaukee Public Schools, in partnership with the GE Healthcare Foundation. Mr. Mortell managed the $5.1 million Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) grant, designing and launching the Innovation Fund. The WIRED initiative provided seed funding for regional partnerships and projects designed to enhance southeastern Wisconsin's economic competitiveness.Tine Hansen-Turton MGA, JD, FCCP, FAAN, is founding Executive Director/CEO, Convenient Care Association (CCA), Philadelphia; a national for-profit trade association of 1200+ emerging private-sector based retail clinics that provide basic primary health care to over 17 million people nationally. She also serves as Vice President, Health Care Access and Policy for Public Health Management Corporation (a nonprofit public health institute with 30 years in managing and consulting for other nonprofit organisations), and as CEO, National Nursing Centers Consortium (where she oversees the growth and development of 250+ nurse-managed health centres, serving more than 2.5 million clients). Tine is adjunct faculty, Fels Institute of Government and LaSalle University. She publishes in leading peer-reviewed professional health care and legal journals and is a regular presenter at local, state and national health care conferences. She is co-author of Springer's Community and Nurse-Managed Health Centers: Getting them Started and Keeping them Going, an AJN Book of the Year Award Winner, and Nurse-managed Wellness Centers: Developing and Maintaining Your Center. Ms Hanson-Turton has received several advocacy and leadership awards, including the 2005 Eisenhower Fellowship and the American Express Next Gen Fellowship by the Independent Sector in 2010. She also recently received the Philadelphia Business Journal 40 under 40 Leadership Award and was named one of the 101 emerging Philadelphia connectors by Leadership Philadelphia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0826129757
• ISBN 13: 9780826129758
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Mortell MS Michael -