Transformative Planning: How Your Healthcare Organization Can Strategize for an Uncertain Future

Navigate healthcare's uncertain future with a proven strategy for transformative planning. This guide equips leaders to build agile, adaptable organizations ready for anything.

Traditional strategic planning too often results in incremental change focused more on next year’s budget than on creative growth and sustainable development. Leadership teams struggle to “paint with two brushes”: building in transformative change while maintaining current operations.

Transformative Planning: How Your Healthcare Organization Can Strategize for an Uncertain Future explains how leadership teams can lay the groundwork for new, transformational healthcare delivery models while simultaneously meeting the requirements of today. Learn to embrace uncertainty and incorporate flexibility into your long-term planning with essential frameworks, tools, and processes for developing and implementing strategic and execution plans that work. Healthcare leaders and governing boards will discover how to:

• Master mental models and decision traps
• Define vision and strategic priorities
• Develop strategy through scenario planning
• Implement an effective execution framework

Jim Austin heads JH Austin Associates Inc., Chicago, where he combines business strategy and organizational development theory with extensive industry experience to guide organizations. He is also an adjunct senior lecturer at Brown University, Providence, R.H., in the Executive Master of Healthcare Leadership program, and a faculty member at Duke Corporate Education, headquartered in Durham, N.C. Mr. Austin is a lecturer/consultant at the Aresty Institute of Executive Education in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he tailors and delivers senior-level seminars on strategy, strategic execution, scenario planning and critical thinking at a number of leading companies. Mr. Austin is a former senior executive at Baxter Healthcare. 

 

Mr. Austin serves as faculty for the following ACHE seminar:
Leading Strategic Change Mr. Austin also authored the following Health Administration Press publications:
Transformative Planning: How Your Healthcare Organization Can Strategize for an Uncertain Future