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Successful Strategic Planning: The Board Role
Trustee Articles
This monograph covers the basics of strategic planning, including definitions of common terms, a description of the planning process and the characteristics of successful plans. It describes the board’s role in planning, including why plans fail, common weaknesses and how boards can support successful plan implementation.
Someone to Lean On
Trustee Articles
Health care CEOs may need a little help. How about hiring a chief of staff?
Revisiting the Mission
Trustee Articles
Recently, I sat in a board meeting of a leading U.S. health system as trustees were discussing their strategic vision for the system, and how the rapidly changing health care field, marketplace and regulations were having a profound impact on its future.
Planning for the Day after Tomorrow
Board-led strategic planning provides an organizational roadmap.
Philanthropy and Strategic Direction
Trustee Articles
Executives, trustees and physicians should be the leading advocates of philanthropy.
Participation Is Not Optional
A board that engages 100% of its membership results in effective governance.
Mission-Based Decision-Making for Boards
Trustee Articles
A reason for being. An organization’s purpose or identity. An expression of what an organization believes it must be to best meet the needs of its stakeholders. These are descriptions of what we commonly think of as “mission.” Members of a health care organization’s board are responsible for governing in ways that help fulfill their organization’s mission. But what does that really mean? How does a hospital’s mission relate to effective governance?
Managing Capital Project Risks in a Challenging Environment
Trustee Articles
This monograph discusses today’s market environment, current capital market perspective and related risks, and then outlines a project management approach and questions that must be addressed to help board members and executives more effectively manage capital project risks while achieving organizational strategies and goals.
Linking Incentives to Risk
Trustee Articles
As health care transforms, boards are tying executive compensation to long-term performance.