• Getting Started with Community Health Assessment: Practical Tools, Steps, and Resources
  (2011)
• Back To Basics: How to Create a Successful Strategic Plan
  (2011)
• Achieving Success with Risk-Based Payments  
  (2011)
• Market Critical: From All-Things-To-All-People to a High-Value Hospital 
  (2011)
• Applying the Insights in Futurescan 2011 to Your Organization’s Strategy  
  (2011)
• Turnaround Portfolio: Essential Strategies for Transforming Hospital Performance 
  (2011)
• Aligning Hospitals and Physicians in the Wake of Healthcare Reform 
  (2011)
• Learning From Sustainable Models in Rural Healthcare 
  (2011)
• Ambulatory Planning Under Health Reform 
  (2011)
• Enhancing Outpatient Market Intelligence
  (2011)
• Development and Implementation of a Successful Strategy Review Process 
  (2011)
• Empowering Communities to Envision Their Own Healthcare Future 
  (2011)
• Hitting the Target the First Time: Aligning Around Ambulatory Strategies  
  (2011)
• Red-Ocean Strategic Planning 
  (2011)
  
  
• Postreform: The New Growth Agenda
  (2010)
• Applying Design Thinking to Solve Your Complex Business Challenges
  (2010)
• Strategic Positioning: Disruptive Innovation Leads to Wise Allocation and Smart Growth
  (2010)
• Uncertain Times: Creating a platform for deeper strategic conversations and cultural change in the Strategic Planning Process
  (2010)
• Out is In - Innovative Models for Ambulatory Strategy Delivery
  (2010)
• Revolutionize Your Strategic Planning Efforts: Lessons From Outside the Healthcare Industry
  (2010)
• Capital Asset Strategy: How to Rightsize Your Facility Investments
  (2010)
• Hiding in Plain Sight: Uncovering Patient Migration Trends
  (2010)
• Accountable Care Organizations: The Case Is Strong But The Jury Is Out
  (2010)
• Plan, Align, Deploy and Execute—Bring Your Strategy to Life
  (2010)
• Planning and Marketing Accountable Care Organizations and Patient-Centered Medical Homes
  (2010)
• Finding the Untapped Potential in Ambulatory Programs: How to Position and Operate Your Programs for Strategic and Financial Success
  (2010)
• Using Strategic Planning Insights to Support Executive Leadership
  (2010)
• Achieving Competitive Advantage: Primary Care "Retail" Strategy
  (2010)
  
  
• Tying It All Together: Research as the Ribbon
  (2009)
• Hospitals 2020: How Fundamental Economics, Clinical Innovation, and IT will Reshape the Healthcare Delivery Model
  (2009)
• Strategic Options in a Consolidating Market
  (2009)
• Working in Concert: Integrating Strategic, Market and Medical Staff Plans
  (2009)
• Evaluating Strategic Performance
  (2009)
• Turning Today's Crisis into Tomorrow's Opportunities Through Effective Strategic Planning
  (2009)
• What Would Happen If: Using Scenario Planning to Define Your Business Strategy
  (2009)
• Evaluating Your Medical Staff Needs
  (2009)
• No Capital, No Worries
  (2009)
• Counterintuitive Success: Implementing Bold Strategies in the Face of a Recession
  (2009)
• Getting Hitched: Considering Merger During Down Times
  (2009)
• Strategic Differentiation and the Drivers of Change
  (2009)
• Engaging Your Board in Strategic Planning
  (2009)
• Using Health Information Technologies as a Horizontal Physician Alignment Strategy
  (2009)
  
  
• The Process and Art of Strategy
  (2008)
• Healing the Body of Healthcare: Application of a Structured Model for Systematic Healthcare Improvement
  (2008)
• Rapid Strategy Development: Get Engagement and Results Quicker
  (2008)
• Healthcare Retail Strategies: Revenue Generation and the New Paradigm Shift
  (2008)
• Decoding the Techno-Buzz: Clinical Technology Selection
  (2008)
• Women's Health Service Line Strategic Planning
  (2008)
• Avoiding Strategic Impasses
  (2008)
• Catching the Ambulatory Wave: Hospitals and Physicians Plan for the Future
  (2008)
• From Bookshelf to Action: A Comprehensive Approach to Strategic Plan Implementation
  (2008)
• Hit Us With Your Best Shot for Strategic Planning Professionals
  (2008)
• Transparency Transforms Strategic Planning and Service Line Development
  (2008)
• The Strategic Scorecard: How It Drives Change and Improves Results
  (2008)
• Competitive Strategies for the Independent Hospital: How Can You Remain Independent?
  (2008)
• An Approach to Facilities Strategic Planning
  (2008)
  
  
• Walking the Talk: New Tools to Translate Strategic Vision into Action and Results (T5) 
  (2007)
• The Evolving Clinical Delivery Network (T6) 
  (2007)
• Junking the Bumper-Car Strategy: Developing Advanced Strategic Thinking for Competitive Advantage (T15) 
  (2007)
• A Case for Strategy: Applying Our Instincts to Real-Life Strategic Challenges (T16) 
  (2007)
• What Is Your Brand Really Worth? Measuring the Cash Value of a Hospital Brand (T25) 
  (2007)
• Growing the Top Line: Strategies for Success (T26) 
  (2007)
• Hit Us With Your Best Shot for Strategic Planning Professionals (F5) 
  (2007)
• Best-Practice Strategic Planning: How Baldrige-Award-winning Hospitals Do It (F6) 
  (2007)
• Strategic Planning, Alignment, and Metrics: A Working Framework (F15) 
  (2007)
• Integrated Strategic and Facility Planning (F16) 
  (2007)
• The Balanced Scorecard: Focus and Align Your Organization for Breakthrough Performance (F25) 
  (2007)
• Execution Is Killing Us: Successful Implementation of Your Strategic Plan (F26) 
  (2007)
• Strategic Planning Building Blocks: Who, What, When, Where, Why (S3) 
  (2007)
  
  
• Rehearsing the Future: Practical Strategic Planning Tools and Techniques for an Uncertain World (T5) 
  (2006)
• Mission and Margin: Can they Co-exist? Strategies for Building Service that Serve the Community and Impact the Bottom Line (T6) 
  (2006)
• Breakthrough Strategies that Shift Market Share (T7) 
  (2006)
• Lost? Get your GPS through Strategic Planning (T15) 
  (2006)
• Integrated Market Growth and Clinical Affiliation Strategies (T16)
  (2006)
• Innovation--Survival of the Fittest (T17) 
  (2006)
• Line of Sight: Driving the Strategic Plan to the Front Line (T25) 
  (2006)
• Prioritization and Politics: Successful Capital Allocation of Strategic Opportunities (T26)
  (2006)
• State-of-the-Art in Strategic Planning (F5) 
  (2006)
• Retooling Your MSO for Innovative Business Strategies (F6) 
  (2006)
• Hit Us With Your Best Shot for Strategic Planning Professional (F15) 
  (2006)
• Making Physicians True Strategic Partners in Strategic Planning (F16) 
  (2006)
• Keeping the Plan Offf the Shelf: Successful Development and Implementation of Your Organization's Strategic Plans (F25) 
  (2006)
• A Community Collaboration Case Study: Getting More Together Than You Can Achieve Solo (F26) 
  (2006)
• Successes and Challenges of the Kaiser Permanente Template Hospital and Facilities Standards Program (S3)
  (2006)

Spectrum Articles

(Some Spectrum articles are posted as complete PDFs. You will need to browse the issue to find the article listed.)

• Repositioning Centers of Excellence for an Accountable Care World
  (January/February 2012)
  
  
• Transforming Healthcare Delivery into an Experience-based Brand
  (July/August 2011)
• What Health Insurance Exchanges Mean for Strategy and Marketing
  (July-August 2011)
• Making the Most of Your Ambulatory Care Assets
  (March/April 2011)
• Capturing Healthcare Reform’s New Customers: The Newly Insured
  (January/February 2011)
  
  
• (Un)Intended Consequences: How Choices Made During Strategic Planning Can Make or Break a Plan
  (November/December 2010)
• Strategic Planning in Healthcare Redefined: Lessons from the Retail Industry
  (September/October 2010)
• The Market Overview in the New World Order
  (July/August 2010)
• Achieving Performance Excellence Through Transparency
  (January/February 2010)
  
  
• What’s Your Recession Planning IQ?
  (September/October 2009)
• Using MS-DRGs to Develop Service Line Leadership Strategies
  (May/June 2009)
  
  
• Three Strategic Impasses and How to Avoid Them
  (November/December 2008)
• A Five-Step Process for Evaluating and Implementing Physician-Hospital Joint Ventures
  (September/October 2008)
• From Bookshelf to Action: A Comprehensive Approach to Strategic Plan Implementation
  (July/August 2008)
• Environmental Assessments: Building the Framework for Successful Strategic Decisions
  (May/June 2008)
• The Retail Revolution Comes to Healthcare
  (March/April 2008)
  
  
• Planning the Right Facility: Seven Steps for Strategic Financial Success
  (November/December 2007)
• Strategic Misjudgments: Lessons Learned
  (September/October 2007)
• Community Benefit is a Vital Part of Healthcare Strategy
  (July/August 2007)
• Planning for an Often Overlooked Service Line
  (March/April 2007)
• Prioritization and Politics: Ten Best Practices for More Effective Capital Allocation
  (January/February 2007)
  
  
• Plan or Perish!
  (November/December 2006)
• Got Outpatient Data? Using Data Sources to Assess Ambulatory Opportunities -- Part 2
  (September/October 2006)
• Got Outpatient Data? Using Data Sources to Assess Ambulatory Opportunities -- Part 1
  (July/August 2006)
• Knowing What You Don't Know About Your Oncology Business
  (May/June 2006)
• Successful Implementation of a Focused-Factory Strategy within a Not-For-Profit Hospital
  (Mar/Apr 2006)

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