• 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)
  
  
• Once Upon a Time: A Strategy Story 
  (2005)
• Successful Implementation of the Focused Factory Theory within a Non-Profit Hospital 
  (2005)
• Scripps Health: Strategic Planning Applied to Ambulatory Services
  (2005)
• The Power of True Stakeholder Engagement 
  (2005)
• Strategic and Program Planning for Surgical Services 
  (2005)
• The Convergence of Operational and Strategic Planning: Cross Functional NOT Dysfunctional
  (2005)
• Essentials of Strategy: A Capital Markets Perspective 
  (2005)
• The Practical Use of Balanced Scorecards 
  (2005)
• Strategic Planning: Why and How to Tackle the 'Good to Great' Challenge 
  (2005)
• Outpatient Cardiovascular Development Strategies for Future Profitability 
  (2005)
• Cost and Quality Transparency: What Works for Consumers? 
  (2005)
• Nontraditional Joint Venture Approach 
  (2005)
• New Medical Technology: Can You Afford It? And Can You Not? 
  (2005)
• Bridging the Technology Chasm: Strategic Planning for Emerging Technology
  (2005)
• Your Tax-Exemption Under Fire: Learning How to Operate Consistent with Your Charitable Requirements
  (2005)
  
  
• Strategic Metrics: So Many Numbers, So Little Focus 
  (2004)
• The Capital Gap: Solutions and Case Studies 
  (2004)
• Strategic Alignment for Clinical Programs: Are Your Programs Aligned?
  (2004)
• Innovative Revenue Growth Strategies 
  (2004)
  
  
• Measuring Return on Marketing Investments 
  (2003)
• Measuring Your Brand and Proving that it Matters 
  (2003)
• Effective Marketing When Demand Exceeds Capacity 
  (2003)
• Clinical Institutes: The Ultimate Integration Strategy
  (2003)   
• Retail Medicine Models: Lessons Learned
  (2003)
• Integrating PR, Marketing, Planning and Sales
  (2003)
• The Theory of the Business
  (2003)
• The Future of State Data Availability
  (2003)
  

Spectrum Articles

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

• 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)
  
  
• The Planner's Toolkit: How to Develop and Integrated Strategic and Financial Plan 
  (May/June 2005)
• Ambulatory Care: It's Time to Be More Aggressive 
  (May/June 2005)
• Capacity Management: The Next Big Thing   
  (March/April 2005)
  
  
• By Passing the Competition: Using Benhmarks to Achieve Cardiovascular Program Success 
  (November/December 2004)
• Portfolio Analysis: Beyond Market Share and Market Size 
  (July/August 2004)
• Putting CRM To Work for Better Planning, Strategy, and Value 
  (May/June 2004)
• Ten Things We Can Learn from For-Profits   
  (March/April 2004)
  
  
• Strategic Planning for Behavioral Health Services 
  (November/December 2003)
• Coronary Artery Disease and Women: A Focused Approach to Grow Cardiac Market Share 
  (March/April 2003)

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