Areas of expertise of Big Picture Healthcare include Strategic Excellence, Leadership And Team Development, and Organizational Integration.


Strategic Excellence.

These services are designed to make sure the organization is clear about its own big picture, and that the big picture is realistic and motivating. Assessment services provided under Strategic Excellence include market research, competitive assessments and classic internal assessments. Strategy development services include strategic plans, business plans, product plans, market plans, turn around plans, financial plans, market positioning. Facilitative services include board retreats, mission and visioning sessions, collaborative planning sessions including Future Search and Whole Scale Change. Keynote addresses can be used to catalyze thinking about big picture issues, prior to planning sessions.


Leadership and Team Development Programs.

These include executive, individual and team assessments, classic team building, leadership and team development, 360-degree feedback, executive coaching, management skill building, and leadership workshops. The goal of these services is to create executive, team and individual peak performance. These services often have both group and team components as well as individual elements. Group elements can effectively be used to kick off major projects like new product teams or new company directions. Customized team exercises are often designed to address specific skill areas that are weak in the organization.


Organizational Integration.

This is the hardest work. It takes the longest and its focus is on aligning the resources of an organization to the big picture, and to each other. Its goal is to create a peak performance culture and peak performance organization. This is truly about alignment and integration. Services include integration of cross-functional teams, making tough decisions about financial resources to match the strategic plan. Aligning metrics with new objectives and working away from past norms.


Integrated Strategic Organizational Services.

Big Picture Healthcare integrates its Strategic Excellence performance systems throughout the organization. It all starts with assessment: where are you now? It moves to strategic vision: where does the organization need to be? Then, working with individual managers and executives, we integrate the development of leaders and their teams, creating a focused, peak performance organizational cultures, aligning entire communities with the big picture. Big Picture Healthcare offers a variety of modalities or alternatives to achieve Strategic Excellence in ways that fit client philosophy and budget.


Emphasis on Health Care.

The health care system in this country is about to implode. Not a single stakeholder in the entire system is happy with the status quo. Costs are increasing, and will continue to do so as the baby boomers age.

Health care is the only industry in the United States where we have been increasing middle management over the past 15 years. All other industries have been decreasing middle management, almost to the loss of core management skills. As such, health care requires its own focus and we provide consulting to health care organizations that wish to get out of the box and really address in an integrated manner, health care strategic excellence. We offer these services with a wealth of health care expertise seldom available from other consultants.

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