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Category : General Leadership
This week represents the kick off of our 2019 leadership improvement initiative, “Refining Your Leadership.” We will be supporting this initiative with new leadership inspirations, articles, podcasts and in speaking engagements. We want leaders and aspiring leaders to understand how they can best improve their leadership.
Category : General Healthcare Leadership
In the 1999 groundbreaking movie, “The Matrix”, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) offers Neo (Keanu Reeves) a choice between a blue pill and a red pill. If Neo took the blue pill, he would wake up and continue believing whatever he wanted to believe about his life. If he took the red pill, he would stay and learn the truth about the Matrix.
Category : Analytics Healthcare Leadership
Category : Healthcare Leadership
Social media represents a great opportunity for establishing a one-on-one relationship with the patient, aka the healthcare consumer, directed by the healthcare organization that breaks from the pack, by creating a social media healthcare experience that is memorable, exceeding an individual or families experience and expectations.
Category : Healthcare Leadership
Physicians are considered to be the ideal leaders in healthcare as they have been through tough training for many years and they are in charge of 100% of the healthcare dollars spent. They know medicine but unfortunately, they lack management skills such as strategic planning, negotiation, budget and financial decisions.
Category : Leadership
Believe it or not, 2017 is right around the corner. I invite you to consider making 4 wise leadership investments next year!
Category : Leadership
Setting aside 15 minutes a day can help you prioritize, prepare, and build a stronger team.
Category : Analytics Healthcare Leadership
Executive Summary
When most people think about the challenges of implementing healthcare analytics, they wrongly expect it to be the data, talent or technology. Executives that have been successful implementing healthcare analytics know the top challenge is leadership. In a study performed recently, leadership was identified as the top challenge by participants. In fact, it wasn’t even close. Leadership was identified as a challenge by 29% of the respondents versus 18% for data and 14% for talent. Statistically, this is a huge difference.
Category : Leadership
These are habits best avoided, if possible!
Category : Analytics Data Management Data Science General Leadership
Organizations are finding that hiring qualified Data Scientist is a real challenge. Experienced Data Scientists are expensive and are usually employed elsewhere. This high demand, low supply economics is leading to a situation of the ‘haves’ versus the ‘have-nots’, where the larger, financially rich organizations in the ‘sexy’ industries are most capable of attracting and hiring data scientists, while the lesser companies will have to make do without one.
Organizations are looking at new approaches to finding data scientists. Some are able to attract them with more than money like autonomy and development opportunities. Others are training current staff to become more data literate through professional development programs. Once trained, these individuals typically must work 12 to 24 months at the organization or have to pay back the amount spent on their training.
There is another approach that should be considered.