Too many physician groups have no strategy.
Tag: tactics
Train your medical group’s members for actions consistent with the group’s strategy.
Medical groups must demonstrate communal involvement as a part of the negotiating process.
The future’s not guaranteed.
Many of the acts, actions and activities within the scope of your group’s members’ daily duties are manageable as they relate to your group’s business strategy. They impact the success or failure of your group. For instance, consider the conduct, comments, and other communication, verbal and nonverbal, between members of your team and patients, referring […]
As the societal trend swings even harder toward the communal and the cooperative, it’s more important than ever that medical groups understand that maintaining their relationships with hospitals requires breadth, depth, and length. This means involvement in a wide range of hospital and medical staff issues, leadership, not just participation, and commitment to a long […]
The Wall Street Journal reported that Japan’s 100 year old Sharp Corp. announced that it had doubts that it could remain as a going concern. Sharp had invested heavily in building liquid crystal display manufacturing plants in order to compete with its South Korean rivals, only to have the market collapse. Sharp’s president was quoted as […]
Many physician group leaders look at events and circumstances impacting their practice as something that is happening to their group. By definition, this orientation is external – on the something that is happening to them. Instead, in this context, group leader orientation should be internal: it should be on what they as group leaders, together […]
I remember watching my mother make bread – she always allowed time for the dough to rise before putting it into the oven; it’s a question of timing. There’s a significant amount of timing involved in respect of the negotiation of agreements between physician groups and hospitals, especially in connection with exclusive contracts. If the […]
If your medical group signals its weakness, it will become easy prey.
