News and Ideas

The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions has recently put together some good information to use when evaluating the changes taking place in the various segments in our health care marketplace. One of the segments that is changing most rapidly and... read more

Randy Pausch died the other day. He was 47 years old.

For those of you not familiar with Randy’s story, he was a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and told he would have... read more

We’re going to continue to experience some interesting times in our healthcare industry over the next year. Nobody can accurately predict what’s actually going to happen- but everyone agrees that something needs to be done. Our current... read more

It’s hard to believe that we’re already nearing the half-way point for 2008. We trust that your strategic plans are moving ahead full-throttle and you are on your way toward achieving the goals you have set both for yourself and your... read more

Over the past several months we’ve talked about many of the business aspects we believe are required to operate successfully in the health care system of tomorrow.

These topics included some of the basic business fundamentals... read more

In his book “The World is Flat”, Thomas Friedman provides a dramatic documentary around how rapidly the world is changing. One thing is made perfectly (and frighteningly) clear throughout his writing; the world is changing at a breakneck... read more

We’ve used this title from a book by Rick Page frequently over the years to emphasize the importance of the need for having a defined strategy to help guide organizations in making decisions and determining their direction. We’ve always... read more

One of the key ideas we try to get across in our work with clients is our belief that having a clear definition of who you are and what you do can be a key predictor of the success of any organization or project. Especially in health care, having... read more

In his book, Only the Paranoid Survive, former Intel CEO Andy Grove put forward the argument that every business, organization, and individual will encounter “strategic inflection points” throughout their existence that can impact their... read more

We wish you much success and growth in the year ahead.

Last year a friend of ours introduced us to the “Blue Ocean” way of thinking. We always try to help clients think out of the box as they develop their strategies in a... read more

Happy Holidays to everyone. And we wish you a fulfilling and prosperous new year.

In this newsletter we’ll be using an article recently published in the Harvard Business Review as a framework to discuss some of the traits that... read more

Welcome to Collaboration Health Care’s November, 2007 newsletter. We’ll be using this newsletter as one means to communicate news, views, opinions, and comments to help encourage dialogue to facilitate change within our health care... read more