Consolidating multiple information technology teams into a shared service organization.

Utilizing technology-based process improvements to provide better care and help address clinician burnout.

All organizations have limited resources, so it is critical to determine the objectives and initiatives that are most important to the organization and say “no” to those that are not a priority. To develop an effective strategy, leaders must prioritize goals and objectives, requiring due diligence, prioritization, and planning to make the best use of scarce resources. In part two of a two-part series, Arkan Kayihan shares Expanded Functions for Strategy Planning & Strategy Development teams.

All organizations have limited resources, so it is critical to determine the objectives and initiatives that are most important to the organization and say “no” to those that are not a priority. To develop an effective strategy, leaders must prioritize goals and objectives, requiring due diligence, prioritization, and planning to make the best use of scarce resources. In part one of a two-part series, Arkan Kayihan shares Core Functions for Strategy Planning & Strategy Development teams.

While demands on the system were overwhelming and unexpected, nurse-led innovation from simple to complex was unfolding in institutions around the country.

Forum Solutions’ five-part series: Business Value Creation - Post Pandemic can help you evolve your vision, strengthen your leadership and culture, inspire and engage your workforce of the future, and ultimately build your resiliency. In this post, we discuss how to develop your leadership and company culture.

How Forum Solutions helped FareStart expand their reach and help homeless and low-income individuals escape poverty in the Seattle community.

How Forum Solutions helped a multi-national organization re-open individual sites safely while following local guidelines in each region, post COVID pandemic.

Forum helped a new leader define her organizational structure, orient around a common vision and measure their progress.

Forum’s real-world Return to Workplace experience and decades of expertise in leading critical programs and projects across many industries inform our Return to Workplace Playbook.

The COVID-19 pandemic will not end with the flip of a switch, however businesses that respond to the current predicament while re-thinking the future will be more robust and resilient. Planning the restart of operations can seem daunting: How do you protect employees, partners, customers, and communities in an ever-changing environment? Just because a workplace reopens, that does not mean a return to “normalcy”.

Mergers and partnerships help organizations scale their business and retain, or even increase market share. The stakes are high and the margin for error is low. How do you go about successfully aligning two organizations - separated by 2,600+ miles, an ocean, and a time zone?

According to the American Council on Education, women have earned half or more of all baccalaureate degrees for the past three decades and half of all doctoral degrees for almost a decade. However, despite the number of female graduates available for leadership positions, globally the proportion of senior business roles held by women stands at 24%, up slightly from 22% in 2015 (Forbes). Forum Solutions’ Marissa Iannarone shares her recommendations to inspire and accelerate female leaders.

By taking a step back and evaluating business needs and expectations before hiring new IT leadership, Forum was able to identify Capital Benefit Group’s opportunities to add capabilities, close blind spots, and focus attention on the evolving external environment.

Many health systems are experimenting with ways to lessen the burden on primary care, including changing scheduling practices to accommodate different types of visits, implementing call centers, and creating value-based (rather than volume based) compensation plans. Some are providing scribes, a third person in the room (or virtually) documenting the visit in the medical record in “real” time.