Game Changers - Restructuring (continued...)

Now, I’m not suggesting that “the sky is falling” but the imperative to re-imagine, re-structure, re-tool, and re-create health service practices should be obvious. The signs and symptoms are all around us.


Leading practices are pausing to take the time to carefully examine practice performance, to reassess purpose and priorities, to reconsider business models, to redesign operating systems. to streamline processes, to reinvent service offerings, to re-message marketing, to redistribute responsibility and accountability, to reinvigorate or replace staff, and to reap new rewards.


“To become something new we must first acquire all that we can no longer be.” – Kevin Kelly


Every practice begins with an entrepreneur’s vision and passion. Risks are taken and along hours are committed to make things work – there’s no excess baggage and focus is keen. But over time, entrepreneurs settle-in or move-on. Practice priorities shift from “make it work” to “keep it working”. There is a certain comfort, albeit a false comfort, in status-quo. Remaking a Practice requires a return to its entrepreneurial roots which may, or may not, have remained with the practice.


Restructuring for success begins with an entrepreneur’s vision and passion... something leading practices understand and something other practices will never quite get.


It’s very likely that your practice is built on a foundation of management philosophies, business models, marketing strategies, clinical techniques, and operational systems that are at least three to four decades old. It’s prudent to ask if that foundation is sustainable for another decade or more.


This year, 2010, marks the beginning of a new decade. Is it time for you to wring out the old and ring in the new? Is it time for your Extreme Practice Makeover? Will your practice value rise with its relevance or fall with its failure?


It has been said that, “Every practice is perfectly designed to get the results it gets!” What is the design of your practice?


Today there is an opportunity for you to decide. Tomorrow the market may decide for you.


In my next post, we will consider game changing productivity.


All The Best!


Bob


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