Health
care delivery is undergoing a monumental transformation
in Canada. For health care companies, market growth is minuscule,
competition is consolidating, the regulatory environment remains challenging,
and health professionals are no longer making the decisions. Most
important, the successful strategies of the 80's no longer make sense.
If the Brass Ring is awarded for Success, wherein lies the Key?
Continued success meand strategic partnering, risk-sharing, profitable
decisions making and fast action. With corporate restructuring, downsizing,
"rightsizing" and reengineering, one striking realization has emerged:
results must be delivered faster, and with fewer resources. Herein
lies the Key.
In a rapidly changing environment, opportunities can be short-lived
and time sensitive. Tightly focused, hit-and-run strategies may be
best. However, quick-response flexibility with human resources is
usually not practical. Personnel additions are assumed to be long
term. And, with growing pressure to reduce headcounts, such strategies
can be impractical; certainly at odds with the required short-term,
high intensity tactics of guerilla warfare. This has changed. |
