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Strategy, Leadership, Governance, Performance

JOHN H. HYLTON & Associates

Best Practices In Strategic Planning: Lessons From Three Regions

• Dr. John H. Hylton,

FCCHSE, FACHE

John H. Hylton & Assoc.

Strategic Planning Best Practices . . same old, same old

• Make the decision to plan
• Plan to plan
• Review mission, vision

and values

• SWOT analysis
• Identify strategic priorities
• Consider alternatives and

make decisions

• Develop an implementation plan
• Monitor and evaluate
• Communicate and celebrate

The Problem Is . . .

• 90% of healthcare organizations run

without a plan

• Of the 10% that have a plan,

90% fail to execute their strategies successfully

• 86% of executive teams spend less than one hour per

month discussing strategy

• 95% of a typical workforce doesn’t understand its
• rganization’s strategy
• 60% of organizations don’t link strategy to budgeting
• 75% of organizations don’t link employee incentives and

performance management to strategy

The Leadership Challenge . . .

• How to work with competing priorities and competing

interests to make intelligent strategic choices in a constantly evolving and shifting environment

The Leadership Choice . . .

• To be intentional about the path our organizations follow - or

to turn on autopilot

• To plot our course before we set out - or to go with the flow
• This requires a judgment about how we think we are most

likely to get to our destination.

As my boss once said . . .

Ideas are a dime a dozen . . . But the person who can implement them . . .

Priceless

Outline

• What occasioned your strategic planning exercise -under

what circumstances was it undertaken?

• How did you proceed and why did you proceed in the way

that you did?

• What were the results and what is the current status of the

work?

• What major obstacles did you have to overcome?
• What were the major lessons learned?
• Thinking about the regional context, what difference did

that make to the process, the obstacles, the outcomes?

Our speakers . . .

Howard Waldner Shan Landry Rob Devitt