Book description
Implement change that fosters sustainable growth and better patient care
Health care projects depend on astute management of change. But more than anything else, they depend on leaders who pay attention, who understand the importance of starting right, and who know how to launch projects that succeed. If leaders can increase the percentage of successful projects, patients, and practitioners everywhere will be better off and so will the organizations that depend on these projects for innovation.
In Launching and Leading Change Initiatives in Health Care Organizations: Managing Successful Projects. Author David A. Shore of the Harvard School of Public Health speaks directly to the health care leaders and managers who see the need for change, but keep encountering nearly insurmountable challenges. Through his research, Shore discovered that most implementation failures occur because of a poor launch, and that strengthening processes and operations during the early weeks of a new project is a key to continued success. The book covers issues like:
The preliminary groundwork that cultivates a stronger launch
Systematic and selective project selection
Building the team that accomplishes change
Skill-building and record-keeping systems that foster sustainable growth
Launching and Leading Change Initiatives in Health Care Organizations gives leaders and managers the practical, easy-to-implement ideas and methodologies to start and manage projects successfully.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- List of Figures and Tables
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Author
- Part 1: Changing Health Care
- Introduction: The Need for Change
- Chapter 1: How Organizations Can Really Change
- Chapter 2: Criteria for an Initiative's Success
- Chapter 3: Planning: Seeds of Success and Failure
- Part 2: Select the Right Projects
- Introduction: The Crowded Runway
- Chapter 4: Identifying and Creating the Right Initiatives
- Chapter 5: Selecting, Prioritizing, and Monitoring Change Initiatives
- Part 3: Choose the Right People
- Introduction: How Important Are Decisions about People?
- Chapter 6: What You Are Looking For
- Chapter 7: Assembling the Individuals for a Change Event
- Chapter 8: Converting Individuals into a Project Implementation Team
- Chapter 9: The First Mile and Beyond
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Launching and Leading Change Initiatives in Health Care Organizations: Managing Successful Projects
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2014
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9781118099148
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