From the Inside Flap
Written by John D. Blair and Myron D. Fottler and cosponsored by the Medical Group Management Association and the Center for Research in Ambulatory Health Care Administration—leaders in the physician group practice and management field—this essential resource synthesizes the most current research into medical group practices. Strategic Leadership for Medical Groups charts powerful business strategies for operating within integrated health care organizations and offers medical group executives and physician leaders the tools and information to help them succeed in making infrastructure investments, choosing partners, and selecting merger targets.Blair and Fottler outline four key concepts—Strategic Web, Strategic Navigation, Web Navigation, and Strategic Web Navigation—and provide practical toolkits tailored to meet the challenges of the medical group's constantly changing environment. These powerful strategies and tools can be used to:
- Assess and manage the interplay of the many relationships with key stakeholders as an essential part of medical groups' strategic environments.
- Position medical groups within their competitive environment
- Manage relationships with key stakeholders who can support or threaten organizations
- Integrate strategic and web navigation to operate successfully within medical groups' respective strategic websIn addition, the authors describe the four types of organizations navigating the medical group practice environment and offer vital information for assessing an organization's position within the strategic web.
Strategic Leadership for Medical Groups is a road map to excellence for any leader who must guide traditional strategic management issues and identify, assess, and manage strategic relationships with other organizations to provide well-coordinated, cost-effective, high-quality medicine.
From the Back Cover
Strategic Leadership for Medical Groups is an essential planning tool written for health care leaders who are charged with developing and sustaining superlative medical group practices in the turbulent world of integrated healthcare systems.
