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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:
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.
DAVID A. SHORE, PhD, is former associate dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and founding director of the Program in Program Management. He is on the faculty of Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Organizational Development and Change at the University of Monterrey Business School, Mexico. His previous book is Forces of Change: New Strategies for the Evolving Health Care Marketplace (also from Jossey-Bass).
Preface
Acknowledgements
The Author
PART ONE: 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 TWO: 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 THREE: 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
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