Over the past week the classmates in my Master's in Health-System Pharmacy Administration class discussed Pharmacy Forecast 2013-2017 along with our professor, ASHP Past-President Mick Hunt
Accuracy – delivers on-target forecasting; enables granularity and specificity Agility – delivers speed and flexibility in terms of strategic options Momentum – delivers continuity and minimizes disruption to the organization Foresight – delivers capability for sense making and scanning the external environment Tools to Develop Accuracy: Creating Order and Transparency Decision triggers Useful in complex, chaotic environments where decisions must be made quickly without a lot of discussion Put a clear stake in the ground in terms of creating a strategy that is simple and powerful so people throughout a department or organization can make decisions that align with broad objectives Most salient benefit is the efficiency it creates to enable people t understand what matters most to their organization?