“The New War
That Your Healthcare Organization Faces In the 21st
Century Requires Commitment, Discipline And On Going Maintenance To
Win This War Without Taking Too Many Casualties”
There is a new war being fought every day at
our nation’s healthcare organizations to find and sustain new
non-salary savings just to keep pace with inflation, new capital
expenditure requests and increases in your organization’s salaries,
benefits and malpractice insurance.
If you are serious about winning this war that
you are fighting to continually reduce your non-salary expenses
“beyond price™”, and in order to keep this momentum sustained
year in and year out you need to known the “three little known
secrets for non-salary expense reduction sustainability”. It
all starts with:
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A Committed Culture
The first
critical success factor in winning this war is to have all
levels of your organization’s management (executive suite and at
your department head and manager’s levels) committed to attacking
and rooting out all waste and inefficiency in your non-salary
expense value chain.
This commitment
can only be achieved by never-ending education for your
organization’s management and your department heads and managers on
the merits of attacking your non-salary expenses continuously, and
then engaging them in the development and maintenance of a “money
saving” system to root out any and all unwanted and unneeded
non-salary expenses.
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Discipline & Order
Without discipline
and order (or making people follow the rules of engagement) no
“money-saving” system can be sustained for very long. Simply stated,
discipline and order means holding your senior management and your
department heads and managers individually and mutually
accountable for their team efforts in reducing your non-salary
expenses.
And that’s not all
discipline and order means in a committed culture!
Your senior
management and department heads and managers will be required to
attend frequent team meetings and between these meetings do the
hard work of finding and rooting out all of your non-salary
expense excesses. In doing so, they will be required to set aside
the requisite time to search out these savings opportunities and to
manage the resources necessary to implement these savings
opportunities!
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On-Going Maintenance
Maintenance is the work that your team leaders need
to do regularly to keep your “money saving” system in good condition
and in good working order so that you can get 500,000 miles out of
it without too much wear and tear.
As opposed to the frequent management practice of
benign neglect,
quickly leads to a system breaking down and removed to the junk yard
of your “savings system” where all old systems find their final
resting place.
Maintenance means honing in on your team members’
feelings, actions and their method of doing their
work
by having frequent contact with them to assess their fitness, by
becoming aware of their feelings through regular feedback and by
exerting leadership when faced with conflicts vs. running away from
it.
These “three little known secrets for non-salary
expense reduction sustainability” should be your starting point
for building a “money savings” system that works year in and year
out to generate the savings your healthcare organization requires to
survive and thrive in the 21st century.
Robert T. Yokl, President, The HCP Group, Ltd., has over 35
years of experience as a consultant and manager in the field of
Supply Value Chain Management and is one of the country's leading
healthcare experts in value analysis, value engineering, Non Salary
Expense Reduction and materials
management. He is the developer and program leader of the award winning
Certified Value Analysis Practitioner Training Program™. Mr. Yokl is also
the developer of the healthcare industry's leading ValueNetCentral™ Value
Analysis Software. Over the past two decades he has trained thousands of
healthcare managers in his patented Strategic Value Analysis™ and
Team-Based Project Management™ processes and has assisted scores of
organizations in developing their own value management programs. He has
published six books, videos and audios on supply/value chain management.
His latest book being, “ Strategic Value Analysis™: The #1 Smart Strategy
for Taking Cost Out of a Healthcare Organizations’ Healthcare Supply Value Chain”.
by
Robert T. Yokl, President