Email: wwoodson@sg2.com
It is easy to succumb to business fog during a public health crisis. The COVID-19 outbreak is not only a clinical challenge, but also a pressure test for strategic initiatives...
This year Sg2 is spending considerable time delving into where things currently stand in scaling the health care enterprise and what promise has yet to be fulfilled.
For too long, health systems have exploited only a fraction of the potential value available through economies of scale. Scale historically has amounted strictly to the financial levers of reduced...
Making decisions is what management is all about. The higher you rise in an organization, the tougher the decisions get—the stakes are higher, there are fewer obvious choices and it’s...
Are we there yet? On your annual family road trip, this question sounds all too familiar. At Sg2, we continue to hear this question every day as it relates to virtual health...
What consumer doesn’t love a good price war? Savvy shoppers have been the beneficiaries of ferocious pricing wars among airlines, wireless carriers and big box retailers just to name a...
Primal forces are driving action in local health care markets and forcing health systems to prove their value and relevance to consumers, payers, employers and other stakeholders. Last month’s Sg2...
Rumors and announcements of health plan mergers and acquisitions have only accelerated discussions among health system executives about how much more provider consolidation is likely to occur over the next...
