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  Overview

Across a broad variety of industries, a few high velocity organizations outperform their competition. Though competing in the same markets for the same customers — offering similar products and services, reliant on the same suppliers, and subject to the same rules and regulations — these organizations nevertheless generate more value in less time, with less effort, and at a lower cost. The result is growing market share and higher margins, with success paying dividends to all concerned: customers, suppliers, employees, and shareholders.

Leaders of such high velocity organizations share a secret to success: innovation is so organically institutionalized that no one can match their speed, endurance, or breadth. When faced with the common challenges of identifying market needs and then developing product and service designs to meet those needs, they innovate to overcome all uncertainty in the process.

Join the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) for the new seminar How Market Leaders Outpace the Competition: High Velocity Health Care Organizations and explore how health care leaders leverage operational excellence to achieve quality, affordability, and access. This exciting two-day program for senior leaders will be led by Steven Spear, Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and IHI Senior Fellow.

 Who Should Attend
 What You'll Learn

Leaders — formal and informal — who are responsible for driving quality and patient safety endeavors, including:

  • Chief Executive Officers
  • Chief Nursing Officers
  • Chief Operating Officers
  • Chief Financial Officers
  • Department chairs
  • Executive management
  • Vice Presidents

During this program, participants will:

  • Understand the core, idiosyncratic capabilities that characterize the most innovative organizations
  • Explore how these capabilities can be effectively applied in their particular work
  • Identify what leaders need to do to cultivate and apply the capabilities
  • Develop an action plan for initial test of concept
 Additional Resources
  • Visit our Leading System Improvement Topic area for specific change ideas, tools, improvement stories, emerging content, and more.