StrategyDriven Enterprises Extends its Advisory Services into the Healthcare Industry, Partners with Artower Advisory Services

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StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Artower Advisory Services, LLC partner to provide healthcare industry executives and managers with Affordable Care Act mandated Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) program consulting services.
 
 
Healthcare ConsultingStrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and Artower Advisory Services announced a partnership that will expand the regulatory compliance services of both companies. The relationship combines StrategyDriven’s leading experience in quality assurance and performance improvement regulatory services with Artower’s healthcare industry expertise.

“Healthcare industry leaders must find cost effective ways to meet the new quality assurance and performance improvement mandates of the Affordable Care Act,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s Chief Executive Officer. “We believe by leveraging experiences from other industries that for decades have complied with similar mandates, healthcare executives can not only meet and exceed these ACA requirements, but do so in a highly cost effective manner.”

“We are excited about the opportunity to combine StrategyDriven’s capabilities with Artower’s healthcare industry experience,” asserts Scot Park, Artower’s Chief Executive Officer. “This partnership will create out-of-the-box products and provide advisory services that enable healthcare organizations, both large and small, to rapidly achieve cost effective compliance with the ACA’s mandates while simultaneously driving improved patient care.”

The StrategyDriven / Artower team provides healthcare industry leaders with an array of actionable performance improvement and regulatory compliance support in the areas of:

  • Self-assessment programs
  • Corrective action programs
  • Organizational performance monitoring programs
  • Risk assurance programs

About StrategyDriven

StrategyDriven provides executives and managers with the planning and execution advice, tools, and practices needed to create greater organizational alignment and accountability for the achievement of superior results. We believe a clear, forward-looking strategy, translatable to the day-to-day activities of all organization members, is critical to realizing success in today’s fast paced market environment. Not only does a compelling, well-executed strategy align individuals to common goals, it ensures those goals best serve the company’s mission.

At StrategyDriven, our seasoned business leaders deliver real-world strategic business planning and tactical execution best practice advice – a blending of workplace experience with sound research and academic principles – to business leaders who may not otherwise have access to these resources.

StrategyDriven refers to the family of organizations comprising StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC. For more information, please visit www.StrategyDriven.com.

About Artower Advisory Services

Headquartered in Willoughby, Ohio, Artower Advisory Services’ professionals support healthcare industry leaders throughout the United States. The Artower team has expertise in senior housing, aging services, post-acute/long-term care, and behavioral health. Several of our senior professionals previously held leadership positions within major healthcare organizations. Artower’s project teams work collaboratively across disciplines to deliver greater value through improved outcomes, integrated delivery, and lower cost. For more information, visit www.ArtowerAdvisory.com.

StrategyDriven White Paper Advises Leaders on Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents

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StrategyDriven’s Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents reveals how high-risk industry leaders can reduce their significant event risk exposure through application of safety-first principles.
 
 
StrategyDriven Safety Culture Point of View DocumentStrategyDriven released Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents, a white paper revealing how high-risk industry leaders can reduce their significant event risk exposure through the cost effective adaptation of key aspects of the U.S. nuclear industry’s safety-first principles.

After the several recent catastrophic industrial accidents within the United States, including the devastating explosions at a Texas fertilizer plant and Louisiana chemical plant, StrategyDriven wanted to help industrial and utility leaders reduce the risk of similar accidents at their facilities.

“Many of today’s significant industrial accidents are preventable, the byproduct of human errors made when safety was subordinated to other priorities,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “By fostering an organizational culture that puts safety-first, executives and managers create a workplace environment where errors are recognized and proactively corrected before they result in a material event.”

“An effective safety culture is far more than slogans and posters,” continues Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operations Officer. “It permeates the organization’s performance standards, operating processes, training programs, rewards systems, and, most importantly, the decisions and behaviors of everyone from the C-Suite to the shop floor.”

Nathan and Greg authored Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents based on their decades of experience managing nuclear and industrial complex operations. Additionally, Nathan led the development of the nuclear industry’s operational risk management, high-risk decision management, and plant operations performance standards while working at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations.

Highlights from Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents include:

  • Safety Culture Attributes – safety focused executives, managers, and employees collectively assume responsibility for both their and their co-workers’ safety; embody a questioning attitude; encourage issue reporting and priority-based resolution; employ error reduction techniques; embed safety-first features within operational, training, and rewards programs; and embrace ongoing organizational learning
  • Identifying the Strength of Your Safety Culture – artifacts of the safety-first values are not only found in the outcomes achieved, but also reside in the organization’s goals and performance measures, standards and expectations, policies and procedures, rewards systems, training, and organizational learning and continuous improvement programs
  • Improving Your Safety Culture – individuals at all levels of the organization must be engaged in order to foster a robust safety culture; originating from executive defined attributes and goals and translated to the day-to-day decisions and actions of all employees

Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents is being distributed to StrategyDriven’s clients, including some of the world’s largest utility operators. Download the white paper by clicking here.

About the Authors

Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal is a StrategyDriven Principal, and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven PrincipalGreg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. An experienced Operations Manager, he has managed critical Department of Defense programs, projects, and business lines; spanning multiple engineering maintenance disciplines including mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and instrumentation and controls systems. To read Greg’s complete biography, click here.

StrategyDriven’s Online Advisory Forum – The Advisor’s Corner

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StrategyDriven's Online Advisory Forum - The Advisor's CornerAs a business leader, you face mission-critical challenges every day. Working through these important issues in a deliberate way increases your chances of making the right decisions.

So does having an experienced, outside perspective. To further aid you in your ongoing strategic planning and tactical business execution decisions, StrategyDriven is proud to host an online advisory forum, The Advisor’s Corner. This forum provides you an opportunity to pose questions anonymously and receive real-world insights from our experienced business advisors and community professionals. Questions and answers are published in The Advisor’s Corner for the benefit of all site visitors; providing an ever growing library of experiences for you to draw from.

Submit your questions to The Advisor’s Corner by email at: [email protected]. Let us know your question’s priority and response by date so we can reply in a timely manner. All questions submitted will remain anonymous to maintain confidentiality.

Want to learn more?

Click here to visit The Advisor’s Corner and learn from the many questions and answers already posted within this unique knowledge sharing forum!

StrategyDriven Launches Operational Risk Management Resource Forum

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StrategyDriven is proud to announce the launch of a risk management resource forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help leaders effectively address their most pressing operational risks.
 
 
StrategyDriven Risk Management Resource ForumAfter seeing the devastation from the Texas fertilizer plant and Louisiana chemical plant explosions, StrategyDriven wanted to help industrial and utility leaders better identify, mitigate, and control their operational risks to prevent similar accidents from occurring at their facilities.

“The unfortunate reality is that industrial accidents are increasingly likely in a world challenged to produce more, faster, and with fewer resources while also dealing with the significant loss of operating experience resulting from the retirement of baby boomers,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “To help clients combat these risks, StrategyDriven advisors, applying decades of nuclear and high-risk industrial operations experience, authored a library of operational risk management tools easily accessible from our online risk management forum.”

Developed by highly experienced nuclear and industrial complex leaders, StrategyDriven‘s risk management resource forum provides actionable methods and tools executives and managers can use to identify, assess, prioritize, monitor, mitigate, and control their operational risks. Thought leadership items contained within the forum focus on topics such as:

  • Operational Risk Quantification – identification of unique risk index values associated with potentially adverse events enabling prioritization of their mitigators relative to the organization’s portfolio of operational activities and strategic initiatives
  • Integrated Enterprise Risk Assurance Mapping – visualization of the relationships between enterprise risks and their associated processes while concurrently revealing the degree of oversight applied to these processes
  • High-Risk Decision Management – identification, selection, and implementation of action plans to address strategically important and operationally hazardous circumstances, the outcomes of which impact the safety and reliability of employees and assets

The risk management forum’s thought leadership documents are being distributed to StrategyDriven‘s clients, including some of the world’s largest utility operators. These documents can be accessed by clicking here.

When in the Course of human events… a nation was born

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When in the Course of human events... a nation was born
 
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
 
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
July 4, 1776
 
 
On July 4, 1776, fifty-six individuals boldly signed what became one of the most revered statements of human rights the world has ever known, The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. In that moment, the American republic was born.

Freedom is not without cost. Indeed, to conclude their assertion of freedom from the British Crown, the American Founders solemnly pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. And each and every day since declaring independence, brave Americans have sacrificed both blood and treasure to secure the blessings of freedom for themselves, their children, and their fellow citizens within the global community.

On this Fourth of July, the StrategyDriven family gives thanks for the freedom that allows us to share our thoughts and beliefs with you and for those who have and continue to provide that freedom.

Happy Birthday, America! With best wishes for many, many more to come.

All the Best,
Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal
Nathan Ives
President and CEO
StrategyDriven