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Walter DouglasChief Operating OfficerRutgers New Jersey Medical School

and

Linda ReimannChief of Staff/Assistant Dean Strategic InitiativesUniversity of California, Riverside School of Medicine

February 12, 2019

GIP Strategic Planning and Management

Subcommittee Webinar:

Tips and Tools to

Successfully Implement a

Strategic Plan

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At the end of today’s session, you will have a greater understanding of:

✓ How to successfully implement your strategic plan – including the major barriers to implementation

✓ Measuring success and increasing transparency and accountability

✓ Change management tools and the importance of communication and alignment

Today’s Objectives

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Congratulations!!

However, many institutions put a lot of time, resources and effort into developing a strategic plan…

…and implementation is almost an afterthought.

So You’ve Got a Strategic Plan!

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DREAM

PLAN

DO

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?!...

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How Do We Move from This…

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…To This

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Culture Strategy

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Barriers to Implementation

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❑ Failure to integrate strategic plan into operating plans

and budgets

❑ Insufficient leadership accountability and

communication

❑ Lack of clarity on and/or reporting of key metrics

❑ “Set it and forget it” mentality

❑ Unclear prioritization – “fighting fires”

❑ And so many more…

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Plan for Implementation

Implementation Plans

Business Plans

Operating Plans

Annual Objectives and Budgets at the Unit Level

Measure and Communicate

Dashboards

Roll Up/Roll Down Metrics

Leader Oversight and Engagement

Manage Change

Celebrating Success

Identifying and Addressing Barriers

Implementing Your Strategic Plan

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Planning for Implementation

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Planning for Implementation

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Measuring and Communicating

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• Language Matters

• Nothing Beats FaceTime

• Messaging

• Collateral

Socializing Change

• Metrics that Matter

• Dashboards

• Charts

• Infographs

Tools

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Measuring and Communicating

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Measuring and Communicating

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Measuring and Communicating

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Leadership, Authority, Responsibility

Managing the Change Process

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Leadership is responsible for defining the vision

• Executives

• Governance Committee

Authority is responsible for directing the vision

• Senior Management Team

• Steering Committee

Responsibility for executing the vision

• Project Manager/Project Lead

• Operations and Management

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Plan for Implementation

Measure and Communicate

Manage Change

Implementing Your Strategic Plan

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Discussion and Questions

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GIP Upcoming Events

GBA/GDI/GIP Joint Spring MeetingApril 9-12, 2019Fairmont Chicago–Millennium ParkChicago, IllinoisRegistration is open on the AAMC GIP website

GIP/GRAND/GBA Symposium: Strengthening the Resilience of the Academic Medicine CommunitySeptember 5-6, 2019AAMC Learning CenterWashington, D.C.

Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual MeetingNovember 8-12, 2019Phoenix, Ariz.

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