At Hess III Consulting, health and human services "strategy" isn't something we pluck out of thin air, but an data-driven process of identifying unmet needs in the community, understanding evidence-based models, and competitor intelligence and then crafting custom tailored products and solutions to produce desired results. We use a heavily data-driven approach that secures your success! 

Many organizations have a vision but no plan to get there. Effective strategy and planning ensures everyone in your organization have a shared vision, direction and clear plan to take your team from where you are today into where you seek to be tomorrow. Well designed strategies include monitoring and evaluation plans that give you data-driven insights to track your progress and know when its time to course correct. 

It depends! In today's competitive landscape, corporate strategic plans definitely help guide the future direction of the company as a whole. However, medium and large organizations should consider asking their departments for strategies to stay up to speed with the rapidly evolving changes of the industry. This includes: defining targeted strategies for: clinical services, business growth and development, health information technology, marketing and communications, compliance, quality management and population health, cultural and linguistic competency, network development and management etc. 

We offer a thorough, yet LEAN approach to strategy development. We will engage with your leadership to understand the scope of the strategy we are wanting to develop (e.g. annual strategic plan, growth, communications etc.). We typically recommend a rapid 360-degree assessment of current state and unmet needs. This can include reviewing existing documents and materials, interviewing key leaders, clients, and even external stakeholders. We'll summarize our findings and share them with your decision makers; and then either facilitate a strategic planning process or provide data-driven recommendations based on competitive intelligence, industry trends and our custom innovations; or BOTH! Once defined, we'll prepare a work plan with a monitoring plan to ensure you accurately track progress. We also enjoy sticking around and support implementation and remain available for technical assistance if their are questions along the way.