Best Practices

Insightformation Teams with Thriving Weld to Garner National Attention

Insightformation Teams with Thriving Weld to Garner National Attention

At Insightformation, we believe we all deserve to be healthy. That's why we exist. So when our client partners in total population health garner national awards, we take pride in knowing our meaningful collaborations extend far beyond our business relationships. Thriving Weld is one of our current client partners garnering national attention for big, strategic results.

Who Gets Credit for Collective Impact?

While most organizations recognize that Collective Impact is invaluable in it’s ability to bring people together, encourage the sharing of resources and achieve wider results; however this approach fails to properly address the underlying fears and grant expectations that are placed on grantees. We know that in order to achieve …

Upgrading to a Digital Backbone

If you read about Backbone Support for Collective Impact, the typical approach to providing backbone support relies on appropriately-trained staff to achieve the desired coordination. The staff of the backbone organization spends most of its time managing information and communication. As described in the earlier posts, most of...

Continuous Communication

When partners set out to achieve Collective Impact and review the five conditions; Continuous Communication can feel like the ‘freebie’ and little to no time is spent on figuring out how to achieve it.  Coalitions operate with the mindset that just having more meetings will bring about the type of …

Strategy Management—Managing The Future

Numerous studies in the business world have shown that even when strategies are well-crafted, most organizations fall short when it comes to execution.  One key reason for this, I believe, is that organizational leaders are usually not equipped with the appropriate tools for strategic management.  Tools and techniques that help…

The Two Questions that Only the CEO Can Answer

Every employee wants to know where they fit and how their contribution matters within their organization. Unfortunately, few CEO’s actually take the time to clarify the bigger purpose, vision and strategy of their organization in meaningful terms that genuinely motivate employees. We have all felt the excitement and creative energy …

Who Owns the Alignment for EMR Deployments

I recently had an interesting discussion with some people who had been involved with selling and implementing Electronic Medical Records at various hospitals.   Everyone agreed that a successful deployment of EMR technologies required many different things to be aligned—process changes, training, physician engagement, system design and configuration that would support …