Collaboration Trumps Control

November 28, 2011 | Priors

Top-down, authoritarian leadership in health care’s new era of collaboration is likely to find its currency on the decline. Particularly in a wired specialty such as radiology, leaders will be challenged to engage an increasingly distributed workforce in the broader team approach called for by new delivery models... Read More »

A Conversation With Douglas G. Smith: The Business-intelligence Imperative

October 31, 2010 | MedAnalytx

Today, more than ever, imaging providers must harness the power of actionable business intelligence in all aspects of their operations, including the communication of quantifiable outcomes to payors, client hospitals, referrers, and patients. Such is the strategy to be explored in each issue of RadAnalytics, under the MedAnalytix.com... Read More »

Institutionalizing Innovation

October 13, 2010 | Leadership

When the McKinsey Global Institute (London) asked more than 1,400 executives how important innovation was to their companies’ future growth, 70% said it was crucial, but only 35% were very confident in their ability to execute it.

The problem is that too many enterprises treat innovation as a sideshow, according... Read More »

What Imaging Leaders Should Know About Teamwork

August 15, 2010 | The Big Picture

The following is not a trick question: What does the US Army’s legendary 82nd Airborne Division have in common with today’s medical-imaging profession? On the surface, probably not a lot; beneath the surface, however, I’ve seen quite a bit that our profession can learn from the... Read More »

The Industrial-strength Imaging Executive

July 14, 2010 | The Big Picture

Today’s medical-imaging profession is definitely not for the fragile and weak-kneed among our colleagues. It is becoming increasingly clear that navigating the constant changes and challenges that face the practice of radiology today will be the ultimate test of tenacity, perseverance, and creativity. We’re in the playoffs... Read More »

Mindful Cost Cutting

July 06, 2010 | Priors

Consider this scenario: You have exercised your duties as a manager over the past several years by cutting costs where possible, but now, you have been ordered to make further administrative cost reductions of 10%, 20%, or even 30%, and you cannot fathom how it will be done. Does this sound familiar?<... Read More »

Scanning Imaging’s Deals

December 01, 2009 | Final Read

Among the more interesting dramas unfolding in the medical imaging profession these days are the number and variety of transactions that are either in the pipeline, in the process of due diligence, or otherwise in some organization’s strategic plan for 2010. Consolidation is one of the indicators of a... Read More »

A Cure for the Decision-making Disorder

December 01, 2009 | Leadership

Five centuries ago, the Roman Catholic Church introduced the devil’s advocate for the express purpose of countering arguments in favor of canonization. It’s too bad that Time Warner, Yahoo, and George W. Bush did not have devil’s advocates at hand when they decided to buy AOL,... Read More »

Forging Multigenerational Teams in Radiology

September 11, 2009 | RadBrand Builder

A satisfied generation X worker is getting more than a paycheck—and is doing more than following instructions, according to Lisa Landry, MBA, MRT(N), Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit. Landry is a member of generation X, so she brought an insider’s knowledge to “Satisfying Generation X:... Read More »

The Leadership Balance: People and Performance

September 01, 2008 | Priors

Every company is, at once, two things: an economic organization whose survival depends on delivering value in an unforgiving market and a social institution with deep impact on the lives of its employees. The successful CEO must achieve a critical balance between the needs of shareholders and those of... Read More »

Manage People as Assets, Not Costs

March 15, 2007 | Legislative Report

The best path to profitability in a global economy is not technology but effective management of an organization’s human resources, according to Laurie Bassi and Daniel McMurrer, authors of “Maximizing Your Return on People” in the March issue of the Harvard Business Review. The authors contend that investments... Read More »

Investment in Human Capital

September 15, 2006 | NONE

While organizations will spend millions of dollars to purchase new technology or to upgrade equipment, they will allocate relatively little to train the staff who are actually charged with operating this expensive capital.

If you look at it on a percentage basis, I think the numbers will... Read More »