Strategy and Innovation

January/February 2026

Discover how workplace gamification boosts team engagement, productivity, and training in healthcare. Learn best practices, pitfalls, features, tools, and metrics.

December 31, 2025

Effective financial planning ensures organizational resilience during crises by emphasizing liquidity, monitoring, revenue stability, and preparedness.

Effective leaders rely on advisors: role models, mentors, coaches, and sponsors, plus champions, advocates, supporters, and endorsers. Each plays a unique role.

Healthcare can learn from other industries, like hospitality and baseball, to improve patient experiences, loyalty, and service quality through shared principles.

December 18, 2025

Change can be scary, which can activate the brain’s fight or flight response. So how can senior leaders help calm that threat response when introducing change initiatives?

December 8, 2025

Effective project management in medical practices involves careful planning, cost estimation, task organization, and scheduling to ensure timely, budget-conscious completion.

December 7, 2025

This year, three major studies have examined the human behavioral side of AI. OpenAI’s usage report, Anthropic’s Economic Index, and the author’s own social listening research, each shed a different light on what we’re doing with generative AI. The p...

Healthcare Insights: Curated for HALM November/December 2025

The article examines medical tourism's growth, highlighting primary care's role in ensuring safety, coordinating care, evaluating providers, and managing follow-up.

November 10, 2025

Political and regulatory whiplash is forcing companies to rethink how they weather hostile environments. Beyond the familiar strategy of speaking out against policy or exiting business lines, strategic hibernation offers a way to preserve core capabi...

November 9, 2025

Every medical practice will face problems, complications, and, perhaps, even a crisis. These are part and parcel of our profession and cannot be avoided. These are the pitfalls and potholes that confront every practicing physician and medical practic...

November 3, 2025

Massachusetts promotes responsible gambling through its GameSense program, tackling addiction via education, regulations, and spending limits amid industry growth.

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