At The Forefront Issue-1 May 2024
A Spark of Possibility
In this issue Leadership author Deborah Smith discusses many of the unique challenges faced by women in leadership roles and how she overcame them.
At The Forefront Issue-2 June 2024
Navigating Transformation With Senior Management
In this issue, Change Management expert Sharon Hardigree discusses the complexities of large-scale transformation and how to effectively coach senior leadership in navigating these challenges
At The Forefront Issue-3 July 2024
Creating A Wait-Free Emergency Room Experience
In this issue, Emergency Room Doctor and Ph.D. Industrial Engineer Dr. Marty Lucenti discusses how to create a wait-free Emergency Room (ER) experience by understanding the ER as a complex adaptive system.
At The Forefront Issue-4 August 2024
It Worked Then, But Will It Work Now
In this issue, Emergency Room Doctor and Ph.D. Industrial Engineer Dr. Marty Lucenti and Bradley Schultz discuss the difference between optimizing performance within ordered systems and the unique challenges presented by complex adaptive systems
At The Forefront Issue-5 September 2024
Why Organizations Fail to Achieve Their Strategy...and what to do about it
In this issue, Bradley Schultz draws on twenty-five years of strategy deployment consulting experience to explain why 90% of organizations fail to achieve their strategy and what the successful 10% had that others did not.
At The Forefront Issue-6 January 2025
Unpacking the Acute Care Crisis: Exploring the Shortage of Hospital Beds and the Factors Fueling It in the U.S. Part-1 of 3
In this issue, Bradley Schultz & Dr. Marty Lucenti discuss how the shortage of acute care beds is approaching crisis levels, the causal factors driving the shortage, and how understanding these factors is critical to developing a viable and sustainable solution.
At The Forefront Issue-7 February 2025
Unpacking the Acute Care Crisis: Exploring the Shortage of Hospital Beds and the Factors Fueling It in the U.S. Part-2 of 3
In this issue, Bradley Schultz & Dr. Marty Lucenti discuss how first-order design flaws within the healthcare delivery system, combined with the complex-adaptive nature of healthcare delivery, significantly challenge improvement attempts that rely on continuous incremental improvement activity.
At The Forefront Issue-8 May 2025
Unpacking the Acute Care Crisis: Exploring the Shortage of Hospital Beds and the Factors Fueling It in the U.S. Part-2 of 3
This is the third and final installment of the series. In it we discuss the use of a dual, Transformation A, Transformation B approach to overcome the challenges presented in part one of the series and to address the complex-adaptive nature of the system.