Getting to Ah Ha: Turning Data into Information Tools and Techniques for Making an Impact - Deep Dive Series

Wednesday, April 07, 2010
8:30 AM – 2:00 PM

Presentation Summary

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Many organizations are good at collecting data. To make the data useful, an organization must turn it into the “right” information to guide decision-making. Senior planning and financial managers—if not increasingly having to do the work on their own—must, at a minimum, be able to effectively direct their staff. Planning and finance staff needs to be comfortable with going beyond the analysis to effectively communicate what’s important.

Join Susanna Krentz and Tracey Camp of Krentz Consulting as they help you focus on asking the right questions and thinking from different perspectives. They will present tips and tricks on packaging data to draw strategically-relevant conclusions; and provide practical group exercises and feedback with real-life data challenges.

Target Audience
• Planning professionals
• Finance professionals

Group Exercises
Participants of the workshop will be asked to provide, in advance, up to 5 pages of standard reports or presentations which are currently provided to senior management/Board that they feel could benefit from more effective presentation.* You may want to look at the following for ideas of what to send in:
• Demographic information
• Market share
• Utilization trends and service line profiles
• Financial presentations
• Competitor analyses
• Satisfaction survey results

We will start with presenting a few “before and after” examples, but then ask small groups to test their new skills by offering suggestions on how they would enhance “information challenged” presentations. This session will not require that participants bring a computer or have word processing skills.

*Interested participants should only send/share information that is “blinded” or which they are comfortable sharing un-blinded with the larger group. Material must be sent electronically to Donna Powell, NESHS Administrator admin@neshs.org no later than March 25, 2010. While an effort will be made to include all of the material received, we cannot guarantee your materials will be used.

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Presenter Information

Susanna Krentz, President – Krentz Consulting LLC
Tracey Camp, Senior Consultant – Krentz Consulting LLC


Susanna has over twenty-nine years experience as a healthcare consultant. As a recognized leader in strategy development for healthcare organizations, she has worked with numerous hospitals and healthcare systems across the county in the development of strategic plans, physician strategy, growth plans, and competitive strategy. She is an expert facilitator, able to work with diverse groups across a wide range of issues.

Before founding Krentz Consulting in 2009, Susanna was Director of the private healthcare advisory practice at Noblis, a non-profit science, technology, and strategy organization. Before that she spent 20 years with Jennings Ryan & Kolb, a national consulting firm providing strategic and financial planning assistance to healthcare providers.

Tracey, Senior Consultant, has worked in the healthcare industry for 24 years. She started her healthcare consulting career in 1987 at Jennings Ryan & Kolb, and continued with the practice after it was acquired by Noblis in 2004. Prior to consulting, Tracey was a technical researcher at the Center for Health Services and Policy Research at Northwestern University.



Location
Waltham Woods Conference Center
860 Winter Street, Waltham, MA

Agenda
8:30 - 9:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - Noon Morning Session with networking break
Noon - 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 PM Afternoon Session
Investment
NESHS & HFMA Members: $95
Non-members: $125


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