OGSM: The Approach for Healthcare Transformation
With OGSM, you plan and realize the necessary change – step by step.
Challenges in the Healthcare Sector
- Staff shortages
- Increasing demand for care
- Budgets under pressure
As a healthcare provider, what will you do differently than before to ensure future-proof care?
From Challenge to Plan to Tangible Change
Your organization probably has a plan – or is working on one. To clearly define when your organization is successful and what changes are needed to get there, both a long-term and short-term plan are essential.
Key focus areas include:
- Staff: How do we attract the right people, ensure a manageable workload, promote job satisfaction, and maintain quality?
- Patients: How can we prevent illness and (more intensive) treatments? How do we maintain personal attention?
- Partners: Which organizations can we collaborate with to strengthen each other’s efforts, and how?
- Services & Processes: Which innovations have the potential to make our care smarter, faster, more affordable, and more accessible?
Sharpen Your Perspective as a Healthcare Provider
To shape an effective strategy, it’s important to have clarity on:
- Your current organizational status (what’s going well, what could be improved)
Trends and developments in the healthcare field around you - What success looks like in 3 to 5 years, considering internal strengths/weaknesses and external opportunities/threats
- The changes needed in the long term (multi-year plan)
- The changes needed in the short term (annual plan)
Tip: Especially in healthcare, it’s essential to co-create the plan with your stakeholders, department heads, medical managers, project teams, etc. Give people a voice and ensure time is made available for developing the habit of change. This way, you don’t only focus on today’s demands, but also build toward sustainable healthcare.
OGSM for Healthcare Organizations
Whatever type of plan your organization is working on, OGSM makes it clear what you want to achieve, what success looks like, where to focus, and which activities will get you there. OGSM captures all of this in one clear and practical framework.
Example OGSM Plans for Healthcare
What types of plans fit OGSM?
- Multi-year strategy
- Annual plan
- Strategic plan
- Program plan
- Project plan
- Action plan
- Implementation roadmap
- …
OGSM Success Stories from the Field
Creating a plan is one thing. Making it happen is another. Reinier de Graaf Hospital uses OGSM Software to support implementation, including automated status update requests, reporting, and linking multiple plans.
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“We think that the OGSM method provides us with a good instrument to successfully shape the transition we are facing as an organization. To start with, because OGSM provides direction: where do we want to be next year, and where in five years’ time? But also because OGSM makes it clear whether we have achieved our goals in practice – and if not, where we should have invested more time and/or money. That gives me guidance as a director, but also the management team.”
I. Buurma, is manager of a healthcare unit.
“We have really gone from big visions to super concrete goals and actions and that of course takes some getting used to. In that sense, OGSM is not a ‘quick fix’ – it really does require some preliminary work. But where previously the team head mainly wrote the Annual Plan, the entire team now writes that plan. And that is also great for the team feeling.
In here role as management assistente, N. Verweij has a critical support role.
“Not everything works as expected or hoped for, and sometimes you have to add extra things because circumstances have changed. The OGSM software supports this process extremely well, because you can always keep your finger on the pulse. This means it remains a living document and does not disappear in a drawer.”
OGSM Experts Ready to Help
Support from an experienced advisor helps you reach better results, faster. The consultants at Bizaline are ready to help you develop your plan and guide execution. See our contact details at the bottom of this page.
Contact Edward van der Kolk at:
📞 +31 6 22 23 39 00
✉️ edward@bizaline.com
📅 Click here to schedule a meeting
“Thanks to OGSM in combination with OGSM Software, we have clarity, focus, and shared ownership over our long-term care ambitions.”
— Quote from a healthcare organization —
For program or project management, or interim assignments, our partner Fringe is an excellent choice.
Contact Koen Bekking at:
📞 +31 (0)6 46 39 31 91
✉️ koen@fringe.works
When research and in-depth analysis are key, our partner BeBright is the right fit.