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What are they up to now? — Competitive intelligence can provide strategic insights
Summer 2012
Newsletter: Management & Tax Concepts
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 1018
Abstract: All too often, businesses seek to develop better products and services without knowing enough about their competition. To truly hone the edge they’re looking for, companies need to constantly ask one simple question: “What are they up to now?” And the best way to get answers is through competitive intelligence — the process of legally and ethically gathering data on competitors. This article lists four main principles of a competitive intelligence policy and explains how to execute it. A sidebar describes how competitive intelligence software can help.
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Debt isn’t a dirty word — Why your nonprofit might want to borrow
Summer 2012
Newsletter: Nonprofit Observer
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
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Abstract: Debt is an integral part of many for-profit companies’ strategic plans, yet it has traditionally carried a stigma in the nonprofit world. That view is changing, as more organizations borrow money for major capital purchases, new program funding — even to manage current cash flow. But not all nonprofits qualify. This article discusses strategies for getting a loan as well as some of the risks associated with debt. A sidebar identifies several loan sources.
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Private equity firms: Could they help save your hospital?
Fall 2011
Newsletter: Healthcare Management Advisor
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
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Abstract: Investment in one sector of the hospital industry has been picking up: capital infusions by private equity firms into not-for-profit hospitals and hospital systems. The common goal of these transactions is to earn above-average profits for the equity investors while maintaining the charitable missions and long-term survivability of the hospitals. But this article examines whether these are contradictory aims, and whether private equity firms can provide relief to financially stressed hospitals. A sidebar provides a list of some of the more active hospital-focused firms, along with the entities that make the investments.
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The process of partnering with a health system
Fall 2009
Newsletter: Vital Signs
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
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Abstract: Throughout the country, hospitals are looking at ways to partner with physicians in order to create comprehensive health systems that will serve the needs of their service community as well as the physicians with whom they partner. But, to meet the requirements that are necessary to perform a comprehensive review and meet all Stark requirements, health systems must perform due diligence in regard to productivity, compensation, profitability, overhead and staffing. The overwhelming nature of the requests for documentation may foster fear or resentment among some practices, but they should think of it as merely a way for the health system to be introduced to the practice and how it operates, not as an intimidating or judgmental process.