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Loyalty is Dead—Even in Healthcare

Retail healthcare is advancing in sophistication, and this is a good thing. Healthcare providers continue to reach out more into the community with outpatient services, going to the people—this… more →

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Loyalty is Dead---Even in Healthcare

Lee wrote 3 weeks ago: Retail healthcare is advancing in sophistication, and this is a good thing. Healthcare providers con … more →

Tags: Retail Healthcare, Healthcare and Business, LinkedIn, Becker's Hospital Review, Retail Healthcare, loyalty, Legacy Relationship, Relationships, Planning, Design, & Construction

Adjusting Expectations Redux

Lee wrote 5 months ago: Eleven months ago I wrote about how communication between two people can be a challenge because of a … more →

Tags: LinkedIn, CAH, healthcare design, rfp process, expectations, time value, schadenfreude, Job

Why Hospitals Don't Buy

Lee wrote 6 months ago: A week or so ago I blogged about the “noise” in the healthcare market, and how that nois … more →

Tags: LinkedIn, Value, emotional buying, rational buying, noise, NEED, Motive, risk-reward

A/E/C Fees Not Worth a War

Lee wrote 7 months ago: In his hilarious stand-up, “For What It’s Worth”, comedian Dave Chappelle set up a humorous routine … more →

Tags: Project Cost, Design Build, LinkedIn, efficiency, Google, rfp, Simulation, f^tes, rfp process

Healthcare Design Not for Commodity Buyers

Lee wrote 8 months ago: The other day I was ruminating on why construction projects are so difficult to successfully execute … more →

Tags: LinkedIn, integrated design-build, CM at Risk, Private Label, Gambling, BlackJack, Basic Strategy, commodity buyer, Generic

Toolbox for a Rainy Day

Lee wrote 9 months ago: ‘Tis the season for daily rain in Florida. I spoke to a Director of Facilities yesterday and h … more →

Tags: LinkedIn, Stephen Covey, 7 habits of highly effective people, Facilities, Toolbox, Time Management

RFP Process: Courtesy, Please

Lee wrote 10 months ago: Last week, I was able to meet with a hospital to get a debrief, which is a short meeting to gain ins … more →

Tags: LinkedIn, Value, rfp, Schedule, rfp process, Debrief, Courtesy

Profit-versus-Mission Conflict

Lee wrote 11 months ago: Last summer, I was brainstorming a way to get an independent community hospital some badly needed pa … more →

Tags: Healthcare and Business, LinkedIn, Cost Control, CON . . ., for-profit healthcare, non-profit healthcare, mission, speed to market, best value

When It's Your Move

Lee wrote 11 months ago: In chess, white moves first. This can set the tone for white to be on the offensive, and black the d … more →

Tags: LinkedIn, Haskell, Soccer, Real Estate, Chess, Offense, Defense, healthcare strategy

Store-Brands of Project Delivery

Lee wrote 1 year ago: These soups have soft, almost mushy noodles.  Food Lion’s flavors are a little more intense, t … more →

Tags: Design Build, DB, LinkedIn, DBB, design-bid-build, CM, CM at Risk, Mortenson Construction, Consumer Reports

RFP Process: Flawed or Fixed?

Lee wrote 1 year ago: In the past, I examined the flawed nature of the Request For Proposals (RFP) process.  I question th … more →

Tags: LinkedIn, rfp, certificate of need, CON . . ., Request for Proposal, rfp process

Count On (and Pick) a Cinderella

Lee wrote 1 year ago: Three days ago was Selection Sunday, and today college basketball fans are deep into their research … more →

Tags: LinkedIn, status quo, Cinderella, NCAA Basketball, NCAA Tournament, Chalk, Elite Eight, Final Four, contingency planning

An Institution at Your Institution

Lee wrote 1 year ago: A couple weeks ago I met with a Vice President of Operations at a medical center in a town of about … more →

Tags: LinkedIn, Company Culture, mergers and aquisitions, Established Relationships, loyalty, Legacy Relationship, Group Think, industry consolidation, Leadership Change

Portrait of an Integrated Team

Lee wrote 1 year ago: Eight weeks ago I had the good fortune of attending a presentation on Accountable Care Organizations … more →

Tags: LinkedIn, integrated design-build, accountable care organization, aços, The Advisory Board, integrated team

Hospitals: Work Sample Your HC Team

Lee wrote 1 year ago: For sure, healthcare project partner selection is an emotional decision. Yet other industries strugg … more →

Tags: Design Build, LinkedIn, Google, design-bid-build, emotional buying, work sampling, short-list interview

Short List Interviews Anything But Predictable

Lee wrote 1 year ago: College bowl season is in full swing again. For college football fans, bowl season offers a coda to … more →

Tags: LinkedIn, design-bid-build, College Football, bowl season, Gambit, trick play, twelve angry men

RFP Process By the Numbers — 2 comments

Lee wrote 1 year ago: Some hospitals and systems utilize a formal selection process to determine which architect and contr … more →

Tags: Design Build, DB, LinkedIn, DBB, design-bid-build, rfp, negotiated bid, RFQ, criteria architect

Another Gut Check at Decision Time

Lee wrote 1 year ago: On Saturday, Jonah Lehrer penned a piece in the Wall Street Journal about decision making in the mod … more →

Tags: LinkedIn, Team Selection, Wall Street Journal, Trust your Gut, emotional buying, rfp process, gut decision, Decision Making, Jonah Lehrer

Your Design-Builder is an Emotional Decision

Lee wrote 1 year ago: In the September issue of Fast Company is an article on “neuromarketing”, or the study of how the br … more →

Tags: Fast Company, LinkedIn, Risk, Collaboration, Company Culture, Trust, neuromarketing, Inception, Marketing


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