INSIDE CHIME: Strategic Planning: Charting CHIME’s Future
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10.8.15 by Marc Probst, CHIME Board of Trustees Chair-elect; Chief Information Officer, Intermountain Healthcare |
The CHIME Board of Trustees has been engaged in a detailed strategic planning exercise, assessing the organization, its operations and its priorities. The process will help shape CHIME’s direction for the future and ensure that we continue to meet your needs.
You’ve heard it before, but it bears repeating: Everything CHIME does is for us, the members. From such educational programs as the Fall CIO Forum to professional development opportunities like the Boot Camp, CHIME strives to add value to our membership.
To ensure that CHIME is hitting the mark, the Board of Trustees reviews the organization’s strategic plan on an annual basis. We measure activities against an organizational scorecard. I’m happy to report that for 2015 CHIME is meeting or exceeding nearly all of its goals.
For the past two years, the board has taken an even deeper dive into assessing the organization, its operations and priorities. We held focused sessions at our recent board retreats to think strategically about where CHIME should be headed in the future. It’s been an exciting exercise to engage with members over CHIME’s strategic plan and learn how the organization can better serve the membership.
As you know, CHIME has ventured into some new territory with CHIME Cooperative Member Services and efforts to expand to an international membership. Be assured that in both cases, the board is asking the right question: How does this add value to the membership? CHIME Cooperative Member Services brings value by helping establish strong business partnerships between CIOs and CHIME Foundation Firms.
Going international? There are a couple of things to consider. For starters, healthcare and healthcare IT are global. Our colleagues around the world are facing many of the same challenges and have much to share with us here in the U.S. We also know that many are hungry for the type of educational programing and leadership development that CHIME can offer.
As we broaden CHIME activities, it’s important that we don’t dilute the CHIME brand. The board’s strategic planning process helps safeguard against that. We will continually monitor activities and ensure that we are doing what’s best for the core CHIME membership. If things don’t make sense, we’ll stop doing them. We want to hear from you and ways together we can improve CHIME.
Lastly, the board underwent a strategic visioning exercise this year. The process will help shape CHIME’s direction for the future and ensure that we continue to meet your needs. At next week’s Fall CIO Forum, we’ll share some more exciting news around CHIME’s vision statement. Don’t worry, if you can’t make CHIME15, we’ll have a recap in a future issue of Inside CHIME. Hope to see you next week!