The ‘Melting’ Value Chain

Greetings from historic Gettysburg and the close of the annual OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Retreat. I wrapped the week with an executive session, Reinventing Health & Human Service Organizations For A Value-Based World: Transformational Leadership Required!, focused on the likely changes ahead for most health and human service organizations, and the leadership challenges in making that happen.

My thoughts about the competitive framework for the evolution that lies ahead has changed in recent months. Recent mergers, acquisitions, and partnership have "melted" the previously clear lines between traditional stakeholder roles. And when things melt, you never know what shape they . . .