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Remembering Mike

December 21, 1954-
August 9, 2012

 

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Four Themes to Successfully Navigating the Supreme Court Decision

The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act confirms the direction of healthcare reform that had already begun a few years ago.  Many payers and providers, responding to the slowly emerging regulatory architecture of the law, have embarked on large scale transformational initiatives which will fundamentally change their business models forever.

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New Article

Payers and Providers: The Pressure On Payers Is Relentless

No matter the outcome of the Affordable Care Act, the long-term picture for payers remains uncertain. Even if all the ACA provisions are enforced by the Supreme Court, there are still many issues to sort out. If some of the provisions are struck down, then other issues will be encountered. In an unpredictable business environment, Blue Cross Blue Shield Montana decided to give itself a physical and make process improvements to control what we could control.

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Events

Join Us at Our Upcoming Appearances.

Guidon regularly attends and speaks at industry events, conference, seminars and more.  Check back often to see where we’ll be next, and join us at one of our upcoming events.

Past Events:

2012

  • July 23, 2012 - Triple Threat Golf Outing
    Where: Aurora Country Club - Aurora, IL
    Sponsored by: Guidon Performance Solutions
    Guidon was the Title Event Sponsor helping to provide new resources and opportunities for under-resourced youth.  Click here to visit the event web page.

  • February 29, 2012 – 2012 2nd Annual High Performance Virtual Summit "Leaders Creating Real Change"

    2012 2nd Annual High Performance Virtual Summit

    When: February 29, 2012
    Where: Virtual/Online
    Presented and Sponsored by: Guidon Performance Solutions
    Featured speakers from the following companies included: Gundersen Lutheran Health System, Stand Up To Cancer, McKinley Leadership, Océ, BioMérieux and other healthcare industry leaders with proven case studies

    The world is moving faster than ever with new technology and regional cross-business dependencies. Change frequently requires transformation, and transformation generally requires multiple organizations working together to achieve an improved state – born out of market opportunities or survival.

    With an aging population, healthcare delivery demands, new technologies, and payment reform, the US Healthcare industry is particularly in need of Transformational Leadership and models of collaboration. This year's summit on “Creating Real Change” will give you the opportunity to learn from leaders in healthcare and industries who will share their experiences and perspective on improvement and transformation with an emphasis on what really works.
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2011

  • June 29, 2011 – Webinar: "Enterprise Risk Management: Culture, Vision, Performance"
     Presented by: Dave Potterton, Vice President and Michael Versace, Research Director from IDC Financial Insights and Larry Mead, Vice President and Managing Director of Financial Services and Insurance from Guidon

    In this webinar presentation, IDC Financial Insights and Guidon Performance Solutions join to discuss principles and the roadmap for building mature and effective Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) that leads to competitive advantages.
     
    Participants will gain perspective on:

    • Setting a shared vision for risk management
    • Linking Enterprise Risk Management to the culture
    • Ensuring performance - efficiency and effectiveness
    • Enabling the risk management process with technology

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  • March 29, 2011 – Lean Healthcare Summit 2011 – Accelerating Lean and Process Improvement in Healthcare: "Minimizing the Impact of Aging Baby Boomers on your Organization"
     Presented By Ron Wince, President and CEO of Guidon
    Ron discusses and addresses one of the biggest challenges in healthcare today – how to enable your health system to adequately cope and deliver to the baby boomer generation.
    • Understand the impact of aging boomers on America's healthcare system, both as patients and employees
    • How to best leverage and focus your process efficiency programs  to help minimize the impact of aging boomers
    • Augment your understanding of how to manage health programs, such as Medicare, effectively to improve patient care without increasing costs

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  • March 15, 2011 – FacilityCare/Briefings Audio Conference: "The Strain and Drain of Baby Boomers’ Demand for Healthcare"
    Presented By Ron Wince, President and CEO of Guidon
    The baby boomers are retiring—which means they’re ready for Medicare and will need more healthcare services as they age. But are hospitals ready for them? Nearly 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 each day. What kind of strain will their needs put on America’s already struggling healthcare system? What should healthcare facilities be doing now to minimize the impact of the baby boomers, as their demand for services drains hospital resources? At the same time, baby boomers retiring from the healthcare profession are creating a “brain drain” too. Knowledge and staffing resources are going down as our retirees’ needs are going up. And so the deficit widens between the knowledge and resources that we need to answer the growing demand for healthcare—and the actual resources we have at our disposal to answer that need.

    Healthcare expert Ron Wince, CEO and President of Guidon Performance Solutions, addresses these pressing issues in a timely and revealing look at what the retiring wave of baby boomers means to the future of healthcare. What can hospitals and healthcare facilities do to keep up with demand? Will America be able to keep its competitive edge—while still increasing the quality and availability of care for all Americans? What does this influx of consumers mean for the future of health programs, such as Medicare?
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  • March 1, 2010 – ASQ 2011 Lean and Six Sigma Conference (Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs – Phoenix, Arizona) – Creating a High Performance Culture
    Presented by Ron Wince, President and CEO of Guidon
    A successful business transformation is much more than waste elimination, variation reduction, and cost improvement; it requires a fundamental change in a company’s culture, together with the momentum to sustain it. Often this is a significant undertaking in matrixed organizations. Learn how to create a more highly engaged, aligned and high-performing culture that links strategy with real-world, customer-focused execution.

    Learn a new approach to leveraging the most effective tools for cultural change in combination with performance management and talent development. The result is a framework for changing the hearts and minds of leadership who in turn engage the rest of the organization in the transformation process.

    Learning Outcomes:

    • Cultural Transformation – changing the daily behaviors of the organization to embody the values of the company.

    • Performance Management – measuring the outcomes of operations transformation-top-line and bottom-line but also measuring the change in employee engagement.

    • Leadership Talent Development – developing the skills and talents of leaders at every level to champion transformation, lead continuous improvement, while delivering on near-term or strategic expectations.
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2010

  • September 23, 2010 – 2010 Business Beyond Boundaries Operational Excellence Virtual Conference

    Business Beyond Boundaries

    Presented and Sponsored by Guidon Performance Solutions
    Speakers Included: Newt Gingrich, Michael Wright, Ron Wince and other industry leaders with proven case studies
    To achieve operational excellence, companies must find a new way of thinking beyond any pre-existing boundaries. Business Beyond Boundaries will give you the opportunity to learn from game-changing leaders who will share new methodologies and perspectives for your organization to achieve operational excellence – and ways to immediately apply them to your business.
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  • August 5, 2010 – Forbes/Guidon Webinar – Whitewater Management: The Key to Navigating the 'New Business Normal'
    Presented by Ron Wince, President and CEO of Guidon and Michael Wright, Co-author The New Business Normal
    We are looking out on a dramatically altered business world—with little resemblance to life a few short months ago. In this more complex environment, the ability to anticipate and deal with frequent change, even turmoil, determines survival. Some business leaders have yet to grasp this reality; others are rightly daunted by the challenge.
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  • May 19, 2010 – Webinar: "The Reform After the Reform" Webinar Series – Session 1: How Payers Will Be Impacted by the New Healthcare Reform Law and What to Do Now
    Presented By Ron Wince, President and CEO of Guidon and David Merritt, Vice President and National Policy Director at the Center for Health Transformation and the Gingrich Group
    In the post-reform world of healthcare, payers will be among the most heavily impacted by the new legislation.  From new regulations and compliance issues to dealing with potential caps on premiums, payers may already be behind the curve on managing the impact to their business. In this webinar you will learn more about the complexities of the new legislation and what payers must do now to prepare for the coming change.
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  • March 17, 2010 – Conference: 2010 International Conference on Lean & Six Sigma
    Master Your Lean & Six Sigma For Practitioners, By Practitioners (Rosen Plaza Hotel – Orlando, Florida)
    Presented by Ron Wince, President and CEO of Guidon
    Guidon's President and CEO presented a session, "The Shifting Role of Lean Six Sigma in the Age of Turbulence."
    Businesses are charged with competing in an unpredictable world. One lesson learned from the recent downturn is that no matter what the economic climate is, the key to survival is agility. This requires a shift back to the basics and a focus on creating high performance business processes. In this session, you will learn how to use Lean and Six Sigma to create agile business processes and to position your business to survive today and thrive tomorrow.
    Click here to download PDF of presentation

2009

  • December 14, 2009 – Webinar: Lean Information Technology
    Presented by Ron Wince, President and CEO of Guidon Performance Solutions
    More and more companies are closely examining IT operations, and IT leaders are constantly under pressure to provide more service with less. When companies are able to align IT costs to business objectives, it significantly increases the strategic value of the company's IT investments. Learn how to get started with Lean Six Sigma in IT and how to effectively assess your current IT operations.
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  • December 10, 2009 – Webinar: Using Lean Six Sigma for Fast Track SG&A Reductions
    Presented by Ron Wince, President and CEO of Guidon Performance Solutions
    For most companies, Selling, General & Administrative (SG&A) costs represent 12-20% of total revenue. With these costs hitting the bottom line directly, many companies are starting to take a closer look at how to reduce SG&A. Using Lean Six Sigma tools help companies streamline, accelerate and execute significant and sustainable SG&A cost reduction.
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  • October 15, 2009 – Webinar: Lean Lab Design
    Presented by Larry Mead, Vice-President of Guidon Performance Solutions
    Larry Mead joined bioMérieux and talked about the benefits of merging two efficiency concepts, Lean and Six Sigma, to benefit the microbiology lab.
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  • September 30, 2009 – Webinar: Leveraging Lean Thinking in Credit Unions
    Presented by Randy M. Smith, President and CEO of Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union and Larry Mead, Vice-President of Guidon
    Click here to download PDF of presentation
  • September 29, 2009 – Conference: Effective Government (Salem, Oregon)
    Presented by Ron Wince, President and CEO of Guidon
    Guidon's President and CEO presented a session, "Developing a Lean, Mean Organization." State and local governments are continually being pressured to cut costs, do more with less and be more customer-focused. They learned how to apply Lean Six Sigma methods to make your their agency, department and programs run better, faster and cheaper.
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  • June 9-11, 2009 – Conference: Lean Government Exchange (Des Moines, Iowa)
    Presented by Brent Jameson, Managing Director of Technology and Strategic Alliances of Guidon
    A dynamic, best process improvement conference focused on implementing Lean in government.
    Click here to download PDF of presentation

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