Healthcare
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Optimize patient communication through segmentation
Intuitively, most managers and analysts know that patient and customer segmentation is critical to drawing out insights from preferences and behaviors. However, before leaping into the process of customer segmentation, it is valuable to think about segmentation in three steps.
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The Essential Role Of Leaders In Internal Communications
Healthcare systems must arm their leaders with the story of their organization. Your narrative should always point to the organization’s goals while also bringing its people forward into the spotlight. Keeping the message and the method personal and relevant reaches employees more effectively...
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How Digital Marketing is Leading the Way to the Perfect Patient Experience
Digital marketing in healthcare is not only the wave of the future and how we engage with each other, but it is also the future of comprehensive patient care and overall satisfaction.
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Maybe It's Not Marketing's Fault
George Danner, Chief Data Scientist at Endeavor Management, was recently published in Strategic Health Care Marketing.
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Increase Your Physician Marketing Budget
Increase your physician marketing budget. With a little more intentionality and the financial resources to back it up, empowering your marketing teams to reach physicians will grow your clinical volumes and strengthen your relationships with those you need to reach most.
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Successful One-to-Many Physician Outreach
One-to-many physician outreach tactics can successfully be low-touch and high-tech and still meet physician needs. And they come with the benefit of being lower in cost and time requirements than direct one-to-one marketing.
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Helping your healthcare organization thrive through the changes
PART FOUR Hospital Systems are going through a restructuring whether they intended to or not. Patient, physician, and employee expectations as well as the impact of the global pandemic have all played a role in bringing about change. Executives are implementing quick-fix solutions that are...
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Restructuring the way you engage with physicians
Physicians are paramount to the success of a hospital, yet few resources are given to partnering well and ensuring physicians are happy within the organization.
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Common pitfalls leaders make in addressing healthcare staffing shortages
Common pitfalls we see healthcare leaders make in reaction to the changes taking place in nursing.
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Reconsidering the Healthcare Business Model
A structural change has been taking place in American Nursing for some time now. With all these changes, it seems inevitable that nursing is restructuring, and hospitals need to rethink their business models to match the trajectory. At Endeavor, we have the tools and expertise to help you through...
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Points to Consider to Ensure that your Health System Expansion Plans are Successful
You only have one chance to make a great first impression with new audiences; how can you make sure you hit it out of the park? Endeavor Management believes that there is a strategic advantage in involving marketing communication experts at the earliest stages of expansion planning.
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Keys to Align Marketing and Physician Outreach
We aligned marketing and physician relations to achieve a three percent increase in market share in one fiscal year. Here are the keys to align marketing and physician relations.
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Why Should Healthcare Concern Itself with A Digital Front Door Strategy?
The fast-changing landscape of the pandemic has taught us that people want options, and if offered multiple ways to meet their needs, they will remain loyal to your brand.
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What in the World is Market Segmentation Doing in Healthcare?
Our expectations when it comes to healthcare are evolving to match experiences in other sectors of life like retail, streaming services, and entertainment. No longer satisfied with the hospital down the street or any physician referred, patients expect multiple options, easy scheduling at the...
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What is Consumerism in Healthcare and Why Does it Matter?
As people have had more exposure to innovative brands and companies in other areas of their lives, they have begun to expect similar standards of ease, access, customer experience, and choice in the healthcare sphere
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Share of Usage Models Better Predict Growth
Share of usage better predicts growth. Growth is a common objective among virtually all healthcare systems. However, there are other ways to predict patient choice and usage more accurately and identify strategies to gain increased service usage more effectively.
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Contact Centers Where We Go From Here
Contact Centers - where do we go from here? Everyone is talking about the way we’re functioning now as our “new normal.” But is this current routine just a short-term patch while we work through the COVID-19 crisis, or will it change the way we operate in the future?
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3 Top Demands of CEOs
As we work with CEOs and Boards of Directors at many different companies, we are starting to see some changes in what Boards demand from their CEOs. Some of the things we see are pretty standard (Corporate Strategy) but some of the things are less traditional in terms of what CEOs in the past...
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Mid-level Leaders Business Transformation
How are Mid-level Leaders Part of Your Business Transformation? In this time of business transformation, engagement of Mid-level leaders by the executive team is crucial. Mid-level Leaders (managers) support the message from the C-Suite and provide the feedback loop critical to getting all on...
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Who Will Lead
What is required to lead post-crisis?
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The Power of Purpose
The power of purpose is more evident now than ever. Create a compelling purpose that gets employees eager to come to work.
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Hospital Marketers Must Guide the Journey to The Next Normal
If hospitals were a football team, the Chief Marketing Officer would be the Offensive Coordinator. In that role, he/she needs to create a playbook that provides action plans that are within the rules of the game, and considers their team’s strengths and the competitive environment in which...
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Case Study: Agile Marketing Communications
Unlike most highly visible touchpoints that take weeks to plan, produce, and deploy, this commercial needed to be created and implemented within a week. To make this happen, Endeavor facilitated an agile, teamwork-centered approach in collaboration with Northstar's marketing leadership.
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The Power of Consumer Insight During a Time of Crisis
As we are all learning to navigate this new normal, many leaders and marketers are faced with the uncertainty of what customers and want and need – there’s a lot of power in consumer insights during a crisis. The good news is that consumers are continuing to engage in online research, and...
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Crisis Communications Tips for Leaders
During crisis communications, many businesses are unsure how to best communicate with customers, and what they should say. Here are our top recommendations for how to successfully engage your customers during this time of uncertainty.
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Dispersed Work Teams? How's it Working Out?
Now that several weeks have passed, it would be interesting to hear what good practices have emerged. From my discussions with colleagues and experience working virtually for the last 5 years after 35 years of corporate office life, here are a few efficient ways of working as a virtual team...
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Prepare Now to Succeed in the Next Normal
So, we recommend that you and your colleagues take a few minutes each day to reflect on what you are observing and learning – about how you do what do and how your audiences are doing what they are doing. Capture these thoughts fully and carefully – easily done with today’s technology,...
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What's Up With You? It May Be Grief
While originally born from work on the death of a loved one, what we have learned is this same cycle of emotions applies for any loss or change. Whether death, the loss of a job, the furloughing of colleagues, or the loss of access to a fitness facility, all bring about similar waves of emotion.
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So Many People to Keep Informed, So Little Time
When it comes to organizing communications quickly across a number of groups, there's a useful process called stakeholder analysis. Stakeholder analysis is used to identify all audiences (usually focused on internal or external stakeholders, not necessarily customers), your need for their...
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Consumerism in Healthcare: Strategies for Attracting Today's Empowered Consumer
Meeting the needs of empowered consumers demands authentically engaging with customers in new ways.
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Consumerism in Healthcare: Why VOC is at the Core [And How to Listen Better]
The experience provided represents some of the best opportunities to create patient loyalty and motivate patients to share positive stories with others.
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Consumerism in Healthcare: The Impact on Physician Relationship Management
Consumerism demands that physician relationship management encompass a variety of activities and integrate stakeholders that are impactful to referring physicians.
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Consumerism in Healthcare: The Trends that Can't be Ignored
To maintain a competitive advantage, healthcare leaders must be on the front lines of making changes necessitated by current consumerism in healthcare trends.
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Which Part of Your Data Analytics Dollar is Wasted?
You can improve the effectiveness of your data analytics investments. Here’s a good way to start. “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.” You’ve probably heard that saying by department-store magnate John Wanamaker...
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Lifetime Patient Value
Lifetime Patient Value (LPV) – which measures the value that patients can bring to healthcare organizations, such as hospital and cancer treatment systems, that provide specialty and multi-specialty diagnostic and treatment services and products. Unlike the more transaction-oriented industries...
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The Role of Consumerism in Healthcare [trends leaders should know about]
The role of consumerism in healthcare is making an impact with every interaction, in every phase of the journey.
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Patient Volume Modeling
Our approach to patient volume modeling provides insight for strategic decision making for marketing and operations. Using this tool, clients are able to understand their individual and comparative performance to prescribe the marketing and able to identify the operations levers that will most...
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Physician Schedule Optimization
How can you meet organizational revenue needs while addressing physician preferences? In this presentation, we review our approach to creating an physician schedule optimization model that assembles and predicts the impact of schedule changes on patient revenue against a series of constraints and...
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Optimizing Clinical Care Ecosystems
Providing the right care, at the right place, at the right time requires meeting needs throughout the continuum of the experience for patients, referring physicians and donors. In response to this growing challenge, we have created an approach to help clients design the optimal clinical care...
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When Next-Gen Healthcare Marketing Dashboards Become Action Plans
Marketing360 - healthcare marketing dashboard that relates marketing results to experience stages, KPIs, service lines and market segments.
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Healthcare MarCom Budget Benchmarks
How much do my peers spend? How do they spend it? A Second Chance to Create And Use Healthcare MarCom Budget Benchmarks A little more than two decades ago, I was a new healthcare marketer at my first conference of hospital chief financial officers. My hope was to learn as much as I could about...
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Effective Physician Relationship Management – The Holistic View
It’s no surprise that today’s hospitals and healthcare systems are increasingly focused on building and sustaining relationships with referring physicians. All are striving to deploy effective physician relationship management programs. The reason is simple: Referring physicians continue to...
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Engaging Physician Alumni for Increased Referrals, Reputation and Resources
Hospital marketers and outreach teams face continual pressure for engaging key stakeholders such as patients, physicians, and donors. While there are a range of audiences important for affecting growth and, one group is often overlooked – engaging physician alumni – graduates, fellows and...
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Lean Six Sigma: Where does it fit within Operational Excellence?
LSS vs OE: Same Tools, Different Names? There seems to be a lot of noise and general misconceptions about Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and Operational Excellence (OE). Are they different terms for the same thing? Are they just different approaches to the same end goal? If they are different, which one is...
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Evolve the Role of Physician Relationship Management in Today’s Healthcare Environment
In today’s healthcare environment, many hospitals and healthcare systems have embraced the need and opportunity to establish physician relationship management programs, most commonly referred to as outreach programs. Over the years these programs have evolved across several key models. The most...
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Using KPIs for Tracking and Monitoring Physician Relationship Management
As healthcare organizations strive to build meaningful relationships with referring physicians and serve as a trusted partner when a referral need arises, it is essential to have a clear understanding of how effectively their needs are being met. That's where Physician Relationship KPIs are...
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The Struggle to Demonstrate Marketing ROI
For any investment an organization makes, leaders want to see a return. Yet even as marketing and technology evolve and become more robust and sophisticated, many marketing leaders still struggle to demonstrate marketing ROI. Many marketing professionals argue that it is difficult if not...
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Meditation, Mindfulness, Meetings and Marketing Strategy
Meditation, Meetings and Marketing Strategy I had the pleasure of attending Gopi Kallayil’s keynote at the Forum for Healthcare Strategy before our own presentation with Cleveland Clinic . He highlighted some interesting observations regarding our new organ – the mobile device. ...
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OK for Healthcare Marketers to Say "No"
It's OK for Marketers to Say No Here's How When did we start defining strategy based on the loudest voices? For many marketers, this has been happening since the first marketing dollars were fought for – and has continued since. Unfortunately, addressing the highest stated need has the...
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Keys to Brand Architecture
Getting Simplified with Brand Architecture Maintaining a portfolio of brands is one of the toughest things for a marketing group – managing diverse styles, colors that don’t match, and graphics that don’t even make sense internally. If you were a family and drove up to the curb, there’d...