Robert T. Yokl

President & Chief Value Strategist

 

Greetings!

New Pay for New Work!

We just held our summer session of our Certified Value Analysis 3-day Training Program which brought into the daylight that only a small number of healthcare organizations are rewarding and recognizing their value team members for the hard work that they do.

This hasn’t ever made sense to me, since hospitals, systems and IDNs should be authorizing new pay for new work that these value teams are doing.  By incentivizing your value teams you can keep them on track, on budget and keyed up to save even more money for your healthcare organization.

I’m so convinced that this is the right thing to do that we mandate that every healthcare organization that installs our LEAN Value Analysis Program also establish a rewards and recognition program to encourage their value teams to be peak performers. Or, why else would their staff squeeze into their already busy days, weeks and months all this new work. Rewarding people for extra work is not only logical but it’s a key facet of human nature!

Every client of ours who has adopted this philosophy of “new pay for new work” has been repaid for their investment by at least 100 fold. Likewise, their value team members’ productivity, creativity and doggedness has risen to a new level of superior performance.  

Reward and recognition programs aren’t just the right thing to do for your value teams, but are a prerequisite for everlasting savings and quality improvements. Without this your value teams aren’t firing on ALL eight cylinders, just meandering along on three or four cylinders!

Isn’t it time you get your value teams into high gear?

 

Your Partner In Savings Beyond Price™,

 

 

Robert T Yokl

Chief Value Strategist

Strategic Value Analysis® In Healthcare

Bobpres@strategicva.com

800-220-4274 

 

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What I’m talking about here is the way in which you selecting your VA projects, which can unearth millions of dollars of savings in your value streams.  For the best results, you should establish criteria for the selection of your VA projects. Here are five criteria I would suggest you start with: 

1.                Dollar Threshold: No VA project should be undertaken on a product, service or technology that has less than a $25,000 annual spend.  The reason: Your ROI would be very small, if at all!

2.                Projected Timeline: If your VA project will take more than 90-days to complete it might be better to break the project into smaller projects. Projects that have long timelines tend to go off track.  Keep your projects in bit size pieces!

3.                Probability of Success: If you only have a 50% probability of success in implementing a project (e.g. orthopedic implant study) then delay the project until you have an 80% success factor.

4.                Project Alignment: If your VA project is not supported by your management then I would delay it for another day. Why fight city hall – you rarely win!

5.                Solution Clarity:  If you already know the solution to a problem (e.g. defective material) then don’t initiate a VA project — just fix the problem. It will save you a lot of time and effort by doing so.

These are just a few ideas to get you on the road to selecting the best VA Projects using criteria vs. gut feel with the greatest possible ROIs.

Your Partner In Innovative Savings, 

Bob Yokl

Robert T Yokl

Chief Value Strategist

Strategic Value Analysis® In Healthcare

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