Integrated Healthcare Strategies helps Boards and CEO's ensure continuity and performance of executive leadership. Three key products in this service line are Continuity Assessments, Continuity and Succession Plans and Leadership Transition.

In a dynamic business environment with often unpredictable new challenges at every turn, continuity planning for key executive positions is a critical component of today's corporate strategy. Continuity planning needs to be part of every Board and executive team's strategic plan to support the vision and mission that will fulfill the organization's future promise. The benefits of having a well-articulated continuity plan are clear:

• Your leadership team can rely on a process to ensure a continuous sequence of qualified people are ready to move up and take over when the current generation retires or moves on.
• Management will be able to confidently exercise good stewardship with the assurance that proper governance is not dependent upon the health or good behavior of any given individual.
• The organization will be able to properly nurture and develop its human capital, and reap the benefits of proactively cultivating this potential.

Integrated Healthcare Strategies assists clients in achieving these objectives while ensuring continued management performance throughout the continuity planning process, and counseling both the Board and CEOs during transition.

Continuity Planning is distinct from standard succession planning in that Continuity Planning focuses as much on the organization as the individual, and seeks to determine the relationship of both in meeting the critical future performance and leadership needs of hospitals and health systems.

Integrated Healthcare Strategies helps Boards design a process for reviewing the organization's leadership talent, evaluating executives' readiness to move into top positions, designing personalized leadership development plans, and developing contingency plans for external recruiting.

Integrated Healthcare Strategies' Leadership Continuity Services are also designed to help an organization face the departure of its CEO. We strive to facilitate a graceful and honorable transition that creates "win-win" scenarios for all parties. This thorough and detailed process provides thoughtful and innovative solutions to leverage the experience and institutional legacy of departing CEOs in ways that are most advantageous to the organizations they have served. We also direct the Board in developing a plan that articulates the qualities and skills they desire in the new leader.

When a CEO or other senior leader quits, retires, becomes incapacitated or is let go, Boards need to decide quickly what to do. Proactively developing and implementing continuity and transition plans can help minimize confusion and disruption of the organization's service roles and economic vitality. That is what Integrated Healthcare Strategies brings to the table.