Promoting the strategic agenda
Susan Boren, Jack Schlosser
October 2005
Governance best practices indicate that boards should devote 60% to 70% of meeting time to strategy and policy issues. Yet, according to The Governance Institute’s 2005 biennial survey of hospitals and healthcare systems, the majority of healthcare boards are not following a strategic board agenda. In 2003, boards spent only 32% of their meeting time discussing strategy and setting policy, down from 38% in 2002.
In the article, “Promoting the strategic agenda”, Susan Boren and Jack Schlosser, outline six steps that every healthcare board can to take to move towards a more strategic board agenda — from auditing current board practices to creating free time. This article was featured in The Governance Institute’s 2005 survey of governance practices in the healthcare industry, of which Spencer Stuart is a sponsor.
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