The world’s leading suite of web-based
strategic planning software solutions.

A full suite of strategic planning software tools that helps you develop, implement, and monitor your strategic plan, balanced scorecard, key performance indicators, and more. With amazing functionality, incredible flexibility, and a complete resource library, you will wonder how you ever made it through your annual planning cycle without strategicplanningMD.

It’s the only strategic planning resource you will ever need.

A best-of-breed strategic planning application
built on the profession’s leading methodology.

StrategyPlanner is based on the best-practice Six-Stage Design for Strategic Planning, developed by Harvard business school professors Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton. It guides you flawlessly through development and planning, ensures organizational alignment and operational integration, and ensures timely execution and follow through.

Bulletproof your strategic plan development and execution.

An advanced mapping and reporting solution
that is revolutionizing decision support analytics.

GeoPlanner is a single solution that harnesses the combined power of geomapping and advanced analytical reporting. For the first time ever, you can filter through transaction-level patient data using any number of variables, plot the results onto a map for easy analysis, and convert the output to advanced reports – all in the time it takes to read this paragraph.

Convert millions of lines of data into business intelligence.

A robust capacity forecasting solution that
allows you to manage future growth.

CapacityPlanner enables you to forecast the impact of volume and growth trends on your ability to create effective capacity. The application applies monthly seasonality adjustments, while allowing you to model an unlimited number of scenarios by changing assumptions related to bed license composition, occupancy rate thresholds, and average length of stay.

Identify capacity constraints long before they are crippling.

A true online benchmarking application that identifies areas of greatest opportunity and financial return.

PerformancePlanner is a different kind of benchmarking solution. It allows you to create unlimited benchmark groups based on hospital type, bed size, geographic region, and percentile target, and then compares your organization’s performance against the benchmarks – all while calculating the financial opportunity of improved performance.

It’s benchmarking the way benchmarking was meant to be.

A Baldrige-compliant quality management solution that guides your organization every step of the way.

QualityManager is a one-of-a-kind application than manages performance improvement projects through the entire quality management lifecycle – from project submission and approval, to project methodology and deliverables, to project reporting and tracking, to closure and archiving. Boost performance and manage organizational resources like never before.

Elevate quality improvement and operational performance.

Welcome to strategicplanningMD.

Introducing your virtual strategic planning and quality improvement consultant. All specifically customized for the needs of healthcare. Nowhere will you find this many strategic planning and quality management tools at your disposal. From assessments and benchmarking to surveys and forecasting, you have them all right here, all integrated into your strategic plan and quality management program.

Everything You Need (click on any item for more information)

Robust Pre-Planning Tools
A full complement of pre-planning tools allows you to electronically create the most powerful SWOT analysis ever. We begin with an assessment of mission, values, and vision, continue on with our proprietary key stakeholder analysis, capabilities gap assessment, and strategic themes prioritization, and conclude with a comprehensive PESTEL analysis of the external environment – all which feed directly into and automatically build your SWOT analysis. We conclude by converting your SWOT into a Strategic Change Agenda, which serves as a comprehensive roadmap for your organization.
Dynamic Strategic Plan
With six levels of planning – Strategic Themes, Goals, Sub-Goals, Objectives, Strategies, and Tactics – and the ability to turn levels on and off to suit the needs of your organization, you have access to the most flexible strategic planning application ever. Cascade plan elements to multiple facilities or managers, or easily carry them forward from year to year. Easily see how specific plan elements link your organization together, as well as the roles and responsibilties of everyone involved in the planning process.
Interactive Dashboards
With unlimited, easy-to-use dashboards, you now have the ability to keep everyone focused on what is truly important. With the ability to quickly show trends over time and easily display historical dashboard comparisons, you can conduct on-the-fly analysis of your strategic planning successes and failures. The data in your site automatically feeds your dashboards, ensuring that your team has access to the most current information available. Create dashboards for your strategic plan, balanced scorecard, key performance indicators, as well as departments and managers.
Flexible Mapping and Reporting
Never has data analysis been this easy and this powerful. Filter through your address-level patient data in seconds, plot the results on a map to display the exact home locations of your patient population, quickly add your medical staff and competing organizations to the map, overlay census information, and visually see the results build – all in the time that it takes to read this sentence. Then, convert your mapped data into strategic business intelligence with a single click of the mouse.
Powerful Capacity Forecasting
For the first time, you now have access to a powerful bed capacity forecasting application that will quickly and easily alert you to capacity contraints. We load your patient-level data into the application, and the built-in artificial intelligence does the rest, analyzing your trend line, adjusting for monthly seasonality, before providing you with a forecasted month that you are most likely to encounter diversion issues. Adjust your bed complement, average length of stay, and occupancy rate thresholds to create unlimited forecasting scenarios.
Customized Benchmarking
Tired of faking your way through benchmarking by comparing your organization to a self-selected peer group of 15-20 hospitals? Now there is an alternative, and it is a true benchmarking solution. Create unlimited benchmark groups based on hospital type, hospital size, geographic region, and percentile rank, and then see how you compare. Our application automatically calculates the financial opportunity in various performance areas between your organization and the benchmark groups created.
Baldrige-Compliant Quality System
We’ve solved the issue of creating and managing a Baldrige-compliant quality management system, which has plagued far too many organizations. Easily submit and approve improvement projects, select a project methodology, manage human and project resources, track progress, mandate project deliverables, automate project reviews, monitor results, and archive closed projects for easy access and review – even years later. Never has quality management been this complete – and this easy.
Built-In Accountability
Planning without action is the nemesis of many organizations – and it is our corporate mission to make sure this never happens. To that end, we have built into our applications the most action-oriented accountability tools to be found anywhere. With automatic email alerts to primary assignees, escalation alerts to secondary individuals, and automated and customizable reports, you can rest assured that plans and projects will be implemented. Creating a culture of accountability has never been so automatic.
Unlimited Users
We don’t believe in basing the number of users who can access our applications on the amount of dollars you can afford to spend. It is for this reason that our licenses provide you with an unlimited number of seats. Whether you provide access to six people or six thousand people makes no difference to us. The power in our applications increases with the number of people in your organization who have access to them – so add as many users as needed. And then watch as dramatic results take place.

Security Guaranteed

We are HIPAA compliant and HIPAA secure, deploying the strongest available Web security to protect your strategic plan and quality management data. With encryption, authenticated communications, and redundancy built in, you never have to worry about your organization’s most-sensitive information.