Strategy

All managers understand the importance of value, but our thinking about what value is and how value can be created differs across strategies, organizations and sectors. Partnerships between healthcare organizations and for-profit firms can provide innovative ways to overcome current constraints.

Quebec’s 8,300 family doctors have voted on a government offer to pay them more money in exchange for taking on more patients. And the results could mark a turning point in the province’s decade-long efforts to deal with a chronic medical manpower shortage that has left more than two million Quebecers without a family physician.