An Owner's Perspective: Getting Heads in Beds Faster, With Less Cost

Presented on Wednesday, March 26, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

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Effective scope definition is key to produce a realistic total project cost assessment and schedule. These two components should align with the organization’s vision and major objectives, and contribute to on-budget, on-time project delivery.

The challenge is, how do you control and streamline scope definition and scope management to help you get ‘heads’ in beds as quickly as possible while dealing with challenges like:

1. Planning beyond the scope of the immediate project, and understanding future buildouts so these factors are taken into account right from the beginning;

2. Addressing the changing medical technology landscape and its effects on facility planning and scope definition

3. Incorporating processes to facilitate schedule definition with input from the right stakeholders

4. Dealing with poor communications and collaboration between key project stakeholders

Key Takeaways

This session will tackle project Scope Definition from the executive’s perspective, based on the "Speed to Market" process. Participants will learn practical guidelines to enable efficient processes during the planning and launch phases. 

• Clearly understand the relationship between total project cost and schedule, and why the harder you drive down the price with architects and contractors, the longer the project
• Learn the 7 key factors to consider during scope definition which help you remain focused on furthering the mission of the organization
• Understand how to EFFICIENTLY enable processes that simplify and streamline scope definition
• Learn how to effectively collaborate with architects and contractors to avoid common pitfalls, e.g., internal bureaucracy/process, moving targets, inefficient workflow processes
• Learn ways to derive an accurate picture of the total project costs and schedule, that correlates into a financially sound ROI analysis, and a firm occupancy date from which anticipated revenue increases can be projected. 

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