The Clinical Method Applied
Chapter 15 Bedside Questions · 8 questions · about 8 minutes
The appendicitis workup: history, exam, differential, discriminating tests, written diagnosis, executable orders, titrated treatment, scheduled follow-up and maintenance, applied to the organization as patient.
The clinical method, operationally: whether major initiatives start with a written examination and diagnosis, roll out in stages, and are followed up so the gains hold. Answer Yes only when someone can produce the evidence today.
Answer as your executive team would, with the evidence in hand. Each question has a factual answer in a system you already own.
Are major initiatives launched with a written examination, diagnosis and plan, or with a goal and a project charter?
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On your three largest initiatives, can the team hand you the working diagnosis in writing with the alternatives considered and rejected?
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A project charter describes what will be done. It rarely states what is believed to be wrong.
The Diagnostician, Chapter 15