Greening Operations Series: You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure:
Developing a Qualitative and Quantitative Baseline for Sustainability
October 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM Eastern
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This session will detail how the use of qualitative and quantitative baselining tools can contribute to a clear understanding of where an organization is starting from on the sustainability spectrum and how it informs strategic goal development. The session will also highlight data collected from PGH award winners and how the benchmarks likewise drive goal-setting across the PGH membership. Practice Greenhealth, in collaboration with Bon Secours Health System Inc., will demonstrate how the development of a qualitative baseline and the overlay of a quantitative baseline can inform strategic goal development for an organization with limited resources – both financial and human. A qualitative baseline provides a snapshot of what programs are already in place – to celebrate and build momentum. It also demonstrates where there may not be even basic familiarity with key programs or concepts. The overlay of a quantitative baseline allows the organization to use data to develop benchmarks, assess the true degree of progress and identify inefficiencies, assisting the organization to accurately perform a sustainability gap analysis and zero in on areas of opportunity. The organization can then choose how to allocate limited human and financial resources in pursuit of strategic and data-driven goals for the year ahead and have a mechanism for accurately measuring progress. PGH will also highlight data from its Award Benchmarking Report and define how healthcare organizations can also use this data to inform goal development.