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5k+
Times our members accessed our benchmark generators in 2024
68
Net Promoter Score for our 2024 strategy summit
Our recent research
- Value-based care
- Provider access
- Medical group referral strategy
- Patient flow
- Volume forecasts
Presentations and workshops
Whether you're looking for topical presentations or dedicated focus on a challenge or initiative, our expert support gives you access to healthcare experts in different ways to match your time and needs. Learn more.
Keep a pulse on evolving market dynamics & adapt your strategy
State of the healthcare industry | Presentation
Discuss the market forces leaders should watch and the strategic bets to navigate the industry’s future structure.Playbook for reducing LOS: Lessons from your provider peers | Presentation
You keep hearing that patients are sicker, staffing levels are insufficient, and post-acute closures are driving up length of stay. But how much of this is true? And what kind of return could you unlock if you addressed these factors? Chasing solutions to those problems will be costly and you’ll be up against established market players. Instead, join us as we reveal our playbook for reducing length of stay and optimizing patient flow — tactics we know will have an immediate impact and be worth the investment.Strategic pivots for service line modernization | Presentation
Are your service lines prepared to evolve along with the market? This session will explore emerging ideas for service line management, growth strategy, and cross-service line collaboration.
Elevate your leadership capabilities
- Mind the gap: Building enterprise leadership capacity to thrive in complexity | Presentation
Explore why traditional leadership practices are no longer enough in today's volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous operating environment. You'll learn about the leadership shifts required to increase enterprise leadership capacity based on our 20 years of working with over 3,000 leaders across the healthcare industry.
Improve your operations with digital technology
- Navigating AI in healthcare | Presentation
Equip your leaders with an understanding of artificial intelligence (AI), the potential benefits these technologies offer, the unique challenges AI presents in healthcare, and how organizations, leaders, and teams should respond to AI today.
Events and webinars
2025 summit series
Reimagine healthcare: 3 transformation imperatives
The healthcare industry is facing a transformative moment. As leaders, it’s up to you to shape how your organizations approach investment and partnership decisions, care delivery, and technology. Being intentional about these will ensure a viable, efficient, and patient-centered healthcare ecosystem.
For this summit series, Advisory Board will bring together executive teams from across the industry in four exciting destinations. You will be equipped with pertinent insights and action steps to take back home.
Topics include:
- Adapt to new market dynamics
- Build tomorrow’s care model today
- Embrace digital competencies
Dates and locations
- October 7-8 | Chicago, IL
- November 18-19 | Nashville, TN
- December 9-10 | Virtual
2025 roundtables
- How to deliver the next era of VBC | October 15-16 | Washington, D.C.
2025 webinars
Join one of our 70+ annual webinars to learn about the latest healthcare industry trends and topics.
- How strategic planners are approaching 2025, according to our survey
- The 10 major trends impacting health systems in 2025
- How will health systems grow in 2025?
- 2025 medical group landscape update
- Broaden your definition of the nursing care team
- AI in healthcare
- The state of the industry heading into 2026
Leadership building through Advisory Board Fellowship
Chief Operating Officers and operations executives represent a critical leadership role at healthcare organizations, responsible for overseeing the day-to-day functions and aligning operations with vision and strategy.
Operations executives are responsible for the overall operating performance of the organization. Operations executives are involved in or accountable for a broad set of initiatives involving a wide range of stakeholders — from cost containment to workforce efficiency. This is no small job as leaders face more complexity, disruption, and rapidly changing circumstances — requiring greater emotional intelligence, resilience, adaptability, and agility than ever before.
Advisory Board Fellowship is designed to help operations executives navigate the complexities of the healthcare industry and develop the capacity to more effectively advance organizational performance.
Upcoming Cohorts
Fall 2025 Launch
September 10-12 | Washington, D.C.
Custom research
Gain a competitive edge by partnering with Advisory Board researchers to deliver specific answers to your most pressing questions. Our custom research offering brings together our proven research methodology, industry expertise, and a deep understanding of your organization, equipping you with the tools and insights needed to refine your strategies and make informed decisions.
Custom research scoped to your specific need
We design custom research engagements using a variety of our capabilities to ensure the insights and tools we provide help you act on your top priorities. Sample capabilities include:
- Qualitative interviews to uncover how leading organizations and your competitors are approaching their top strategies.
- Quantitative surveys to bring you the numbers that illuminate key trends externally or internally to your organization.
- Custom benchmarking to compare yourself to peer organizations and identify top strengths and improvement opportunities.
- Customer insights to improve your market penetration and customer experience.
Opportunities for your organization in 2025
- Customized best-practice research to drive organizational performance assessments and needs diagnoses.
- Cheat sheets and discussion guides to facilitate productive conversations on issues your customers care about most.
- Stakeholder insight analyses giving you a deeper understanding of your key stakeholders, their priorities, challenges, and decision drivers.
- Custom growth driver assessments that pair qualitative and quantitative insights to identify the market forces that influence demand for particular services and offerings.
Research Membership
Data-driven, actionable insights to inform decisions
- Learn from more than 200 Advisory Board experts
- Access over 300 new research deliverables each year
- Leverage our forecasting tools to support strategic planning
Custom Research
Insight-driven answers and tailored guidance
- Get actionable insights, contextualized to your organization's challenges and priorities
- Inform your strategy with top emerging market and industry trends
- Request extensive research across topics that span the entire healthcare ecosystem
Advisory Board Events
Opportunities to network, learn, and grow your expertise
- Experience agendas aligned to your team's greatest challenges
- Tackle market challenges by collaborating with cross-sector research experts
- Connect and network with leading healthcare decision-makers
Expert Support
Expert advice and actionable guidance for healthcare executives
- Host insightful presentations for your teams or customers across relevant topics
- Get individualized support from our experts
- Overcome hurdles and energize stalled projects with workshops led by our experts
Advisory Board Fellowship
Enterprise Leadership solution to equip leaders to thrive in complexity
- Implement strategic leadership shifts proven to drive business outcomes more effectively
- Get support on critical priorities from diverse industry peers and executive coaches
- Expand personal and team capacity to address persistent challenges
Sponsorship
Opportunities to showcase your brand, product, and expertise
- Leverage our tools, tactics, and distribution channels to engage target audiences
- Grow your brand awareness
- Generate leads for your organization
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