The old adage, "You can't manage what you don't measure," especially applies when organizations attempt to streamline operations within corporate services. We'll discuss how to use internal and external benchmarks to foster an environment of continuous improvement by triangulating monthly performance evaluation against the market for relationships and causation in order to evaluate true cost savings opportunities.

Rolling forecasting has come to the fore among increasing numbers of hospitals and health systems as a complement or replacement for the annual budget.

As the global pandemic clearly demonstrated, local, regional, and national factors can render an annual budget useless overnight. Even the routine economic and market forces that all industries face can impact budgets, which age rapidly following creation and adoption.