Why you should hire physician intrapreneurs...and what to do after you have

2. San Diego Summit • October 12-14 2016
Why Hire Physician Entrepreneurs...
and How to Optimize Them Once You Have
Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA
Oct 13, 2016

3. 1. Definition of clinical entrepreneurship
2. Review types of physician entrepreneurs
3. Reasons Why You Should Hire Them
4. 10 Suggestions on What to Do Afterwards

4. • What is clinical Entrepreneurship?
–Pursuit of opportunity using
–Scarce Resources
–Goal is to create user defined value
–Through the deployment of clinical
innovation

5. Types of Physician
Entrepreneurs:
1. SME practitioners
2. Technopreneurs
3. Intrapreneurs
4. Social
Entrepreneurs
5. Service Providers
6. Investors

6. Why do top
performers
quit?http://www.inc.com/lolly-daskal/7-reasons-the-
best-employees-quit-even-when-they-like-their-
job.html

7. Stagnation

8. Overwork

9. Fuzzy vision

10. Profits over
patients

11. Lack of
recognition

12. Lack of trust

13. Bureaucracy

14. Reasons Why You
Should Hire
Physician
Entrepreneurs

15. Knowledge
technicians
are dead

16. They are
hard to find

17. You need
them for
strategic
alignment

18. Because the
good ones
you have
now will quit

19. 10 Ways to
Optimize Them

20. 1.Provide them with the
knowledge, resources,
networks, mentors and
experiential learning they
need to succeed.

21. 2. Create a transparent
innovation leadership
system

22. 3. Facilitate team building

23. 4. Set strategy, define the
vision and get out of the way

24. 5. Let them fail without
labeling them as "disruptive
physicians"

25. 6. Be sure they are
integrated into your regional
innovation ecosystem

26. 7. Absolutely, positively, walk
the walk. Never promise
something you can't deliver.
If you do, you will break the
trust you are trying to create
and never regain it.

27. 8. Be sure you have the
structure, process and
culture that fertilizes
imaginative physician
intrapreneurs

28. 9. Not everyone is motivated
by the same things. Some
want time. Some want
money. Some just want
revenge, driven by anger to
make things right based on
their values.

29. 10. Think big, but seek and
leverage small wins.

30. Contact
information:
Arlen.meyers@ucdenver.edu
SoPE at www.sopenet.org
Jabs Center for
Entrepreneurship