Boundary Spanning

Boundary spanning is important asset for all leaders in an organization. It gives update on all the parameters that a leader should consider. It is important to collaborate effective management across boundaries. In today’s world, it is very much necessary to know outside the organization, what’s happening around them and how the competitors are evolving. As a leader, we need to develop groups and teams across boundaries. It is very much important for a leader in a health care industry to go beyond the boundaries and know about the competitor’s positive and negative aspects. Boundary spanning is a 360-degree aspect in which a leader should be in touch of communities, organizations etc. At present, around the world, in growing health care, many

Using informal communication and methods such as email and phone calls allow the managers to communicate the information to concentrate on internal issues that may occur.

In healthcare industry, it is useful to know insight of other health organizations which we are not aware of. Boundary spanning in health care organizations allow a company to gain more information about other businesses. Companies can reduce boundaries by making partnership with other companies. It is helpful for some companies to merge with bigger companies to gain advantage like knowing competitor’s strategies and to take on more market share. Another boundary spanning technique is a joint venture. A joint venture is when two or more companies come together to develop which, one could not handle. For example, Sagar hospitals and Apollo hospitals came together as a joint venture. Because of merging, Sagar Apollo hospitals pulled more crowd with improved facilities and they have captured the market. They have reshaped their policies, systems and processes to increase the efficiency of the organization. The main step of leaders is to see the diversity of existing relationships and networks. Synergy is also one of the technique where two or more companies come together to produce something which they could not do