Autism Transformation Case Study Leveraging a Goal-Led Approach

Most of us are tasked with transformational change, and as a result are challenged to assemble, coordinate, and track the methods, resources, and tools necessary for transformation. While this case study is still ongoing, the expected results will send ripples throughout the health and therapy industries. It's going to change the way treatment plans work for autism forever. It is an innovation that will become a movement because it is newsworthy and worth watching. It leverages goal-led collaboration and takes treatment to a new level of efficiency and effectiveness. Let’s dive into this exciting transformation that promises huge industry change by treating the whole family that autism impacts.

The Challenge

· Most experience delays in getting diagnosed and many are not getting diagnosed at all

· There are waitlists for services, and many are not Receiving the hours they are prescribed

· Care across the services provided is not coordinated

The problems with managing autism from diagnosis to service completion are immense. First and foremost, children are diagnosed late because the hurdles to getting diagnosed are high. It is almost impossible to get approvals from insurance companies to leverage the scarce resources of counselors and move on to the methods and technicians that can help the situation. The other major issue is that the parents are considered in the treatment plans, and the whole household is not considered for treatment. Often getting the autistic family/household to services is quite challenging. Also, the amount of paperwork and red tape is taking away from the scarce treatment resources. Therefore, the failure rate is unacceptable even when permission for counseling is granted.

The Solution

It starts with goal-led frameworks designed to optimize the end-to-end experience for the patient, the family, and service resources. It begins with placing the parents at the center of the process by teaching the value of long-term support for the whole family unit throughout the treatment plan timeline. Next, it focuses on several vital subgoals to get through the insurance authorization and get things going quicker. Finally, it breaks down into these five subgoals that are being coordinated individually and collectively to attain the primary goal:

· Diagnose as Early as Possible

· Get Access to Services as Quickly as Possible

· Activate Parents

· Deliver Care to the Family

· Graduate to New Freedoms

The Benefits

The benefits were derived from goal-led collaboration, and continuous optimization individually, and collectively aimed at the primary goal. There were immediate benefits for more family happiness while unlocking the potential of the child and the family unit in new ways. The parents become educated advocates following a customized and designed plan leading to more direct results quicker. It reduces iterations and false steps, optimizing the service resources. Communication with all parties helps in each case and treats the problems holistically. There is clarity around actions and faster paths to results through following a customized and designed experience. It also enables treating younger and younger children giving treatment momentum early in children's lives.

Net; Net:

This approach generates happier families living to their full potential as early as possible while optimizing the counselors, cases, service providers, and administrative tasks. The goal-based system allows for continuous and constant iteration for better results keeping all parties up to date on the status of people and procedures. It will prove productive for kids at all levels on the autism spectrum. Watch this space for an update.



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Case Study Goal Life Cycle Impacts Highlighted in Blue

For an Explanation of the Goal Life Cycle Components Please Refer to the Blog Posts Below

For a Goal Life Cycle Explanation, click here

For Better Goal Management, click here

For Goal Led Technologies, click here

What Were Folks Reading in the 1st Quarter 2022?

Organizations are trying to balance innovation with profitability. This puts a premium on better transparency and staying on track with goal-led approaches. All of this while chasing a shifting supply chain plagued by COVID, the Ukrainian conflict, and growing pressures in the Pacific region. Speed to manage change seems to be the focus along with the savings that automation delivers to drive savings leveraged for the bottom line and innovation. Five years ago innovation would be the primary focus without the pressures we face today. Look at the results for the first quarter's readings and see if you have another reason

The offshore activity seems to be consistent with 2021 results with heavier than usual activity in the Northern European countries. 

The last 12 months' activity is certainly worth a study as well

Art for the 1st Quarter 2022

This quarter I decided to do nothing but experimental art. I used a lot of flow techniques and tried a couple of heart-shaped canvases for fun. While Sherry loved one of the pieces and took it for our master bedroom, I'm not sure how others will react to these pieces. While I have had luck selling abstracts paintings before, my fractals seem to get the most interest. Let me know what you think :) If you want to see some of my previous pieces, click here   If you have better names for the pieces, let me know. Thanks to Benoit Lheureux for the title "Discordiant Ripples" 

                                                       Waves of Color

Discordant Ripples

                                                       Turbulence

                                                          Melting Heart

                                                          Heart Flow 1

                                                           Heart Flow 2

If you are interested in purchasing any of my works, contact me at jim.sinur@gmail.com and we can work out the details. 

Key Technologies Supporting Goals

There is a significant emphasis on managing goals and their interactions in today's demanding business world. Today’s goals are not only stretch goals, but they also often appear to be at odds with each other and out of touch with stakeholders' needs. Financial goals which are picking up steam seem to be at odds with digital progress. Savvy organizations balance these goals by focusing on managing goals in real-time and leveraging vital technologies to attain these goals. This post will describe how these key newer technologies support the Goal Life Cycle (GLC) and better goal management. Remember that these are the more modern and effective technical supports for goals. For many decades, most organizations have been limping along with traditional presentation tools and spreadsheets. These conventional tools still contribute to goals but lack the high speed and connected visibility essential in today’s changing business environment.

Collaboration Tools

Collaboration tools have been on fire recently because they speed up communication uniquely. They can support group collaboration, and everyone can either point to or attach content. This real advantage in supporting the GLC, and any adjustments necessary in goal attainment can be communicated rapidly. The problem with random communications that are really fast is that they can inundate the receivers and create distractions. A new variety of goal-focused collaboration tools are gaining momentum as all communications are linked to stakeholders and high-value goals through dynamic repository-based goal models. They are called goal-lead communication tools, and they cut through the noise while adding excellent visibility to all participants.

Case Management

Case management really focuses on goals and milestone attainment rather than activity sequences. Mostly case management is about reaching goals, but it is also rich in information about why specific goals are not being completed. This information can play a crucial role in adjusting goals or identifying anomalies that require innovation and thought. Exceptions are handled well in case management, and it coordinates the appropriate people and systems to act correctly to reach goals.

Low Code

Low code is a way to abbreviate program coding and open the programming world to those who are not tech-savvy. Often a model-driven or drop-down menu approach to creating processes, action steps, and microcode. Low code delivers a faster reaction to underlying processes, and code changes when goals change. Many process and workflow technologies practice the low code approach run by business professionals.

Data Mining

Data mining is a crucial way to watch the physical world of actions/data, and content to adjust goals in the GLC. While real-time mining might adapt the execution of an action in flight, its contribution generally revolves around finding patterns that may require new steps. Mining can involve data logs, extending to content live images, voice, and videos. Mining can handle raw data in context, but it can also reach to add analysis and learning.

Explicit Rules/Parameters

Where goal volatility or conditional action can be anticipated, many application developers depend on rules, parameters, and boundaries outside the system of execution. Goal changes imply changes in rules that can be changed immediately to alter new targets. It helps in delivering the attainment of dynamic or emergent goals. It also enables speedy adjustment to goal changes.

RPA

Robotic automation is a great way to create low-cost and speedy attainment of known goals. They tend to be well-worn paths, but they are closely watched for tolerance variation that could imply reaching for new adjustments in plans and stakeholder visibility. As more intelligent bots emerge and evolve that are data, AI, or algorithm-driven, RPA will create more transparency touchpoints and suggestions for goal adjustment.

AI

Today AI is rich in learnings that can potentially point out the need for goal adjustment and new goals to pursue. AI, as it evolves, will sense, decide and act more proactively, assisting management with the GLC and maybe dynamically automating part of the process to get better goal attainment performance. The roundtripping from learning to changed actions is an area for rich future development for AI.

Net; Net:

While each of these technology supports for the GLC and goal attainment was described in a categorized fashion, we will see savvy organizations and vendors combine multiple siloed technical supports into powerful combinations and even Digital Business Platforms (DBP). Goal collaboration platforms will emerge to lead in the development and maintenance of goals that drive business outcomes that adapt to change and even business scenarios.