The HMC Span of Control™ Analysis

How the Analysis Works

The HMC Span of Control Analysis is the industry's first and most comprehensive measure of management effectiveness: it quantifies organizational flatness, highlights departmental fragmentation, and identifies excessive management layers. The analysis turns ordinary organizational charts into a powerful tool for improving current structures and determining future management needs.

Benefits of Using the HMC Span of Control™ Analysis

• Lower payroll costs
• Fewer management layers
• Optimize talent
• Balance managerial workloads
• Maximize managerial capacity
• Faster decision making
• Improve communication
• Preserve direct caregivers

The Process

• HMC scrubs your chart data and converts it to our standardized peer-to-peer categories and hierarchy
• HMC compares your structure to your peers, to see where you have too many managers, where managers are under-utilized, and where departments can be consolidated.
• HMC provides you with a model (see: SPOM, below) of the smallest practical organization that could run your hospital
• You use this information to streamline and flatten your organization.

The HMC Smallest Practical Organization Modeler™ (SPOM)

How the Analysis Works

The SPOM presents a number of different points-of-view of your organization, allowing you to isolate excess positions within the chain-of-command by department, type of department, Senior Manager in charge, or any other scheme important to your organization. This helps you to think about, formulate, and test your re-organization plans.