From Bookshelf to Action will chart the course of developing a strategic plan through implementation. Explore the reasons strategic plans can fail to take the leap off the bookshelf. Learn how planning can continue to evolve through three stages: building and stabilizing, institutionalizing, and operationalizing. Find out how to develop strategic plan oversight, engage the physician enterprise, and propel a strategic vision through the implementation obstacle course. Gain an understanding of how to design a strategic plan that leads a process of implementation and change in both operational and capital funding mechanisms.