Since 1985, CMG has established a track record balancing hospitals' needs with those of its physician providers. Using a physician-led structured dialogue approach, CMG has assisted organizations from small, rural hospitals to large regional healthcare systems to facilitate engaging physicians in setting clinical priorities. Our clients have used this process to build specialties with sustainable clinical distinction.

Cambridge Management Group intentionally differentiates itself from larger, more rigid consulting firms. CMG's structure, industry experience and knowledge, and individualized, personal approach to each engagement enhance its ability to provide practical and reality-based solutions. Among CMG's distinguishing characteristics are the firm's:

• comfort and success in working with doctors—
  • understanding the delicate relationship between physicians and hospitals
  • gaining physician trust and respect
  • bringing hospital managers and physicians to consensus.
    
    
• small size and active, available senior consultants—
  • giving clients personalized, and personal, attention from the experienced senior members of the firm, who are not busy managing a "pyramid" of junior staff.
    
    
• industry knowledge and experience—
  • serving only health care organizations, and having the necessary health care operations and consulting experience to diagnose client problems and apply seasoned, skeptical, yet creative thinking to generate solutions.
    
    
• willingness to be a collegial participant and leader, not a distant expert—
  • willing and able to work with clients to arrive at practical, reality-based solutions.
    
    
• ability to facilitate learning and decision-making among client groups—
  • using proven methods, taking time to help clients "process" information or move quickly to resolution, depending on the client's needs and time frame.
    
    
• disciplined approach to project fees—
  • working primarily on a fixed, project fee basis, avoiding the temptation to stretch fees by adding expensive time-based incremental billing, focusing instead on achieving maximum results for its clients.

Cambridge Management Group's vision is to build a professional organization that provides excellent service to clients, offers insightful leadership to the health care industry, meets the professional and intellectual needs of its members, and creates an atmosphere that emphasizes teamwork on behalf of the client while respecting each individual's personal strengths and aspirations. Each member of the firm is committed to this vision.