The everyday problem
Hospital teams rarely need every workflow changed at once. A broad transformation plan can be difficult to translate into the next month’s work. Sequencing around dependencies makes the plan easier to evaluate and helps teams understand why one improvement comes before another.
A practical approach
Group opportunities by the inputs and systems they share. Start with a bounded handoff that has clear ownership, then use what the team learns to decide the next scope. Keep unresolved access or data-quality issues visible rather than treating them as implementation details.
Try this with your team
Arrange three candidate workflows in dependency order. For each, identify its prerequisite, accountable owner, success measure, and condition for moving to the next stage.