Strategy question
You are two weeks into a six-week forward-deployed engagement when three things happen at once: the partner asks for additional scope, engineering finds an integration blocker, and executives want a firm go-live date. How would you re-scope the work, protect pod focus and pace, make the right trade-offs, and keep hospital leadership aligned on an outcome that is still worth shipping?
- Abridge
- Strategy
- Hard
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