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Elevated Strategy: Build the Foundation for your WFM/HCM Transformation

Choose your path. Start anywhere. Accelerate measurable outcomes with our Elevated Suite of solutions focussed on your WFM/HCM Journey

At Improv, we know no two journeys are the same. That’s why our Elevated Suite was built for flexibility—empowering organizations to Ignite, Forge, and Evolve transformation at any stage. Whether you’re defining strategy, modernizing operations, or scaling new innovations, Improv meets you where you are—and takes you further.

Strategic Guidance for Clear, Actionable Outcomes

Elevated Strategy reduces risk, accelerates ROI, and ensures your WFM/HCM transformation delivers lasting value.

  • Establishes clear business desired outcomes by assessing current capabilities, benchmarking against peers, and creating a roadmap that connects strategy to measurable value.

  • Ensures leadership, governance, and teams are prepared for change with structured evaluations and enablement support.

  • Translates strategy into action through vendor assessments, strategic oversight, and governance that guide execution while enabling ongoing refinement and continuous improvement

  • Streamlines operations by assessing processes, implementing solutions, and enabling automation, AI, and analytics for sustainable efficiency.

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  • Phased plan with priorities, milestones, and success metrics

Solutions That Fuel Your WFM/HCM Evolution

Our Elevated Care service options goes beyond traditional support by combining diagnostics, remediation, and high-touch managed services. From rapid stabilization to multi-year optimization, we meet you where you are—building confidence, reducing risk, and sustaining long-term transformation.

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Diagnostic Care

For when you’re not sure what your biggest challenges are. If you struggle with hidden inefficiencies, compliance risks, and unclear system performance, Diagnostic Care provides a systematic assessment to uncover the biggest issues. Our actionable recommendations help align stakeholders, stabilize operations and restore confidence.

Rehab Audit

  1. Approach: Onsite observations, benchmarking, in-depth system evaluation.

  2. Deliverables: Current state assessment, 3–5 year journey map, cost-benefit analysis.

  3. Timeline Expectations: Typical executed within 3-5 weeks

  4. Outcomes: Long-term modernization strategy and compliance readiness.

  5. Success Metrics: ROI opportunities defined, governance and compliance assured, roadmap clarity.

Pulse Check 

  1. Approach: Rapid system scan and focused stakeholder and end user interviews to identify immediate issues.

  2. Deliverables: Baseline assessment, quick-win action plan, high-level journey map.

  3. Timeline Expectations: Typical executed within 1 week

  4. Outcomes: Identify risks and inefficiencies early, reduce short-term disruption.

  5. Success Metrics: Clear risks flagged, immediate fixes prioritized, improved near-term stability.

Vital Insights 

  1. Approach: Expanded workshops, process mapping, and reporting/data review.

  2. Deliverables: Findings report, prioritized recommendations, refined journey map.

  3. Timeline Expectations: Typical executed within 2-3 weeks

  4. Outcomes: Medium-term improvements through process clarity and workflow redesign.

  5. Success Metrics: Documented processes, prioritized roadmap, increased alignment.

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Transformative Care

For when challenges escalate or big change is needed. If you see significant errors, high overtime costs, or solution gaps, Transformative Care delivers targeted interventions. From rapid fixes to multi-phase renewal, we resolve critical pain points and lay the foundation for long-term improvement.

Rapid Response 

  1. Approach: Immediate triage and stabilization through focused workshops and quick fixes.

  2. Deliverables: Stabilization plan, prioritized corrections, executive summary.

  3. Timeline Expectations: Typical executed within 3-8 weeks

  4. Outcomes: Rapid stabilization of urgent system issues, adoption challenges and critical barriers.

  5. Success Metrics: Critical issues resolved quickly, disruption minimized, confidence restored.

Extensive Renewal (Custom, multi-phase) 

  1. Approach: Co-created roadmap with multi-phase pilots and rollouts for systemic renewal.

  2. Deliverables: Comprehensive transformation plan, advanced labor modeling, analytics, training programs.

  3. Timeline Expectations: Customized support for your unique needs and typically a multi-phase engagement

  4. Outcomes: Long-term improvements in efficiency, compliance, and WFM/HCM performance.

  5. Success Metrics: Sustained performance gains, evolving system outcomes, measurable ROI.

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Mapping Your Unique WFM/HCM Journey

We use a structured Journey Map—Envision Organizational Value, Assess & Prioritize, Engage the Evolution, and Maximize Optimal Performance. 

Each step ensures alignment between leadership, technology, and WFM/HCM needs while reducing risks and accelerating time-to-value. Improv combines independence, industry expertise, and authenticity to deliver personalized strategies that are bold, executable, and designed for lasting impact for your organization.

Workforce Strategy That Transforms Every Industry

Elevated Strategy helps organizations in any industry to align vision, assess readiness, and optimize processes. Whether navigating compliance, reducing costs, enhancing productivity, or modernizing operations, our approach ensures strategies are practical, scalable, and tailored to deliver measurable results in any industry

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Healthcare

Align compliance, patient care priorities, and workforce efficiency to ensure both regulatory success and better patient outcomes.

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Retail

Develop workforce strategies that reduce turnover, optimize scheduling, and strengthen frontline engagement.

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Manufacturing

Reimagine workforce models to enhance productivity, reduce costs, and align operations with long-term growth.

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Public Sector

Build transparent, compliant HR and workforce systems that modernize processes while balancing fiscal responsibility

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Service & Distribution

Streamline workforce planning and scheduling to cut costs, improve on-time performance, and scale operations efficiently

Workforce Strategy That Transforms Patient-Centered Care

A leading hospital network was struggling with rising payroll errors, compliance risks, and disengaged staff. Improv applied Elevated Strategy to assess organizational readiness, optimize payroll and scheduling processes, and build a compliance-focused roadmap. The result: a significant reduction in payroll errors and stronger workforce engagement supporting patient care.

“Improv helped us align leadership and streamline operations. Their strategy not only stabilized compliance but also empowered our teams to focus more on patients.”
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Continue Your Journey

Elevated Implementation

Seamlessly execute strategies with proven WFM/HCM solutions, integrations, and change management.

Elevated Care

Seamlessly execute strategies with proven WFM/HCM solutions, integrations, and change management.

  • Yes. Improv's Elevated Strategy practice helps healthcare organizations design workforce strategies that are sustainable, data-driven, and operationally grounded. We assess your current state, model future workforce needs, and build a roadmap that aligns staffing, technology, and culture.

  • Yes. Improv offers dedicated HCM strategy services that connect your people strategy to your platform investments. Whether you're modernizing a legacy system, navigating a merger, or building workforce resilience, our strategists bring both the healthcare domain knowledge and HCM technical depth you need.

  • Yes. Improv's analytics practice — anchored by our Pulse Check and Vital Insights offerings — turns workforce data into operational intelligence. We help healthcare organizations build dashboards, define KPIs, and use predictive analytics to reduce overtime, turnover, and compliance risk.

  • Yes. Improv's advisory team functions as a trusted extension of your HR and operations leadership. We bring healthcare-specific HCM expertise to strategic planning, technology evaluation, process redesign, and organizational change — delivering clarity and confidence at every decision point.

  • Yes. Improv helps healthcare organizations leverage AI-powered workforce management capabilities — including AI-assisted scheduling, demand forecasting, and predictive labor modeling. We ensure AI features are configured correctly, adopted effectively, and governed responsibly within your compliance framework.

  • Yes. Improv's Elevated Strategy practice helps healthcare organizations design workforce strategies that connect staffing decisions to clinical and operational outcomes. We analyze patient volume, acuity patterns, and throughput data alongside workforce metrics to build staffing models that support both care quality and financial sustainability.

  • Yes. Improv's analytics practice helps healthcare organizations turn HCM data into workforce intelligence. We build custom dashboards and reporting frameworks that surface insights on scheduling efficiency, overtime trends, turnover risk, and compliance exposure — enabling leaders to make faster, more informed workforce decisions.

  • By connecting workforce analytics to patient throughput data, healthcare organizations can identify staffing patterns that correlate with delays, discharges, and capacity constraints. Improv helps build these integrated views — linking HCM platforms to clinical and operational data sources — so leaders can optimize both their workforce deployment and patient flow in real time.

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