Asset Management for Healthcare continues to follow and recap
significant events concerning the Stanley Black and Decker acquisition of
Aeroscout. The blog has consistently
led announcements concerning the acquisition.
Here are quotes from some prior posts relevant to the latest news. Please check the blog archives to read the
related threads.
May 21, 2012 -Moving down to
where Aeroscout may fall, I found no list of who directly manages Stanley
Healthcare Solutions (SHS) - no general manager, no CEO, no SVP. There
were no links back to the Stanley Black and Decker website, either.
May 24, 2012 - So, what’s the best
structure to work out those redundancies and what part will Aeroscout play in
the streamlining the hardware, software and professional services? Perhaps this is where the reports of having Aeroscout
to act as a research and development center may come into play. Or will InfoLogix take that lead? We will find out soon enough.
In saying that, I am more curious to learn whether Stanley Healthcare
Solutions will continue to fall under Stanley Black and Decker’s security
segment.
First, let’s answer the question of whether a Stanley Black and
Decker senior executive would emerge as clearly the person in charge of Stanley
Healthcare Solution? And the answer is
… yes. Bert Davis is now the Senior
Vice President and President of Stanley
Healthcare Solutions. His previous title was Chief Information
Officer/SFS (The Stanley Fulfillment System). This appears to mean that Stanley Healthcare
Solutions no longer falls under the security sector. So, 2 questions from the previous blog posts
are answered.
The
question of what’s the best structure to work out the hardware, service, and
application redundancies, that structure is clearly The Stanley Fulfillment
System. The Stanley Fulfillment System
is more than a business unit. It is a
philosophy and a practice that drives operational improvement, profitability,
and value to the customer. This includes
streamlining technology platforms which leads to more understandable solutions
for the customer. That means a clearly
defined mission and additional resources for the Chief Technology Officer.
In
other words, a great deal of that focus and resources may be headed straight
for Stanley Healthcare. The amount of
the load, C-23 Sherpa, C-130 Hercules, or C-17 Globemasters’ worth…? We will have to assess that in the future.
Then…
there is the matter of Joel Cook’s new position. He is now the Director of Healthcare. His former public profile stated Sales
Director, West Region Healthcare for Aeroscout. Joel was one of the positive influences I
encountered during the project of which I wrote about in my book, Covering Your Assets By Exposing The Butt-Ugly Truth. He has the ability to leave an executive sales
meeting and walk right into to dicey implementation and straighten it out,
including troubleshooting why different technologies are not producing the
desired outcome. I am not saying that
there aren’t other sales and marketing types who can do the same. In fact, I know that there are others. I am just pointing out that I believe he
understands the RTLS environment as it relates to healthcare along with the
variety of technologies and techniques we need.
He is teamed up with a former CIO deeply involved in The Stanley
Fulfillment System. It shows that
Stanley did not just buy a company and put the plans for it on the back burner.
Here
is the recount: The Stanley Fulfillment System, a single, clearly identifiable
leader, the realignment of Bert Davis and Joel Cook, possibly a research center
sitting in Israel and Stanley Healthcare Solutions seems to no longer fall under
the Security Segment. I am not sure who
makes up the rest of the team but my overall impression - this is a positive directional
shift for Stanley Healthcare Solutions.
Will
the team meld into one? How long will it
take the new
leaders to drive the hardware, service, and applications
through The
Stanley Fulfillment System? We will have
to
track that as well.
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