Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs

When Luke Gerstner wrote his memoir and the IBM turnaround, you know what he called it?

Who says elephants can't dance?

The title is a direct rebuke to everyone who said it couldn't be done.

Everyone who said IBM was too big, everyone who said they were too stuck, everyone who said it was bureaucratic to transform, they were wrong.

And everyone who says your SPD can't transform, everyone who says reactive operations are inevitable, everyone who says elephants can't dance, they're wrong too.

The elephant can dance.

But first, you have to find the stake it's chained to, the invisible beliefs, the broken system, the metrics that measure the wrong things and remove it.

And that's what this book is about.

That's what this season is about.

Now, some of you are listening to this and thinking, okay, Jake, Dr. Jake, okay, I get it.

The system is the problem.

So what's the solution?

How do I actually fix it?

And that's actually why we built what we call Steril by Design.

Steril by Design is an operating system that cures operational blindness.

It's not a consulting engagement where someone comes in and gives you a report and leaves.

It's a complete methodology, visibility systems, operating rhythms, capability development that transform how your SPD operates.

We've implemented it in community hospitals, academic medical centers,

ASCs, and now large health systems.

And the result speaks for themselves.