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The most commonly experienced impediments across all four initiatives remained internal resource constraints and competing priorities .
The results from the 2021 survey were consistent with survey results from 2018 , 2019 , and 2020 , with internal resource constraints and competing priorities in organizations remaining the biggest impediments at organizations .
Across all four initiatives , approximately 44-50 % identified internal resources constraints as a leading impediment , and approximately 44-48 % identified competing priorities as a leading impediment . The percent ranges of the third and fourth most challenging impediments varied more than the top rated between individual initiatives , with between 19-38 % selecting vendor / software limitations as an impediment and 18-29 % selected political resistance to change from internal stakeholders and / or providers as an impediment . Lack of vision from leadership was consistently selected least often across the four initiatives , with percentages hovering around 17 % within all four initiatives , and those who selected there was an “ other ” impediment impacting each initiative at their organization ranged from 11-15 %.
Q . What are the biggest impediments to _____ at your organization ?
Internal resource constraints in our organization
Competing priorities in our organization
Process Improvement
Provider Data Management
Centralization & Enterprise Standardization
Service Expansion
46.5 % 48.5 % 44.0 % 49.5 %
44.8 % 45.6 % 46.4 % 47.9 %
Vendor / software limitations 37.8 % 33.3 % 23.8 % 19.4 %
Political resistance to change from internal stakeholders and / or providers
Lack of vision from leadership in our organization
18.5 % 18.3 % 28.5 % 19.9 %
17.8 % 17.6 % 17.0 % 17.3 % Other 14.6 % 11.9 % 15.0 % 13.6 %
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