Abstract
Institutional operating room (OR) management is an established and indispensable component of organizational structures in most hospitals, independent of the level of care. In this role, OR management needs to consider both the high fixed costs of operation areas and the increased relevancy of generated revenue. Therefore, in the day to day operations, OR management strives to ensure reliable and safe patient care amidst efficient use of resources and high patient and employee satisfaction. Given these aims, proven strategies, such as constituting processes and responsibilities by OR statutes or tracking key figures and indicators of the OR, must be continuously supplemented and improved upon by OR management. In the future, OR management can derive innovative methods from adaptable capacity management, agile forms of collaboration, integrating upstream and downstream segments into OR management general process organization, and harnessing the potentials of artificial intelligence. Innovation in the face of these and other challenges contributes to improving long-term interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration in the OR and with the numerous adjacent teams.