Reference no: EM13864620
Internal and External Assessments for Strategic Planning
The case study selected demonstrate some of the dilemmas of strategic planning encountered in different settings. For any health care organization, internal and external assessments are an important part of the strategic planning process.
Prepare for this Discussion as follows:
Review the case study information in attachment.
"What Would You Do? Affiliate, Merge, or Stay Independent?"
As you review your selected case study, consider the following:
What are the important steps to take while conducting internal and external assessments? What information in the case study is relevant for the assessments this organization would likely conduct?
What steps would you recommend to gather additional, pertinent data (not included in the case study) as part of the assessment phase? Why would this data be important? How might it influence strategic planning?
Identify one internal or external factor described in the case and consider how the assessments might differ if it changed. For instance, how might this scenario be different if the organization were actually located in your community? You may also other consider influences, such as current health care reform, and their effects on the assessments.
ASSIGNMENT - response to the following address each bullet point :
Identify the case study you have selected in the first line of the posting.
Summarize the information in the case that is relevant to internal and external assessments, including the important steps the organization would most likely need to take.
Describe the actions you would recommend for gathering additional data; explain why this data might be valuable.
Hypothesize how internal and/or external assessments might differ with a change to one or more elements of this case.
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