Question

A “strategic plan” is made up of six plans. List and explain each of these plans. Also make sure that you explain the importance that each plan makes to the entire strategic plan

Answer 1

Strategic Planning enables an organization to look into future in an orderly and systematic way, ensures that a hospital remains relevant and responsive to patient and community needs and provides a clear and consistent organizational focus. It also provides a basis for monitoring progress, results and impact.

SIX PLANS INCLUDED IN STRATEGIC PLAN IS AS FOLLOWS:-

1. VISION:- By developing vision statement, your organization makes beliefs and governing principles of your organization will also be cleared to the community and also to the members participated in the strategic plan. Vision statement communicates that what your organization believes are the ideal conditions of the community and these issues are important to be perfectly addressed.
2. MISION:- Mision statement describes what an organization is going to do for the community. The mision statement might refer to the problem that an organization wants to resolve such as providing adequate healthcare access to everyone. Mision statement should be concise and outcome oriented.
3. OBJECTIVES:- These refer to the specific measurable results for the initiatives taken by the organization. The objectives are the main guidelines of the organization and they provide layout as what will be done and when and within some specific time how much work is accomplished.
4. STRATEGIES:- The strategies are used to explain how the initiative taken by the organization will reach to its objectives. Strategies of an organization includes people from different sectors and parts of the commmunity that work collaborately to accomplish the goals.
5. ACTION PLAN:- It includes details that exactly how the strategies will implement to accomplish the objectives. Action plan refers to specific changes that the organization wants and specific action steps necessary to bring about changes in all the relevant sectors and parts of the community. It includes the plan that what should be done, which person is concerned to which work, what are the barriers that are need to be overcome and the collaboration from other people.
6. REVIEW:- To ensure performance you need to hold regular reviews accordingly and these reviews should be atleast once a quarter and possibly monthly depending on your organization.