Question

Summarize the key concepts and steps that are associated with the creation and management of strategic plans in health delivery systems. What are the differences between the strategic initiatives and operating activities of a health care organization? Please include two references.

Answer 1

Strategic plans in healthcare organizations involves outlining the actionable steps needed to reach specific goals.Whike there are different strategy types and lvels ,the purpose of all strtegies is to bring an organizations actions into alignment with its stated mission or values.It also provides several benefits in healthcare organizations to become more proative with strtegy.It allows the organization to be nimble,a good strategic management approch ensures that communication and feedback on perfomance against strtegic goals occurs on a regular ryytham.

The steps in strtegic plans are

• Clarify the vision .The purpose of goal setting is to clarify the vision for the bussiness.
• gather aand analse information.
• Formulate a strtegy
• Implement the strategy
• Evaluate and control.

The most important difference between a strategic and an operational objective is its time frame.Operational objectives are short term goals,while strategic objectives are longer term goals.strategic and operational objectives also function differently in practice as a strtegic objectives are still usually too broad to make sense as a specific set of daily tasks or weekkly projects.Operational objective on the other hand are specific and short term enough to be considered usable in everyday time and asset allocation.