Question

Please answer the following question in your owns in 250 word count. I

• Based on your readings, research, and personal knowledge, what do you see as potential barriers to effective strategic planning in the health care environment?

• How does this differ from the general business world?

Answer 1

Definition of Strategic Planning

There are many academic definitions, as well as others which, although not academic, have been applied successfully by those employing them.¹ This demonstrates that what matters is the importance of the concept and idea behind the definition, rather than the definition itself.

Strategic planning is the systematic and organized process whereby an organization creates a document indicating the way it plans to progress from its current situation to the desired future situation. It is the set of decision-making criteria and the decisions taken and implemented by an organization to definitively and permanently guide its activities and structure.

We would like to highlight 2 important aspects:

• • First, it is assumed that the unit of production is not the individual but the organization. There is still a long way to go before it is fully recognized that a health professional working alone, even with sufficient material resources available, cannot solve all the challenges that arise in the current healthcare setting.

• • Second, SP has a clear transformational purpose: a) it identifies the current characteristics specific to the organization and the setting in which it operates; b) it generates a vision of how the organization wishes to be in the future; and c) it also defines the roadmap and actions required to change the organization's current situation to the desired future situation.

Potential Barriers of effective Srategic planning

Lack of Leadership

Being a leader is about more than a title following your name. It requires developing a strategy and then expressing the vision in a clear way, so the entire team understands the goal. When a vision is clearly laid out, business leaders must inspire team members to join the program for the new vision and implement new strategies.

Even when leaders do all this well, they still need to be constant motivators, project managers and evaluators of the strategy's implementation. Without motivation, new strategies fall behind as workers return to their habitual ways of doing things.

Excessive Distractions Prevent Effective Planning

Too many distractions present a significant barrier to effective planning. It could be that a leader is trying to implement too many things at once, and the team is confused about the priorities. Another way that a distraction prevents effective planning implementation occurs when a leader attempts to roll out a new program during a peak business season.

Your team can't focus on new strategies and processes if they are working overtime taking care of clients. As the leader, understand that timing the implementation of new strategy carefully is as important as the strategy itself.

Lack of Systems

Having the right systems in place to support a new strategy is important for success. Systems could include hardware or software systems or could be something as simple as the fulfillment process chain of events. Leaders need to look at the resources in place before implementing a new strategy. For example, a new customer-retention management program might help the team become more efficient from the sale through the delivery of goods.

However, if the computer systems haven't been upgraded, the new program could overload the computers and cause crashes and freezes. Team members can't be productive while using a system that isn't working correctly.

Limited Manpower to Complete Tasks

Some strategies require a bigger labor force. Without it, seeing a new strategy implemented effectively has potential problems. For example, a new lead-generation plan could do a great job of flooding your sales team with leads. However, if the sales team doesn't have the capacity to follow up with all the leads, the strategy wastes money and burns prospects.

Additionally, the new influx of orders needs a fulfillment team capable of handling the new orders. Make sure you have the right people in place to execute new strategies effectively.

Inadequate Resources and Funding

You may have a great plan but don't have the resources to execute it properly. A lack of resources can impact marketing, talent acquisition and new distribution programs. Bootstrapping new changes can strain the team as it implements something that isn't ready to go. When you don't have the funding, segment the strategy and roll it out in phases that meet budget limitations.

Impractical Business Planning

Some ideas are just not practical. Don't be stubborn about the execution of a new strategy. A strategy is a concept that is fleshed out during implementation. Business leaders must be flexible to see what is working and what isn't working in the strategy and make adjustments accordingly.

Just because something seems like a good idea on paper doesn't mean it will translate into practice without any glitches.

The healthcare industry (also called the medical industry or health economy) is an aggregation and integration of sectors within the economic system that provides goods and services to treat patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, and palliative care. It includes the generation and commercialization of goods and services lending themselves to maintaining and re-establishing health.^[1] The modern healthcare industry is divided into many sectors and depends on the interdisciplinary teams of trained professionals and paraprofessionals to meet health needs of individuals and populations.^[2][3]

The healthcare industry is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing industries.^[4] Consuming over 10 percent of gross domestic product(GDP) of most developed nations, health care can form an enormous part of a country's economy.

General Business

A type of company that serves the needs of all or mostly all members of a group or class of consumers. Alternatively, the company may supply a broad class of goods to a wide variety of buyers