Question

Discuss why strategic planning in healthcare is important to an organization’s proposed new services.

Answer 1

Strategic planning helps an organization to perform better calculating all the resources and energy it has and how to use optimistically. It helps to identify the loopholes that might not allow organization to reach at it's higher scale and how to fix those weakness.
Planning involves setting objectives and goals where the organization wants to reach in near future.
For strategic plans in healthcare, organization need to focus and work. It mut ensure that they are following steps rather than going on a free for all. Following the strategy, avoiding too many matrices, clearly defining roles, responsiblies will make the plan work.

When the organization propose new service then it is necessary than it has clear mapping over directions and goals that it has to achieve. It gives sense of right decision, creating progress chart and changing approach when necessary.
Since each service provided by organization requires a different way to lead. Replication of prior objective might not work for the new service. Depending on the demand and how well service will satisfy the customers is more important.

There are certain steps in planning which needs to follow before proposing new service.
Develop the mission and vision which needs to be review in continuous basis. Each vision must support overall business.
Technological goals must go hand in hand. Since they are dependent on each other, they need to be processed together.
Business analysis should be done. What are weakness, threat to market, competitors, opportunities and internal strengths should be calculated.
Developing all the strategy provided inputs should be done.
How the strategy will be excuted, must be part of plan. Calculating all the possible events with their probability and learning from past experience is important. What previously failed should not repeat.
Last but not the least review the plan and put all the means to make service successful.