Welcome to Module 8! This module demonstrates how a strategy may be translated into organizational objectives and action plans to ensure that they are coordinated and make the best use of human, physical, and financial resources. The focus of this module is on communicating the overall strategy to those who must develop specific action plans to accomplish the strategy and provide them with a consistent format for implementation.

Summary: The development of action plans should be thought of as an essential part of strategic management. This module discussed important implementation activities such as ensuring that the budgeting system allocated resources according to strategic priorities and the performance evaluation system rewarded people for contributing to the strategy as well as the tactics of health care organizations. The integrative nature of strategic management was underscored.

Assignment Description:

Signature Assignment Title: Overview of Communicating the Strategy and Developing Action Plans

Signature Assignment Description/Directions: Strategic Implementation Plan PowerPoint and Screencast

Your organization has requested that you develop a strategic action plan for a specific issue the healthcare organization is facing. Create a PowerPoint and screencast for the board and other staff that identifies their needs and an action plan to resolve it.

Intro:

1. Examine the relationship between situational analysis and action plans (2 slides)2. Identify the primary barriers to implementing strategies in health care organizations? How can each be overcome or removed? (2 slides)

Content

3. Examine the strategic issue the organization is facing (2 slides)4. Evaluate the plan needed. (3 slides)5. Discuss your decision-making process. (Identify those involved, responsibilities). (2 slides)6. Create the action implementation plan (Action plan 3 slides, Implementation plan, 4 slides)

This PowerPoint® (Microsoft Office) presentation should be a minimum of 20 slides, including a title and reference slide. Develop a screencast using Screencast-o-Matic and record your video screen. Use narration, images, audio, and video. Use at least four scholarly sources, and review the module’s Signature Assignment Rubric before starting your presentation. This presentation is worth 400 points for quality content and presentation.

• Length: PowerPoint 15-20 slides, Screencast 6-8 minutes.
• Structure: All your deliverables must include a title page and reference page in APA style. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment.
• References: Use the appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to move the project forward.