Module 6 Assignment: Strategy Implementation

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Welcome to Module 6! Strategic momentum entails putting strategies to work, strategy evaluation and control, and strategic awareness. Implementation requires that strategic managers shape and coordinate the value chain components and ensure that the organization’s action plans are direct to selected strategies. This module addresses the development of implementation plans through either maintaining or changing the pre-service, point-of-service, and after-service strategies.

Assignment Description:

For this assignment, based on your Chapter readings for this module, create an essay discussing the following:

  1. Explain the linkage between internal environmental analysis and the value-adding service delivery and support strategies.
  2. How are the value-adding strategies linked with action plans?
  3. How does the marketing of a service differ from the marketing of a physical product (good)?
  • Length: 1500-2000 words.
  • Structure: Include a Title page in APA style.
  • References: Include at least two scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook and provided material.

Module 5 Assignment: Evaluation of Alternatives and Strategic Choice

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Welcome to Module 5! This module provides an in-depth discussion of how to evaluate the strategic alternatives within each strategy type in the decision chain. These evaluation methods do not make the strategy decision but, rather, are constructs or maps for helping strategists think about the organization and its relative situation, thus enabling them to understand the potential risks and rewards of strategic choices.

Summary: Several strategic alternatives are available to health care organizations. To initiate strategic thinking and planning, the organization must have a process in place for understanding the internal and external environments and methods for evaluating strategic alternatives. This module provided several frameworks for evaluating adaptive strategies, market entry strategies, and competitive strategies. Methods to evaluate the adaptive strategies include the TOWS matrix, PLC analysis, portfolio analysis, and extended portfolio matrix analysis, SPACE analysis, and program evaluation. Market entry strategies are selected after the appropriate adaptive strategy is identified, which allows for expansion and maintenance of scope. Lastly, competitive strategies, which include strategic posturing and positioning strategies, are evaluated and selected.

Assignment Description:

For this assignment, based on your Chapter readings for this module, create an essay discussing the following:

1. Why should program evaluation be used for public health and not-for-profit institutions in the development of adaptive strategies?2. Explain the strategic position and action evaluation (SPACE) matrix. How may adaptive strategic alternatives be developed using SPACE?

  • Length: 1500-2000 words.
  • Structure: Include a Title page in APA style.
  • References: Include at least two scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook and provided material.

Internal customers but to truly add value

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People professionals provide a service to internal customers but to truly add value, people professions need to understand their customer’s needs. Discuss processes for consulting and engaging with internal customers to understand their needs. (AC 3.3) Sample Solution

Explain a Positive Organizational Culture

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Choose an organization such as Zappos or Southwest Airlines that is well known in the business world for their strong organizational culture. Determine which theories this organization has used as a foundation for building its culture. Use this information to create an informational lecture you could present to a class of MBA students that analyzes […]