HA 700 - Strategic Planning and Management

Assignments: 12 weekly assignments

Interactivity: Weekly live session

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Evaluate the effectiveness of strategic management in a turbulent health care environment.
• Recognize that strategic planning is an iterative process and not just a written document.
• Explain the importance of strategic thinking in the conversion of data into strategy formulation.
• Recognize the importance of both an internal and external environmental assessment in the strategic planning process.
• Distinguish between a strategic and operations orientation and analyze the importance of each for organizational success.
• Utilize a customer and stakeholder needs and expectations approach as key elements in strategic management.
• Apply the elements of strategic planning models to direct organizational success.
• Create a strategic plan for a health care organization.