1) If you wanted to implement a Must Haves program in your organization, what elements would you include in your implementation plan? What metrics would you use to measure the success of the initiative?

2) A community task force has been formed to improve the coordination of care for the frail elderly. Given the large number of people and agencies involved in providing services to this population, how would you balance the need for representation with the need to keep the task force size to a manageable level?

3) Health care in the US has been traditionally a mixture of not-for-profit and for-profit organizations. Do you think that markets where more for-profit firms exist would be inherently more competitive? Why or why not?

4) An important aspect of strategic planning is analyzing the internal and external environments. Recently, a large organization completed their environmental analyses only using a very extensive SWOT process. They then used the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threat generated by this process as their environmental analysis. What would be the value of using this technique only? Should other methods also be used? How could data trends be used?