Health Services

· Per the text, the health care industry is known as one of the most complex operational environments, placing a premium on excellence in strategic planning and management. Determine the key reasons why health care marketing professionals should realize such complexity. Provide an example to support your rationale.

· Appraise the value offered by Ries and Trout's Marketing Warfare Strategies in assisting in the understanding and implementation of competitor-oriented marketing strategies that can be employed to increase market share. Provide at least two specific examples of the Ries and Trout's Marketing Warfare Strategies Model that apply within a health care organization with which you are familiar.