Overview of Strategic Plan

Choose a health care organization to use for your course project. You may use the organization where you currently work or where you worked previously, or you may opt to use the Community Hospital Healthcare System: A Strategic Management Case Study, linked in the Resources. You should have enough knowledge about the organization to complete the course assignments.

Consult your completed Worksheet 1 as you begin your work on this assignment. You will not submit this worksheet, but will use the information you add to the worksheet to develop an overview of the strategic planning process for the organization you chose. You will also need to support your work on this assignment with references to at least three professional resources.

Assignment Requirements

Use the information from your completed Worksheet 1 to develop a 2–3 page overview of the strategic planning process for the organization you have chosen to use. In your overview:

Identify the strategic planning outcomes. Keep in mind that the outcomes should be specific and measurable.

Describe the key components of the strategic planning process.

Define the strategic planning schedule.

Analyze past strategies to determine the reasons for their successes and failures.

Explain the strategies used in the past.

Identify the factors that contributed to the success or failure of the strategies.

Explain how this information can be used to improve the process for your project.

Communicate in a manner that is consistent with professional expectations; create a document that is clearly written, well-organized, and generally free of grammatical errors.

Be sure your assignment is organized logically, using headings and sub-headings appropriately. Follow APA guidelines for in-text citations and references.