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Developing strategic planning systems for health care organizations
Health Care Strategic Management
|October 7, 1986
Summary
Health care leaders can improve strategic planning systems (SPSs) by addressing information, communication, and involvement. This approach avoids pitfalls seen in traditional industries, optimizing healthcare strategic planning.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Management
- Strategic Planning
- Organizational Systems
Background:
- Traditional industrial strategic planning systems (SPSs) exhibit significant shortcomings.
- Healthcare organizations face unique challenges in implementing effective SPSs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify the problems and potentials of SPSs specifically within healthcare firms.
- To frame the analysis of healthcare SPSs using key dimensions.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of existing SPS shortcomings in industrial settings.
- Framing healthcare SPSs through the dimensions of information, communication, and involvement.
Main Results:
- Healthcare administrators can design improved SPSs by learning from industrial failures.
- Key dimensions for optimizing healthcare SPSs are information, communication, and involvement.
Conclusions:
- Strategic planning systems in healthcare can be enhanced by focusing on information flow, communication channels, and stakeholder involvement.
- Proactive design of SPSs can mitigate common organizational planning failures in the healthcare sector.