Preparation
This assignment is based around the Vila Health: Strategic Analysis and Operational Considerations media simulation. Be sure you have completed this activity before completing this assignment.
You may also find it useful to research on strategic planning, Porter’s five forces model, environmental scanning, and strategic frameworks beyond the resources provided.
Instructions
In addition to the scenario presented in the Vila Health: Strategic Analysis and Operational, incorporate the following change in the organization’s environment when creating your analysis for this assignment:
A new for-profit 50-bed acute care hospital is slated to open in the next eight months, offering a full complement of services.
The goal of this assignment is to create a succinct and thorough analysis of the internal and external environment for St. Anthony Medical Center. This report should help stakeholders understand the importance of understanding the environment in which the organization operates. Additionally, it should clearly lay out an analysis of the internal and external environments and apply one or more strategic frameworks to analyze the environment and raise operational considerations.
This assignment has two distinct parts:
Part 1: Understanding the Environment.
Part 2: Organizational Analysis.
When completing your assignment, read the instructions carefully to make sure you are addressing all the scoring guide criteria.
Part 1: Understanding the Environment
Relevant Scoring Guide Criteria:
Analyze the impact and importance of understanding competition within the health industry as it applies to strategic planning.
Demonstrate effective communication through writing and proper use of APA style.
Communicate in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically, with the correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
For this part of your assignment, the focus should be on providing a brief analysis of the ways in which competition within the health care industry affects strategic planning and should be incorporated into strategic planning. As a part of your analysis, you should consider the types of evidence and analysis that would be compelling to the stakeholders at St. Anthony Medical Center to ensure that they are onboard and understand the importance at considering the competition in the environment when undertaking strategic planning. This relates to both internal and external factors.
As you create this part of your assignment, it may be helpful to think about these following areas and aspects of an organization that compete for time, attention, and resources:
External competition.
Staffing.
Stakeholders.
Organizational Capacity.
Part 2: Organizational Analysis
Relevant Scoring Guide Criteria:
Analyze the internal, general, and external environment within which an organization operates.
Examine strategic frameworks of health care organizations.
Discuss implications for the organization’s future if strategic frameworks are not utilized.
Demonstrate effective communication through writing and proper use of APA style.
Communicate in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically, with the correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
For the second part of your assignment, you will present an environmental analysis for the organization. Additionally, you will discuss one or more strategic frameworks (for example, a SWOT analysis) and apply it to the scenario presented in the media simulation. Finally, you will create a compelling argument as to the need for utilizing a strategic framework and the potential implications for the organization’s future if nothing is employed.
It may be useful to apply Porter’s Five Forces of Competitive Position Analysis when conducting and communicating your analysis.
Submission Requirements
Structure: Include a title page, table of contents, and reference page.
Length: 5–7 pages.
References: Cite at least three current scholarly or professional resources.
Format: Use APA style for references and citations.
Font: Times New Roman font, 12 point, double-spaced.
