Exam #1: Chapter 7 - Strategic Planning and Planned Change Flashcards
Planning
- Deciding in advance what to do, who is to do it, how it is to be done, and when it is to be done.
- Is a proactive, deliberate process required of all managers.
-Is a guide for action in reaching a goal and requires flexibility and energy. - Also requires management skills such as data gathering, forecasting, and transforming ideas into action.
Barriers to Identifying Long-Term Needs in Planning include
- Hospital systems filling the gaps in health care
- Value versus volume
- Revenue management versus cost management
- Health-care costs and government regulation
- Rapidly changing technology
- Consumer focus
- Interprofessional collaboration
- Scientific advances
Factors Influencing the Future of Health Care include
- Robotic technology
- Biomechatronics
- Biometrics and smart cards
- Point-of-care testing
- Telehealth and the Internet
- Growing elderly population
- Nursing shortages in acute care hospitals
Reactivists
Plan after a problem exists
Inactivists
Consider the status quo as the stable environment and they spend a great deal of energy preventing change and maintaining conformity
Preactive Planners
Utilize technology to accelerate change are future-oriented
Proactive Planning
- Is always the goal
- Is dynamic and adaptation is considered to be a key requirement because the environment changes so frequently.
- Considers the past, present, and future and attempts to plan the future of an organization rather than react to it.
Forecasting
- Using available historical patterns to assist in planning.
- Examining present clues and projected statistics to determine future needs.
Strategic Planning
- Complex, long range planning (3-10 years), big picture
- Focuses on mission, visions, philosophy and goals r/t external organization environment.
What does SWOT stand for?
S (Strengths) are those internal attributes that help an organization to achieve its objectives
W (Weaknesses) are those internal attributes that challenge an organization in achieving its objectives
O (Opportunities) are external conditions that promote achievement of organization objectives
T (Threats) are external conditions that challenge or threaten the achievement of organizational objectives
Simple Rules for SWOT Analysis
- Be realistic about strengths and weaknesses of your organization
- Be clear about how the present organization differs from what might be possible in the future
- Be specific about what you want to accomplish
- Always apply SWOT in relation to your competitors
- Keep SWOT short and simple
- Remember that SWOT is subjective
Tools for Strategic Planning: Balanced scorecard
- Develop metrics
- Collect data
- Analyze that data from four organizational perspectives: financial, customers, business processes, learning/growth
What are steps for using strategic planning?
- Clearly define the purpose of the organization.
- Establish realistic goals and objectives.
- Identify external constituencies and determine their assessment of the organization’s purposes.
- Clearly communicate the goals to the constituents.
- Develop a sense of ownership of the plan.
- Develop strategies to achieve the goals.
- Ensure that the most effective use is made of resources.
- Provide a base from which progress can be measured.
Strategies for Successful Planning include
- Start planning at the top.
- Keep planning organized, clear, and definite.
- Do not bypass levels of people.
- Have short- and long-range plans and goals.
- Know when to plan and when not to.
- Keep target dates realistic.
- Gather data appropriately.
- Be sure objectives are clear.
- Remember, interpersonal relationships are important.
Principles of Good Planning
- All plans must flow from other plans. Short-range plans must be congruent with long-range plans.
- Planning in all areas of the organization must follow the mission, philosophy, and goals of the overall organization.
- Planning involves the same process regardless of the period involved.
- The length of the plan is determined by what actions are necessary to make the plan successful.
- All planning must include an evaluation step and requires periodic reevaluation and prioritization.
- All people and organizational units affected by a plan should be included in the planning.
Why do plans fail?
- False assumptions
- Not knowing overall goal
- Not enough alternatives
- Inadequate time or other resources
- Low motivation levels
- Sound strategies not used
- Inadequate delegation of authority
- Not recognizing organizational goals and needs
- Planning too narrow in scope—not recognizing community, legal, and licensing requirements
Strategic Planning as a Management Process should include the following
- A clear statement of the organization’s mission
- The identification of the agency’s external constituencies or stakeholders and the determination of their assessment of the agency’s purposes and operations
- The delineation of the agency’s strategic goals and objectives, typically in a 3- to 5-year plan
- The development of strategies to achieve the goals
Subordinate Input in Strategic Plans
There is increasing recognition of the importance of subordinate input from all levels of the organization to give strategic plans meaning and to increase the likelihood of their successful implementation.
The Planning Hierarchy
- Mission
- Philosophy
- Goals
- Objectives
- Policies
- Procedures
- Rules
Organization Philosophy Statement
A person should be able to identify exactly how the organization is implementing its philosophy by observing members of the nursing staff, reviewing the budgetary priorities, and talking to patients.
Goal
The desired result toward which effort is directed
Objectives
How the goal will specifically be achieved (includes time frame and is measurable)
Policies
Plans reduced to statements
Procedures
Step-by-step process
