Planning Flashcards
Define Planning
Deciding what to do in advance and who to do it
Barriers to long term planning
Health care reform
Technology changing
Gov. regulations
Science advancing
Inactivism
We don’t make any changes very quick bc we try to maintain status quo
Preactive
Using technology to accelerate planning
The future is more important than the present
Interactive/Proactive planning
Future oriented in combination with our current status
Reactive planning
You react to things as they happen
Why do managers need to remain informed about legal, politics, economics, and socially?
All these things can affect healthcare planning.
Define strategic planning
Examine’s the organizations purpose, mission, philosophy, and goals in the context of its external environment to see if they’re still relevant
- includes past, present, future
What is a SWOT analysis?
Strengths that are internal
Weakness that are internal
Opportunities that are external
Threats that are external
Why and how we use a balanced scorecard?
We use them to analyze data to see where you do well and where you can do better
- financials
- customers
- business
- learning and growth
What is Forecasting?
Using available historical patterns to assist in planning
We look at present clues to determine our future needs
- What needs will we need due to the current population of babies born in Gen z?
planning hierarchy
mission
philisophy
goals
objectives
policies
procedures
rules
What should strategic planning as a management process include?
- clear statement of mision
- identify stakeholders and their assessment of purpose
- delineation of goals and objectives in 3-5 yr plan
- strategies to achieve the goal
When doing strategic planning should employees POV be considered?
Yes the subordinate opinion helps by giving meaning and success
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