Strategic Planning

Question 1

What is planning?

Answer 1

deciding in advance what to do, who is to do it, how it is to be done, and when it is to be done

Question 2

What type of skills does planning require?

Answer 2

management skills such as data gathering, forecasting, and transforming ideas into action

Question 3

Barriers to identifying Long term needs in planning?

Answer 3

• Health-care reform
• Rapidly changing technology
• Increasing government regulation of health care
• Scientific advances

Question 4

Types of proactive planning?

Answer 4

• Reactive planning
• Inactivism
• Preactive planning
• Interactive or proactive planning

Question 5

What is reactive planning?

Answer 5

Once the even has already occurred, planning last minute not a long term solution

Question 6

What is inactivism?

Answer 6

not doing anything, planning as we go, not proactive

Question 7

What is Preactive planning

Answer 7

Just thinking about the future

Question 8

Interactive or Proactive planning?

Answer 8

Just future oriented; the most effective method; preferable to preactive

Takes into consideration; where did we come from and where we want to go

Question 9

What must a manager do to stay informed?

Answer 9

Must understand and keep up with Legal, political, economic, and social factors affecting health care make planning errors that may have disastrous implications for their professional development and the financial viability of the organization

Question 10

What is strategic planning?

Answer 10

• Strategic planning typically examines an organization’s purpose, mission, philosophy, and goals in the context of its external environment
• taking all aspects into account
• involves past, present, future

Question 11

What is a SWOT analysis?

Answer 11

SWOT analysis are used in strategic planning, in the beginning; gives a framework to work through

Question 12

What does the S stand for in SWOT?

Answer 12

Strengths- internal attributes that help an organization to achieve its objectives.

Question 13

What does the W stand for in SWOT?

Answer 13

Weaknesses- internal attributes that challenge an organization in achieving its objectives

Question 14

What does the O stand for in SWOT?

Answer 14

Opportunities- external conditions that promote achievement of organizational objectives

Question 15

What does the T stand for in SWOT?

Answer 15

Threats - external conditions that challenge or threaten the achievement of organizational objectives.

Question 16

What is a balanced scorecard?

Answer 16

Analyzes data from four organizational perspectives. Balanced between the four attributes

Question 17

What are the 4 organizational perspectives for a balanced scorecard?

Answer 17

• Financial
• Customers
• Business Processes
• Learning and Growth

Question 18

What is forecasting?

Answer 18

• From a planning perspective- using historical patterns to assist in planning
• Examining resent clues and projected statistics to determine future needs

Question 19

List the planning hierarchy from top to bottom:

Answer 19

1. mission
2. philosophy
3. Goals
4. Objectives
5. Policies
6. Procedures
7. Rules

Question 20

What is a goal?

Answer 20

the desired result toward which effort is directed

Question 21

What is an objective?

Answer 21

how the goal will specifically be achieved (includes time frame and is measurable)

Question 22

What are policies?

Answer 22

plans reduced to statements

Question 23

What are procedures?

Answer 23

step-by-step process

Question 24

What are rules?

Answer 24

plans that specifically define acceptable choices of action

Question 25

How do you incorporate the planning hierarchy into a plan?

Answer 25

Incorporate each portion of the hierarchy in order to benefit the most possible and meet our goals.

Question 26

What should strategic planning at the management level include?

Answer 26

A clear statement of the organization’s mission

identification of the agency’s external constituencies or stakeholders

determination of their assessment of the agency’s purposes and operations

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