Module 06 Capstone Portfolio Assignment - Transferable Skills Reflection Assignment

Running head: BARBARA’S PROJECT PLANNING FOR UCCO 1

BARBARA’S PROJECT PLANNING FOR UCCO 5

Project Planning-Module 1

Keri King

11/23/2020

Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is the way to record and lead a business by examining where it is currently and where it's going. Goals, visions, long-term priorities, and action plans are documented to utilize this strategic plan. Strategic planning of health institutions requires outlining the necessary strategies to accomplish those priorities. Although various styles and levels of strategy are possible, the goal of all strategies is to coordinate an organization's activities and its specified purpose or principles (Neis et al., 2017). Healthcare providers now need more patient-centered, value-added approaches, as many of their established systems adopt more conservative, older strategic models.

What Healthcare Can Achieve With Strategic Planning

Collaboration and cooperation among teams are increased. To enhance effectiveness and service, teamwork is critical for every healthcare sector. A very well-executed strategic plan could improve teamwork, improve organizational responsibility, and increase productivity (Tzu, 2018). Effective healthcare strategy models can bring your workers together and provide high-qualities health care, outstanding service, and effectiveness.

It improves communication within the organization. Successful health planning will help clarify and enhance communications. You should tackle the organization's main problems, mission, and objectives and the steps for achieving them should be communicated (Vermeulen et al., 2019). The trust and confidence in the organization will benefit your staff and shareholders. Lack of proper communications can lead to role crashing and confusion among healthcare workers.

It increases employee's engagement and morale. Strategic planning shows where the organization is going. Workers are dedicated and empowered to help you fulfill your goal. Stakeholders will be confident and clear in making sound financial decisions (Tzu, 2018). Strategic preparation for specifically defined, implemented, and communicated healthcare facilities will allow stakeholders to create a direction that will lead to a prosperous future.

It can lead to transformational leadership and authority. Transformative leadership is a kind of direction that encourages the staff to work harder and to do better. It contains methods referenced in research on organizational behavior. Transformation managers openly articulate the mission and their companies' capacity to deliver high results and believe their workers (Vermeulen et al., 2019). It's a vital aspect of strategic management to make the staff realize how their positions will relate to their mission and vision.

Recommended Area of Focus for Barbara's Plan

Good strategic planning should provide a mission, vision, and goals. However, influential organizations have had such a strategic plan, which fails in the course of implementation. To avoid such a turn of events, Barbara should operationalize her project to include daily goals (Vermeulen et al., 2019). This involves identifying the initiatives for executing the strategy in line with the work-shop framework covering all programs relevant to the plan's priorities and important initiatives under those programs.

Achieving a Balance of Historical and Current Topic in Healthcare

Historical topics in healthcare are entirely different from contemporary ones. The recognition and processing of meaningful data to measure how an organization performs in achieving its strategic priorities and harmonizing existing working procedures with this approach have become one of the medical sector's historical concerns. In her strategic plan, Barbara can blend the current topic with historical topics relevant in the contemporary world. For example, the need to provide quality patient care has been a historical topic that is still a concern today. Currently, we have emerging technologies in the healthcare market. Barbara can include such technologies to implement the provision of quality healthcare. For example, according to Chen & Decary (2020) use of electronic medical records and block chain technology can speed up the provision of care and visualize diagnostic and treatment trends, which can be used to provide care efficiently and effectively.

Primary and Secondary Research for Barbara

For primary research, she can benefit from experts' advice on how to plan strategically. To achieve this, she can conduct a face to face or phone interview, which will provide helpful insights for a rational strategic plan (Leskaj, 2017). She will benefit from having information that is relevant and up to date with the current trends. For secondary data, she can opt to use compiled research reports and publications on strategic planning. She will benefits from having essential information within a short time (Leskaj, 2017). Finally, if she uses secondary data published by government agencies, she will access it at no cost.

In conclusion, I would deduce that it is unnecessary to lay out the strategic goals to encourage the organization to understand the plan alone. To do this is not to prepare, but rather to cross the fingers and wish for the best. The endless instances of the inability to execute the plan led to all of us have been shown or read. Since optimism is not a tactic, companies must buckle their security loops and abandon comfort zones when mastering success or encounter the hard truth of not delivering on their plans.

References

Chen, M., & Decary, M. (2020, January). Artificial intelligence in healthcare: An essential guide for health leaders. In Healthcare Management Forum (Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 10-18). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.

Leskaj, E. (2017). The challenges faced by the strategic management of public organizations. Revista» Administratie si Management Public « (RAMP), (29), 151-161.

Neis, D. F., Pereira, M. F., & Maccari, E. A. (2017). Strategic planning process and organizational structure: Impacts, confluence and similarities. BBR. Brazilian Business Review, 14(5), 479-492.

Tzu, S. (2018). STRATEGIES AND OPERATIONAL PLANS. Strategic Planning in Healthcare: An Introduction for Health Professionals, 95.

Vermeulen, L. C., Eddington, N. D., Gourdine, M. A., Jorgenson, J., Kvancz, D. A., Nesbit, S. A., ... & Peters, S. G. (2019). ASHP foundation pharmacy forecast 2019: strategic planning advice for pharmacy departments in hospitals and health systems. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 76(2), 71-100.