Week 7

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Week 7 - Assignment: Generate a SWOT Analysis and Strategic Action Planning Model

Instructions

The process of strategic action planning (SAP) uses several steps to arrive at the final

document, which is then communicated to stakeholders and publicized to employees

assuring everyone in your organization has received the action plan. The SAP process

includes (a) identifying issues which you completed in Week 2, (b) composing the draft

strategies to address these issues in Week 3, (c) assembling and meeting with your

committee to review and prioritize the top three issues identified issues you completed in

Week 4. Continuing with the SAP process, in Week 5 you (d) provided your board of trustees

with a report on the financial challenges with the current structure of reimbursement

mechanisms, the top issue to be addressed, and in Week 6, you (e) completed an Issue Brief

for each of the three top issues to be presented at a future board meeting.

The next step in the SAP process is to conduct a SWOT analysis to examine your

organization’s strengths, weaknesses (internal view), opportunities, and threats (external

view). From this examination, organizational goals are identified with strategies and action

steps created to achieve the intended outcomes. In addition, the individual or individuals

who will undertake the action steps are identified and the timeline to accomplish these

activities is set.

In the final step, fiscal resources needed to accomplish the action steps and carry out the

strategies are identified, whether the resources are material or human resources or both, and

in which fiscal year these fiscal resources will be needed. Supporting resources in the form of

marketing materials or data from the research office are identified. Activities within the

strategic action plan come at a cost and must be identified to include in the budget plan.

Every action plan must be assessed during the process and at the end of the process.

Assessment can be measured at intervals within the timeline to determine if a change in

course is needed or additional or different resources are required to accomplish one or more of the action steps in the plan.

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This week, you will conduct an organizational SWOT analysis and create your SAP for the

top issue you have been working on for the last few weeks. Remember, the financial

challenges with reimbursement methods is your top issue to be addressed.

For a review of SWOT and how to put it into a plan, view the OnStrategy video:

Putting your SWOT to work. OnStrategy. https://onstrategyhq.com/resources/video-putting-

your-swot-to-work/

The SWOT analysis of your organization in terms of the financial challenge with

reimbursement mechanisms you have prioritized as the top issue will precede your creation

of the SAP. A SWOT template is provided here and can be recreated in Word with tables.

Table 7. SWOT Template

Financial Issue—Reimbursement Methods

INTERNAL EXTERNAL

POSITIVE

Strengths Opportunities

NEGATIVE

Weaknesses Threats

The SAP template here represents a sample one-page plan which you will communicate

organization-wide.

Table 8. SAP Template

STRATEGIC ACTION PLANNING

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…Action Plan Title: Financial Issue—Reimbursement Methods

Goal: Objective:

Desired Outcome of the Action Plan:

Brief Narrative Description of the Action Plan:

Team Members: Submitted by: Date:

Action

Steps/Strategies

What will be

done?

Responsibilities

Who will do it?

Timeline

When will

it be done?

List date

range, (ex.:

July-

December)

Resources Needed

Indicate the type of resource

(materials, equipment, staff), the

budget or funds needed and the

fiscal years for which the funds

are needed

Resource

Type

Amount of

Funds

In which

fiscal

year(s)

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

Step 4:

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Assessment Process: (How will the success of the action plan be measured?)

Supporting Resources Required (e.g., marketing materials from CRM, data from

research office)

Length: A minimum of 5 pages is required for this assignment, not including the title page

and reference page. This assignment requires a title page, the completed SWOT Analysis

template with a summary of your overall findings, the completed two-page SAP template,

with a separate reference page.

References: A minimum of 5 scholarly references are required for this assignment.

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Overdue - September 29 at 11:59 PM

Task: Submit to complete this assignment Assessment

Common Grading

Rubric - 10 Points

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