Putting Patient Needs Or Employee Needs First?

The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) six aims of quality provide an advantageous framework to progress the quality of care in the U.S.A. health care system. IOM developed six aims for improving to provide safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable patient care (Institute of Medicine, 2001). Organizations need to strategically plan to evolve in meeting IOM’s six aims and to remain a financially sound entity. Strategic planning involves defining the future and stipulating the measurement of achievement (Sare & Ogilvie, 2010). The purpose of this paper is to start the initial steps for creating a strategic plan in a healthcare organization, through describing and evaluating an unmet need, considering the mission, vision, and values, providing the background context, vision, strategic goal, and consider the broader issues.

‘Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long term, which achieves advantage in a changing environment through it’

A strategic vision thus points an organization in a particular direction, charts a strategic path for it to follow in preparing for the future, and molds organizational identity. A clearly articulated strategic vision communicates management’s aspirations to stakeholders and helps steer the energies of company personnel in a common direction. For instance, Henry Ford’s vision of a car in every garage had power because it captured the imagination of others, aided internal efforts to mobilize the Ford Motor Company’s resources, and served as a reference point for gauging the merits of the company’s strategic actions.

The vision, mission statement, and the company values help direct the company’s strategic plan. The vision statement provides the direction the company desires to head. By knowing where the organization wants to be in the future the strategic plan will be developed accordingly to the desired outcome. The mission statement tells the potential customers what the organization is all about and creates a snap shot of the organizational values. The strategic plan is formulated to provide the backbone of the mission statement. Finally the organizational values help keep the core values in

Strategic planning is an integral part of guiding an organization toward a particular goal (Bryson, 1984). Strategic plans are constructed upon an organization's mission statement (why the people are here/what the people do), vision statement (what the people want to be) and values statement (what the people believe). Ascension Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing low-cost, quality healthcare to the under-served members of our community that serves as the mission ("We Are Ascension", 2015). The organization focuses on preventative treatment and education to forestall illness and stand ready to treat disease and return patients to health while treating them with respect and dignity. Ascension Health envisions providing readily

According to Meyer, (2010), strategy is the action that company can take to achieve its desired goals. When it comes to a company, thinking can be said to be either long-term or short-term. When translated into action, it is what is called operations or projects. However there are differences between operations and

Strategy is about which product or services should be produced and offered to which markets and which the customer needs and wants are met whilst achieving the objectives of the organization while making a profit – how each business aim to achieve its mission within its selected area of activity.

Strategic planning involves making decisions about the organization’s long-term goals and strategies and how the organization decides to implement their goals (Bateman, Snell, Konopaske, pg. 113). Strategies help organizations to have a clear perspective on how to go about accomplishing the goals they have in place. All organizations have a clear vision of what their mission and purpose as a company is, they know how to fulfill the mission, vision, and purpose and they know how to ensure that they accomplish all their goals. However, the route the organization takes to define these things determines how effective they will be.

The Mission, Vision and Values of a company play a Fundamental role in Strategy Formulation and Strategic planning. We will discuss throughout this assignment, how developing effective mission, vision and values can help shape, develop and guide a firms Strategic choices. They reflect the firm's fundamental core ideology. At the most basic level a mission statement can describe the firms overall purpose for being. It provides an inside to the present business scope and purpose of the firm that is "who we are, what we do, and why we are here". It explains the firm's very reason for existing. It will

In the following task the strategic context and terminology (missions, visions, objectives, goals and core competencies) together with a evaluation of problems involved in strategic planning and different planning methods will be clarified.

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* Strategy exists in the mind of the leader in the form of a vision of the organization’s future.

Strategic intent, a notion pioneered by Hamel and Prahalad (1990) can be considered to be at the heart of a company with a strong, prosperous mind-set. This notion outlines the organisations ambition that creates the mind-set within and pushes all components of the organisation to achieve the goals outlined by management. An organisations strategic intent can be best understood as ‘big, hairy, audacious goals’ (Collins and Porras, 2000, cited in McGee et al, 2010, p30) that define their long-term vision and the small steps that need to be taken in order to achieve this, emphasised by the analogy; ‘a marathon run in 400-meter sprints’ (Hamel and Prahalad, 1990, p43). Companies with a strategic intent that appeared ‘out of proportion to their resources and capabilities’ and therefore shaped the

Johnson, Wittington, Scholes, Angwin and Regnér (2014, p. 3) defines strategy as ‘the long-term direction of an organisation’.

Developing a strategic vision and mission statement, and determining your core values. Vision and mission statements outline the organizations long range direction, describes what the organization does, and defines the values that guide the vision and mission. The vision and mission of an organization should stem from its core values (Fuller & Green, 2005).