Strategic Planning For The Michigan Department Of Human Services

Department of Human Services (DHS) is a human service organization meant to help individuals and families with temporary services in their time of need. The mission statement is: “Improving the quality of life in Michigan by providing services to vulnerable children and adults that will strengthen the community and enable families and individuals to move toward independence.” (Michigan.gov) DHS provides an array of services to individuals and families, these include: food assistance, cash assistance, health care assistance, children services, adult services, and many more.

A strategic plan is a tool that delivers guidance in achieving a mission or goal with maximum proficiency and control for an organization. Strategic planning is used to transform and revitalize organizations. The plan helps provide an inclusive understanding of opportunities and challenges both internally and externally for the organization. The plan delivers an assessment of the strengths and limitations that are realistic within the company. A well-developed strategic plan will offer a comprehensive approach and empowerment for the stakeholders involved. It is an opportunity for learning and understanding priorities that will drive the business to succeed. Jones (2010), describes how in health care organizations, strategic plans

There must be a strategic plan in place to achieve a successful program, and that requires the use of the SWOT Analysis model. (Shi & Johnson, 2012). By determining the strength, the weakness, the opportunity, and the threats of a program, there is a chance that the organization’s strategic planning remains sustainable (Shi et al., 2012). Also, each area of a well develop SWOT analysis (See Appendix A) must be able to complement one another. For example, based on the SWOT result, the organizational strength is that the stakeholders are engaging, motivated, and well experience in the subject of colorectal cancer screening; therefore, these abilities will help overcome the threats of failing to persuade the communities of the importance of such

identified objectives which align with their mission and vision. A SWOT analysis is essential to

Strategic Planning is an essential first step in the development of a result-base accountability system,” (Schilder, 2013, p. 1). In strategic planning an organization must know their goals, missions, and how to reach them. Health care facilities are in huge demand for the elderly and for people who lives in low-income communities. A person who receives good quality health care services can prevent the spread of contagious diseases. This paper will describe the need of the community, population it is serving, and a brief description of the facility.

The ever-changing environment in healthcare requires strategic planning teams to address a handful of specific critical issues that will lead to success in the long term. In an industry as diverse and large as health care, Scripps Mercy will face many challenges but will need to avoid the temptation during the environmental assessment phase of its strategic plan. Zuckerman (2012) states, "Failure to produce a limited number of issues to address in subsequent planning activities almost always dooms the strategic planning process" (p. 43), too often healthcare is riddled with issues; an effective environmental assessment will condense these concerns in a solid and clear way. All the new upcoming changes in healthcare reform and technology will have Scripps Mercy face many challenges in information management, their demographic served, and staff recruitment and development.

Additionally, the question format allows individual NYS agencies to brainstorm their scope, context, work, demand, supply, gaps, priorities, and solutions. The guide then walked readers through each of the planning steps. The guide suggested that the scope chosen should make a significant difference in the agency’s or program’s results (“Our Workforce Matters”, 2001). I agree with this statement because an organization could have numerous issues, but it is important to differentiae which issues are more urgent and detrimental to the overall success of the organization. The guide explains that the outcome of context is to have a clear idea of where the agency is headed and to understand the impact of external factors on their planning scope. The context section included several questions that agencies can ask themselves to determine their context. One of the questions included – What direction is your agency taking? Answering this question is essential since a clear direction will incorporate an organization’s mission, vision, and values. According to Don Brecken (2004), the direction will transform an organization from its present state to a more meaningful future state. The mission will explain why the organization exists. Cochran et al. (2008) defined the mission statement as an enduring document of purpose

Without strategic planning, several things can go wrong including missing out on great opportunities. Strategic planning is an organization’s outline to help achieve its purpose. Although strategic planning begins at the top of the pyramid, it is more effective when it is carry out as a whole among other in the organization. Having a good internal control system in place protects an organization from high risk, fraud, and more. Jackson Memorial Hospital has several weaknesses which are similar to its competitors and other health care organizations. For instance, Mount Sinai Medical Center one of Jackson Memorial’s competitors, encountered lack of strategic planning that led to many issues such as with readmissions, surgical complications,

This paper seeks to review the five phases and other key elements and outcome expectations with the purpose of providing clarity to the organizational focus. It then demonstrates some of the implications and accomplishments

An organization such as the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS) is established to help Oregon hospitals understand how to best serve their unique communities, while continuing to reach state-wide goals. OAHHS currently has a primary goal of helping Oregon hospitals to reach the Triple Aim determined by healthcare reform: improving the quality of patient care and population health, while reducing the per capita costs. This type of organization completes ongoing analyses of their business, on a regular basis to ensure that they are communicating the most up-to-date information to the hospitals of their state. A SWOT analysis is one type on analysis that can help them to determine internal and external factors, including environmental and marketing challenges that may need addressed.

This strategic management case study plan for Cardinal Health Inc. was developed by the student using course learning resources, outside sources, and other relevant miscellaneous data and facts. The materials

Strategic Planning: Due to the current issues, both internally and externally, the organization is facing, Dr. Townsend is challenged to prepare an action plan to implement the proposed strategy needed to restore the organization back to financial health and improve the morale among the physicians and support staff. Another course of planning Dr. Townsend will challenge is the organizations old structure into a way that all patients will be satisfied.

In business there are strategies that need to be fulfilled. Starting a business or health care organization we need to use strategy planning. In the strategy planning of our business or health care organization we need to map out the mission, vision and goals that we want our business or health care organization to meet. My paper is going to be on the Veterans Health Administration strategy planning. This paper will review their internal and external assessments, competitive marketing analysis, identification of stakeholders, an overview and assessments of services provided, competencies and

Environmental analysis should, in theory, be part of a health organization 's strategic planning process. Case studies of Wow Hospital (WH) facilities, a community hospital are presented to determine empirically how environmental analysis was actually incorporated into the strategic planning process. It is

This report is on developing organizational vision and strategic direction. For this purpose a healthcare organization is taken for analyzing the given learning outcomes of the assignment. The first section of this report assesses the development of an organizational vision involving environmental assessment and stakeholders. Second section of this report will discuss about communication of the vision so developed to the stakeholders and finally the last section of this report makes an assessment of the implementation of the organizational vision and strategic direction.