Please help with this assignment. Please strictly follow the attached rubric and address each topic.
HCM 415 Alternative Strategic Plan Short Paper Guidelines and Rubric
In the Module Two journal, you discussed external forces that could impact an organization’s strategic plan. After reflecting on your Module Two journal assignment, discuss why developing alternative strategic plans is important in order to meet the policy changes in the healthcare environment. In your paper, address the following:
Explain the need for developing strategic alternatives and why strategic alternatives are important for a successful organization. Use scholarly and peerreviewed sources to support your explanation.
Examine industry policy changes and the need to develop a flexible strategic plan, specifically, how the source of the policy (such as federal mandated changes, industry best practices, or state requirements) impacts the need to develop a flexible strategic plan. Use appropriate sources to support your claims.
Make strategic alternative recommendations for the healthcare organization in your case study. Be sure these recommendations address the specific policy issue changes faced by the healthcare organization.
Guidelines for Submission: This short paper should be in APA format and consist of 1–2 pages, not including the title and reference page.
| Critical Element | Exemplary (100%) | Proficient (90%) | Needs Improvement (75%) | Not Evident (0%) | Value |
| Strategic Alternatives | Meets “Proficient” criteria and adeptly utilizes sources to explain why strategic alternatives are important for a successful organization | Explains the need for developing strategic alternatives and why strategic alternatives are important for a successful organization, using scholarly and peer-reviewed sources | Explains the need for developing strategic alternatives and why strategic alternatives are important for a successful organization, using sources, but the explanation is illogical or cursory or sources are not scholarly or peerreviewed | Does not explain the need for developing strategic alternatives and why strategic alternatives are important for a successful organization | 30 |
| Flexible Strategic Plan | Meets “Proficient” criteria and makes sophisticated connections between sources of policy changes and the strategic plan | Examines industry policy changes and the need to develop a flexible strategic plan. Specifically addresses how federal mandates, industry best practices, or state requirements impact the need to develop a flexible strategic plan | Examines industry policy changes and the need to develop a flexible strategic plan, but does not specifically address how federal mandates, industry best practices, or state requirements impact the need to develop a flexible strategic plan | Does not examine industry policy changes and the need to develop a flexible strategic plan | 30 |
| Recommendations | Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates a sophisticated awareness of the connection between the strategic alternative and the healthcare organization’s issue | Makes strategic alternative recommendations for the healthcare organization in your case study that address the specific policy issue changes faced by the healthcare organization | Makes strategic alternative recommendations for the healthcare organization in your case study that address the specific policy issue changes faced by the healthcare organization, but recommendations are illogical, cursory, or not relevant to the healthcare organization’s situation | Does not make strategic alternative recommendations for the healthcare organization in your case study | 30 |
| Articulation of Response | Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format | Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization | Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas | Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas | 10 |
| Total | 100% |
