Please check the questions and instruction and make sure you understand the requirements before you send a proposal. Textbook: Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations Eighth Edition Peter M

Additional readings for the assignment, NO outside source please

  • Chapters 6 & 7

Attached Files:

    •  Strategy Development Part 1.mp3 (14.385 MB)

This lecture presents Corporate Strategies.  Read the following articles from The New York Times, found at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/business/bigger-hospitals-may-lead-to-bigger-bills-for-patients.html?hp  and

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/business/economy/health-law-goals-face-antitrust-hurdles.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=business&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Business%20Day&pgtype=article (for this article cut and paste into your browser)

Strategy Selection Process Part II Chapters 6 & 7

Attached Files:

    •  Strategy Development Part 2.mp3 (9.53 MB)


Second Part that describes SBU and Operational Unit Strategies.

For chapter 7, read pages 245-252, 264 to the top 0f 269, 274-287


Value Adding Service Delivery Strategies - Porter's Values Base Competition


Attached Files:



    •  Value Based Competition Part One.mp3 (8.229 MB)


    •  Value Based Competition Part Two.mp3 (12.342 MB


Read Chapter 8 in the text and spend a few extra moments on Value Based Competition, which appears in the text. This is an important new approach to competition and strategy in health care, one that is gain momentum in the field.  Please read the articles identified on the syllabus as Porter 2 & 3.  You can access the articles from the library, do a Google search or purchase them from the Harvard Business School the digital copy is only $3.



View one or both of these videos on Youtube 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXecsdrQ-YI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRkhppxZzL0




Value Added Support Strategies


 After you read Chapter 9, please view the following You Tube videos on the Culture of the Organization:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuwZLU5hITY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiFMJfrCO_0