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

Assignment Questions

Text Book: Strategic Management of Health care Organizations Eighth Edition Peter M. Ginter, W. Jack Duncan, Linda E Swayne

Please do them separate according to the numbering (1, 2, 3). Three separate reference page.

1. Based upon you reading from the text, submit at least two paragraphs, no more than an essay that defines the Product Life Cycle (PLC). As you explain the PLC be sure to include both its strengths and weaknesses. Why is this useful when an organization considers adaptive strategies?  Do not go to any outside sources - stick to the text.  

1. The textbook does not address this issue. Please find the following article from the September 2004 Harvard Business Review,, "Diversity as Strategy," by David Thomas.  This article describes how IBM created a process to recruit and retain customer from diverse groups.  IBM wants to "uncover and understand differences among the groups and find ways to appeal to a broader set of employees and customers."

Strategy is developed so organizations can recruit and retain customers.  Keep this in mind as you read this article.

Your assignment is to write an essay (four paragraphs) that summarizes the key concepts from this article, and to suggest how these concepts are applicable to health care organizations.  

1. In addition to your assigned reading please view the following You Tube videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nlgmKJEcS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uINIExpJ3I

Define Organizational Culture, and then explain why this concept is so important to an organization's operational effectiveness and an organization's ability to implement strategy.  Your essay should be at least two paragraphs, no more than one (1) page