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HCA 421 Course Begins Success / hca421dotcom

For more course tutorials visit<br>www.hca421.com<br>HCA 421 Week 1 DQ 1 (Basic Strategy)<br>HCA 421 Week 1 DQ 2 (Internal Audit of Strategic Assets)<br>HCA 421 Week 2 Assignment Competition in Healthcare<br>HCA 421 Week 2 DQ 1 (Strategic External Assessment Industry and Competition)<br>HCA 421 Week 2 DQ 2 (Market Segments)<br>

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HCA 421 Course Begins Success / hca421dotcom

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  1. HCA 421 Course Begins Success / hca421.com For More Tutorials www.hca421.com

  2. HCA 421 Course Begins Success / hca421.com • HCA 421 Week 1 DQ 1 (Basic Strategy) • HCA 421 Week 1 DQ 2 (Internal Audit of Strategic Assets) • HCA 421 Week 2 Assignment Competition in Healthcare • HCA 421 Week 2 DQ 1 (Strategic External Assessment Industry and Competition) • Basic Strategy; Describe the key dimensions of an organizational strategy as well as how they would, or would not, be relevant to the "strategic mindset" or the ability to think "strategically" of an organization's management. Do you think these are learned or innate traits? HCA 421 Entire Course HCA 421 Week 1 DQ 1 (Basic Strategy)

  3. HCA 421 Course Begins Success / hca421.com • Internal Audit of Strategic Assets; Compare and contrast strategic "resources" and "competencies" and identify what role (if any) licensed health care providers in an organization play in the competitive advantage of a health care organization. • One of the trends marking the continuing transformation of the U.S. health care industry is the dramatic increase in the pace of competition. The heightened competition is taking place among hospitals, among health plans, among physician groups, among drug companies, between physicians and hospitals, and between hospitals and health plans. HCA 421 Week 1 DQ 2 (Internal Audit of Strategic Assets) HCA 421 Week 2 Assignment Competition in Healthcare

  4. HCA 421 Course Begins Success / hca421.com • Discussion 1 Strategic External Assessment: Industry and Competition; Describe Michael Porter's Five Forces Model. What does he attempt to explain? How might the forces function and affect industry profits? • Discussion 2 Market Segments; If the movement toward "consumer-driven health care" continues to advance, speculate on how a health care organization may want to improve the way that it assesses and interacts with its market and customers, including providing health services and programs to meet the needs of a diverse HCA 421 Week 2 DQ 1 (Strategic External Assessment Industry and Competition) HCA 421 Week 2 DQ 2 (Market Segments)

  5. HCA 421 Course Begins Success / hca421.com • In a three- to five-page paper: • a. Describe a minimum of five challenges from the list below that are defining the future strategic direction of health care. • Proposed health care reform and legislation • Information technology advancements including the electronic medical, or health, record (EMR/EHR) • Profits and Revenues; Explain the four fundamental ways in which a business can grow its revenues and profits. Then, describe the five generic types of growth strategy available to individual SBUs. Hypothesize what metrics a program executive might use to monitor these strategies. HCA 421 Week 3 Assignment The Future Direction of Health Care (Five challenges) HCA 421 Week 3 DQ 1 (Profits and Revenues)

  6. HCA 421 Course Begins Success / hca421.com • Organizational Mission: Explain, in your own words, the terms "mission," "vision," "goals," and "values" statements. What is the practical purpose of a statement of organizational values? Under what circumstances should an organization consider changing these - if at all? • Explore the role of communication in the strategic and program planning processes in a health care organization. Consider the topics discussed (both in the text and in the discussions) thus far and clearly integrate at least five of them into your presentation HCA 421 Week 3 DQ 2 (Organizational Mission) HCA 421 Week 4 Assignment Communication in the Planning Process

  7. HCA 421 Course Begins Success / hca421.com • Implementing Strategy • Discuss which is more important - the formulation of a strategy or its implementation - as well as the tribulations associated with your choice. Respond to at least two of your classmates' postings. • For your Research Paper, you will choose one of the health care organizations listed below and conduct an analysis of their strategic planning and evaluation of the organization in an eight- to- ten (excluding title and reference page) paper. HCA 421 Week 4 DQ 1 (Implementing Strategy) HCA 421 Week 5 Assignment (Research Paper) Strategic planning and evaluation of the organization (Mayo Clinic)

  8. HCA 421 Course Begins Success / hca421.com • Describe the four primary purposes of a professional strategic financial management function in an organization. Further elaborate on how reimbursement, supply and demand, contractual adjustments, patient mix, regulatory legislation etc. • Five weeks and the information read and discussed. Present to the class a topic that has not been covered in class that you find important to the course material, one that applies to you professionally, or one that is perplexing to you for further exploration. HCA 421 Week 5 DQ 1 HCA 421 Week 5 DQ 2

  9. HCA 421 Course Begins Success / hca421.com For More Tutorials www.hca421.com

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