Prior Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance

Prior Proper Planning
Prevents Poor Performance:
The six Ps in the title of this
Discussion, “Prior Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance,” indicate the
value of planning. When healthcare leaders and managers carefully plan their
goals and strategies for the long-term as well as the short-term and involve
the right stakeholders and fully understand their perspectives, this helps the
organization be more strategic in attaining its current and future goals.

To prepare for
this Discussion:
Consider
the role of the healthcare manager or leader in strategic planning in
healthcare settings.
Review
the case study provided in your course text: “The Case of the Warm
Brownies”

write a
comprehensive response to the following:
Using
specific examples and support from the case study provided in your
Learning Resources, describe the main challenges related to strategic
planning in “The Case of the Warm Brownies” and explain why they are
challenges.
Identify
the key stakeholders in the case study. Then, explain the role, if any,
each might take in strategic planning and why.
Explain
the role of a healthcare leader or manager in meeting the needs of the
various stakeholders, as well as meeting the goals of the strategic plan
and organization.

Respond to the bullet
points below in the following ways:
Suggest a
challenge in the healthcare setting that is related to strategic planning.
Suggest another
way a stakeholder might be involved in strategic planning.
Suggest
another way a healthcare manager or leader might address a challenge
related to a stakeholder or challenge.
Suggest any
other example from the Learning Resources.
Your responses should be based, at least in
part, on a reading from this week’s Learning Resources.

Required
Readings:
Course Text: Buchbinder, S.B., Shanks, N.H., & Kite, B.J. (2021). Introduction
to Healthcare Management (4th ed). Jones and
Bartlett Learning.
· Chapter 5, “Strategic Planning” (pp.
99-113)
In
this chapter, you will be introduced to the strategic planning process within
healthcare settings. The author provides insight into the process of
identifying a desired future state for a healthcare organization and planning
as a means to achieve it.
· Case Study “The Case of the Warm Brownies”
(pp. 517-518)
Javanparast, S.,
Freeman, T., Baum, F., Ziersch, A., Mackean, T., Labonte, R., & …
Sanders, D. (n.d). How institutional forces, ideas and actors shaped population
health planning in Australian regional primary health care organisations. BMC
Public Health, 18.

This article features a look at collaborative
healthcare planning for population health programs in Australia. Laureate
Education (Producer) (2014c). Strategic planning [Video file]. Baltimore, MD:
Be sure to
support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources
and additional scholarly sources as appropriate.

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