DISCUSSION
"Strategic Planning and Business Plan" Please respond to the following:
• Ascertain the importance of strategic planning for an organization. Next, suggest one strategy you may use to structure the strategic planning session for a not-for-profit mid-sized health organization that is competing with several for-profit facilities in the area. Then determine your approach to communicate the mission, vision, and value statements for the strategic planning. Provide a rationale for your response.
• Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research articles on business plan creation within health organizations. Next, based on your research and analysis, recommend three best practices of business plan creation and support your response.iscussion
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"Future Developments and Future of Financial Management"
• Reflecting on the various topics discussed throughout the course, describe one concept that will be affected most by the latest developments in health reform.
• Examine at least two specific changes that you anticipate in the role of the health care financial manager over the next decade.
Assignment
Assignment : Post-Merger Analysis
In today's uncertain economic and regulatory environment for the health services industry, many organizations may be presented with merger and acquisition opportunities to gain market share and drive financial and operational efficiencies. Given the current state of this market segment:
Write a five to six page paper in which you:
1. Suggest the key financial drivers that most likely will cause health care organizations to merge. Provide support for your rationale.
2. Assuming that two health care organizations have merged. Determine the evaluation criteria that a financial analyst would use to evaluate the financial performance of the organization post-merger, and identify the determinants that the analyst would use to decide whether or not the merger generated favorable financial results for the organization. Provide support for your evaluation.
3. Determine the key factors that will drive the financial planning process for most organizations in the post-merger phase, and examine the related impact to the organization process. Provide support for your rationale.
4. Create an argument to assert that the financial planning process is of high value to a health care organization. Provide support for your argument.
5. Predict the financial stability of the health care industry over the next five years. Provide support for your prediction.
6. Use at least three quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Evaluate the financial statements and the financial position of health care institutions.
• Describe the overall planning process and the key components of the financial plan.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health financial management.
• Write clearly and concisely about health financial management using proper writing mechanics.
DISCUSSION
Go to Google Trends at google.com/trends and search for one of your favorite brands as well as two or three of its competitors.
• Analyze the trends that you observed with each company. To what could you attribute the increases or decreases in each company's trend(s)?
• What recommendations would you give to the brand managers of your favorite brand to increase the trend line for the future?
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Discussion
"Reflection" Please respond to the following:
• Reflecting on the past ten weeks, specify what you believe are the two most important concepts you have learned in this course. Predict two ways you will be able to apply these concepts to your current job and career in the future.
• Give your opinion on the manner in which this course's learning outcomes contribute to the MBA curriculum. Provide a rationale for your response.