Assignment Exercise $17-1$: Capital Expenditure Proposals

Ted Jones, the Surgery Unit Director, is about to choose his strategy for creating a capital expen$-$

diture funding proposal for the coming year. Ted's unit needs more room. The Surgery Unit

is running at over $90\%$ capacity. In addition, a prominent cardiology surgeon on staff at the

hospital wants to create a new cardiac surgery program that would require extensive funding

for more space and for new state$-$of$-$the$-$art equipment. The surgeon has been campaigning with

the hospital board members.

Required

What should Ted decide to ask for? How should he go about crafting a strategy to justify his

request, given the hospital's new scoring system?