Module 1: Discussion: Strategic Management Processes

Side Note: The organization can be Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

Consider your organization or an organization you are familiar with and discuss the steps you would take to analyze the organization to identify potential opportunities to add value to the organization.

Read these assigned articles to better consider and articulate how you would set up the analysis of the organization:

• Strategic Management - Meaning and Important Concepts
• The Five Stages of the Strategic Management Process
• The 5 Most Common Strategy Execution Challenges

Then watch the following videos and share how you would address any missteps you might have analyzing your organization and making recommendations for adding value to the organization:

• The Power of Failure
• Change Your Metric of Success: Why Failure Counts
• Love Your Work

Divide your post into two(2) parts.

Part 1: Consider your organization or an organization you are familiar with and discuss the steps you would take to analyze the organization to identify potential opportunities to add value to the organization. Articulate how you would set up the analysis of the organization, what research you may do, and what tools you may use to examine the organization.

Part 2: How you would address any missteps you might have analyzing your organization and making recommendations for adding value to the organization. What resources would you potentially use to assure that your approach to examining the organization will likely be successful? How will you adapt to potential failures?