Please answer the question below (and any parts, if applicable) in at least 500 of your own words and thoughts. Please use terms as related to the current course:

Strategic Planning and Execution in Healthcare

1. Why do health care senior executives use the SWOT analysis as the foundation for strategic planning? Explain

a) How can these health care leaders use 'force-field analysis' to implement proper change and growth in an organization? Explain

b) Why do these health care executives default to using 'gap-analysis' as the first method to implement change? Explain

c) Explain the negative and positive side effects of a hospital's strategic plan on downstream revenue.

References:

Anderson, D. G., Jo Potter, M., & Morris, D. E. (2018).

Improving Performance and Enhancing Innovation With Venture Investing: Perspectives From Leading Health Systems. Hfm (Healthcare Financial Management), 110.

Bluth, M. H. (2020).

What we should learn from our experience with the coronavirus. Hfm (Healthcare Financial Management), 74(6), 6465.

Harrison, J. P. (2016).

Essentials of strategic planning in healthcare (2nd ed.). Health Administration Press.