Health & Medical Question

In a piece of sentinel research Hambrick (1982) tested empirically the relationships between the environmental scanning activities of upper-level executives and their organizations’ strategic decision-making based on the premise that the scanning activity would support their strategic plans. The findings reflected that there were differences in the strategy–scanning link between the three industries studied and that the “differences may have been attributable to different dominant environmental requirements existing in each industry” (Hambrick, 1982, pg.159). More recently, another group of researchers discussed the merits of environmental scanning relating to strategic analysis for public hospital care with findings reflecting that scanning is essential to identify political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors impacting strategic planning (Pourmohammadi et al, 2020).

Each of these areas should be reflected in the organizational environmental scan and SWOT analysis if the goal is to comprehensively analyze the setting of care delivery and the community needs.

It has been implied that testing and validating of the scanning information is necessary to inform a strategic decision-making. What factors (listed above) would you think might be most important or essential to scan for the acute care hospital system within the current climate for healthcare delivery? Offer rationale for your opinion here.

Provide in-text citations from no fewer than 3 scholarly sources for each reply to support your perspective on this issue.

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