Strategic Alignment: Managing Integrated Health Systems - Tapa blanda

Alliances now shaping healthcare delivery are complex and diverse and require organizational change. The 13 cases in this volume examine vertical integration and managed care as forms of strategic alignment and capture the range of significant choices for health services organizations.
Four steps of the strategic adaptation process are explored: environmental assessment, strategy making, building and managing systems and structures, and implementation. The cases also cover the internal requirements for successful vertical integration and show how organizations collaborate to enhance both individual competencies and their competitive positions.
Strategic Alignment is an important and useful casebook for today's changing healthcare environment.