Many common management practices in healthcare organizations, including the practice of strategic planning, have not been subject to widespread assessment through empirical research. If management practice is to be evidence-based, evaluations of such common practices need to be undertaken. The purpose of this research is to provide evidence on the extent of strategic planning practices and the ...

CONTEXT Community-level strategic planning for chronic disease prevention. OBJECTIVE To share the outcomes of the strategic planning process used by Mississippi Delta stakeholders to prevent and reduce the negative impacts of chronic disease in their communities. A key component of strategic planning was participants' use of the Prevention Impacts Simulation Model (PRISM) to project the reduc...

delay in implementation and delivery of projects of general contractors working in oil, gas and petrochemical projects, together with their law profits, are the main reasons for writing this paper. it has been tried in t6he article to present an actual and applied method of decision making to determine strategic goals, strategic planning and its relation with the standards of project management...

purpose: to develop strategic planning for ophthalmology education in iran from 2008 to 2010. methods: a qualitative investigation using focus group discussion was conducted during march, 2008 at the ophthalmic research center of shahid beheshti university. six to ten academic members of the ophthalmology department and other stakeholders participated in this study. strengths, weaknesses, oppor...

The received concept of strategic (game-theoretic) rationality is attended by a formidable list of paradoxes, anomalies, and empirical failures. This paper reviews three well-known and problematic decision contexts and diagnoses as a common source of difficulty the failure in the received view of rationality to adequately recognize risk-return tradeoffs. This diagnosis is then supported by comp...

The lives of the human beings has affected by the information technology in their daytoday lives, because of its progression. The technology has changed vastly, when time passes and so have the chances. The demand of increase in IT/IS has made the top management of the more and more complex and difficult. Strategic information systems planning (SISP) is a real way of emerging and upholding the ...

public participation is counted as one of the main indexes in sustainable urban management.based on their nature, metropolitan cities has several and complex problems. for this purpose tehranmetropolitan area is selected. quantitative strategic planning matrix (qspm) weighted through a made-byresearcherquestionnaire. the reliability of the model was verified by cronbach’s alpha coefficient. eva...

the purpose of this article was to plan development al strategies for sabzevar based on the sustainable development theory. the method of research has been descriptive and most of the data used in the study were secondary (documentations) which were then analyzed using delphi and swot models with a strategic approach. documentation and qualitative research methods such as deep interview and ind...

In order to explore the complexities of developing a strategic marketing plan, this article is written in three parts. The first describes the strategic marketing planning process itself and the key steps within it. It also deals with implementation issues and barriers to marketing planning. The second part provides guidelines for the marketer which will ensure that the input to the marketing p...

This paper develops a new integrated evaluation and planning approach for implementing a given set of best practices in a prioritized and phased manner. The best practices are implemented for achieving lower-level business unit objectives and higher-level strategic goals of an organization. With a multiattribute decision making algorithm under the balanced scorecard (BSC) framework, a new evalu...