Healthcare leaders test a proven business strategy

Informatics Competencies for Nursing and Healthcare Leaders

Historically, educational preparation did not address informatics competencies; thus managers, administrators, or executives may not be prepared to use or lead change in the use of health information technologies. A number of resources for informatics competencies exist, however, a comprehensive list addressing the unique knowledge and skills required in the role of a manager or administrator w...

Cultural implications of business strategy-making

The central issue in strategy formulation and implementation process, or strategy-making, is the identification of environmental forces and the preparation of a plan of action to deal with them. This necessitates scanning the environment for gathering information. Environmental scanning should enable the firm to identify these forces. Doing this not only calls for information gathering, but als...

Business strategy and financial reporting readability

Business strategy exerts a considerable impact on complexities, risk and corporate environmental uncertainties as well as the way of providing financial reporting. On this line of argument, therefore, the present study seeks to scrutinize the effect of business strategy on corporate financial reporting readability. In doing so, Fog and Fletch indices are employed to measure financial reporting ...

School and Business It Leaders in Action

A SARS postcard--reflections of two healthcare leaders.

Summarizing our reflections on the past eight weeks is a daunting task. The opportunity to provide leadership for a hospital that has met the challenge of caring for clients with SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) has been unique. It has given us new understanding of system-wide and organizational processes, crisis management, our staff, the true meaning of organizational culture and team...