ICT and Resource Based Approach in Creating Core Competencies in Public Health

The resource based view is an approach which emphasizes the organizations resources and capabilities in its strategy development. The approach has been applied mostly in the competitive private sector but it includes several important lessons which can be used also in the public sector which is struggling with resource problems. The public sector has to find those internal and also external resources which are most essential in its attempt to provide a high quality service to the public. This article will apply the resource based approach to public health care ICT strategic management. From several important resources, four are selected for closer study. Their effects on each other and on two other essential but still very often ignored resources in health care IS strategic management will be discussed. The assumption of this study is that those two resources will have a central but partly unexplored strategic impact on other resources and that their share of numerous other resources as well as the views of resource based approach in public health care strategic management will increase substantially. The paper connects the theory and earlier research on the resource based approach to experiences of empirical research cases.