Strategic planning is a critical part of establishing an organization’s direction. Although strategic planning is utilized throughout the United States Air Force today in various forms, group sessions can become time-consuming without structured planning and a focus on group communication. Computer-supported strategic planning, making effective use of technology, is one way to improve the strat...

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 ...

Research evidence reported to date demonstrates the differential effects of manipulating second language (L2) task conditions on the resultant production as measured in terms of complexity, accuracy, and fluency. The present study was aimed at adding to the available body of findings by exploring the synergistic effects of two task condition variables, namely online planning and immediacy (± He...

Strategic planning has often been viewed as a panacea, a means of addressing and solving all of an organization's issues and problems. Unfortunately, that is not often the case. Strategic planning is merely a tool. And it is only effective when used well. To help you make the most of your planning efforts, Healthcare Executive talked with several healthcare consultants who specialize in healthc...

Strategic preparedness planning is an important new imperative for many hospitals. Strategic preparedness planning goes beyond traditional product/market strategic planning by focusing on disaster prevention, containment, and response roles. Hospitals, because of their unique mission, size, complexity, the types of materials they handle, and the types of patients they encounter, are especially ...

Strategic alignment, combined to strategic planning, is an important management tool. For this reason new approaches to strategic alignment promotion could help high-level management decisions and affect the organizational performance. This study of exploratory nature aims to develop an operational model of strategic alignment between business strategies and goals and information technology str...