It is worrying that for 2016-17, Health Education England's (HEE) funding for continuing professional development has suffered significant cuts of up to 45%, with little discussion about strategic plans for CPD at a national level.

The importance of individual actors in business-to-business relationships has been widely acknowledged. Commonly these are referred to in a process-like manner related to division of work in organisational buying, or they are seen as carriers of values and interactions. In marketing, they are rarely described as representatives of various organisational levels. The purpose of the paper is to di...

The track record of success in bringing about strategic change within organisations is poor. Many simply fail to grasp that it is implementation (that is, actually turning plans into reality) rather than formulation that is the hard part. For strategic intent to become reality, it is necessary to change the way in which individuals within an organisation behave. This requires more than restruct...

This paper discusses the roles and functions of strategic planning of information systems in health services. It selects four specialised methodologies of strategic planning for analysis with respect to their applicability in the health field. It then examines the utilisation of information planning in case studies of three health organisations (two State departments of health and community ser...

Daily challenges for occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants are changing work environments and the desire to address the needs of their clients. This article highlights the need for occupational therapy practitioners to create personal strategic plans to prepare for their rapidly changing futures. Although AOTA's Centennial Vision responds to the profession's future, practi...

In the current practice of industrial research and development (R&D) management tools are playing an increasing important role. The growing need for alignment of R&D with business objectives, market-driven strategies and investment risk reduction are the drivers for employing portfolio management techniques. This paper proposes use of a financial portfolio management approach as a tool enabling...

Strategic Information management in hospitals gives directives for the development of the hospital's information system. This paper discusses the specific situation of strategic information management for a university hospital that is subject to the Dutch healthcare environment. Central issues for the discussion are the involved internal and external stakeholders that have some direct or indire...

This paper examines connections between data-driven models for analyzing a firm's strategic plans, which use activity-based costing and mathematical programming, and the resource-based view of the firm. After brief reviews of the three disciplines, extensions of activity-based costing methods to mathematical programming models for strategic resource planning are discussed. Applications of these...

Background The Ministry of Health (MOH) of Mozambique became a People that Deliver (PtD) focus country in 2011. Soon after the PtD Conference in 2011, the MOH re-ignited the development of a Strategic Plan for Pharmaceutical Logistics and decided to make reform of Human Resources for the Supply Chain (HR for SC) a key pillar of the plan, as well as a component of the Health Sector Strategic Pla...