The proper purchasing of services has always been one of the major concerns of health insurance. Inattention to the optimum purchase of services has led to serious problems for health systems. Traditional (passive) purchasing has some weaknesses because of problems such as low efficiency in the health system, no targeted resources, low cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness indicators and poor jus...

a number of theories about the hest method of allocating assets have been developed over the years, managers are concernd about allocating scarce resources, mainly capital, in most productive way. managers want to ensure that the return from the invested resources exceeds the cost of resources finanical theories and finanicial strategies try to facilitate creating optimum value for investors in...

Strategic alliance represents an important business activity for firms to access desirable resources and to enhance their competitive advantages. An important task concerning strategic alliance is alliance formation prediction, which can help a firm anticipate possible alliance actions of its rivals and accordingly develop strategies to prevent their partnering opportunities or neutralize the a...

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...

In order to address major changes in the operational environment, companies can (i) define scenarios that characterize different alternatives for this environment, (ii) assign probabilities to these scenarios, (iii) evaluate the performance of strategic actions across the scenarios, and (iv) choose those actions that are expected to perform best. In this paper, we develop a portfolio model to s...

As practitioners and industries become more comfortable with the use of social media applications as a marketing tool, social media is becoming ubiquitous. However, social media must be managed just like the rest of media that organizations use to deploy their content and marketing strategy as part of their overall marketing strategy. Nevertheless, scholar research on social media marketing str...

one of the main areas of human resource strategy, implementing strategic approach to human resource management and human resource strategy. the purpose of the strategic actions of those activities for innovative human resources programs is to create a close relationship between human resources with strategic objectives designed. the purpose of the strategic view of human resource management is ...