A. Based on what you have learned so far this term, do you think that healthcare organizations tend to give serious consideration to identifying competing alternatives? How so?
1. Do you believe that ACOs represent a vertical or horizontal form of integration for healthcare organizations?
2. Why would healthcare organizations and providers be interested in the development of an ACO? Consider different types of organizations and solo providers such as physicians.
3. Based on what we have learned in chapter 6 of the text and today’s healthcare environment, what opportunities are opened up through ACO’s? What challenges might healthcare organizations face?
4. Let’s now turn to different types and combinations of strategies. Review Exhibit 6-8 in your text. Organizations often pursue more than one strategy. What are some logical combinations of strategies, and how might they be linked together (e.g. a retrenchment and penetration strategy)? How might a combination of strategies advance the organization’s vision or mission?
TEXTBOOK: Ginter, P. M., Duncan, J. W., & Swayne, L. E. (2018). The Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations (8th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
