Exam 2: Understanding and Analyzing the General Environment and the Health Care Environment

Environmental analysis can accurately foretell the future.

Once strategic management is adopted as the operating philosophy of managing, strategic thinking, strategic planning, and managing the strategic momentum require frequent validation of the strategic assumptions to determine whether issues in the external environment have changed and to what extent.

The Delphi method is an example of which environmental analysis framework:

An example of a question that IS NOT relevant to determining if a health care organization needs environmental analysis is:

Regulations about the privacy of medical records are examples of legislative/political external issues.

The Delphi method is the development, evaluation, and synthesis of individual points of view through the systematic solicitation and collation of individual judgments on a particular topic.

Dialectic inquiry is a "conflict resolution" process of argumentation.

The monitoring function is the tracking of issues identified in the scanning process.

Strategic issues are trends, developments, dilemmas, and possible events that affect an organization and its position within its environment.

What are some of the practical limitations of environmental analysis?

Identify and provide an example of the five segments of the health care system.

The four fundamental processes of environmental analysis are:

Institutions that anticipate and recognize significant external forces and modify their strategies and operations accordingly will prosper.

Comprehensive and well-organized environmental analysis processes will detect all of the changes taking place in the external environment.

Discuss the process of assessing environmental change.

Environmental scanning is perhaps the least important part of environmental analysis.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is:

Increasing automation of basic business processes, clinical information interfaces, data analysis, and telehealth are NOT examples of technological changes.

Effective environmental analysis occurs through strategic thinking.

Forecasting environmental change is a process of extending the trends, developments, dilemmas, and events that the organization is monitoring.