Melvin Alexander, Executive Director of Principled Solutions Enterprise, a Management

Multiple Choice

Melvin Alexander, executive director of Principled Solutions Enterprise, a management consulting firm specializing in health care, suggests that environmental changes oblige firms to make strategic changes in order to survive. Which of the following is one of the strategic changes he foresees will occur in the next three to five years?

A) changes in the behavior of the health care consumers
B) reduction in the number of available medical doctors
C) increases in the number of locations of health care facilities
D) decreases in information technology investment