Mission and Vision, Competitive Analysis, Core Competency Analysis, Structural Analysis, Culture and Stakeholder Analysis, Strategic Audit, Situation Analysis, Corporate Level Alternatives, Force Field Analysis, McKinsey 7-S Analysis, and the Balanced Scorecard. By grounding fundamental principles of organization theory and business strategy in experiential learning activities, this course will enhance participants' mastery of core competencies like identifying sources of sustainable competitive advantage, measuring organizational effectiveness, building integrated delivery systems, creating a culture of continuous improvement, and nurturing inter-organizational partnerships. This capstone course integrates students' knowledge of management, marketing, organizational behavior, human resources, finance, accounting, health policy, and economics. Integration is accomplished through the use of cases. This intensive, hands-on course prepares the physician executive to communicate vision, strategy and decisions effectively to all levels of the health care organization and its various stakeholders.
Emphasis is placed on written communication and oral presentation skills.
This course provides an opportunity for the physician executive to explore, enhance, and tune personal and managerial effectiveness through the examination of key organizational dynamics issues. These issues include interpersonal competency, interpersonal influence, management of conflict and hostility, building effective teams, communications, performance management, leadership and organizational change, and the management of personal change. The course uses a mixture of readings, cases, and lectures but heavily employs experiential learning in highly personal settings. All of the course material is presented and explored in ways that foster a personalized interpretation and application. Emphasis is placed on development of applications that are of particularly high personal impact for the executive.