Preface. Part I: Initiating the Strategic Management Process: 1: The Nature of Strategic Management. 2: Understanding and Analyzing the External Environment. 3: Service Area Competitor Analysis. 4: Internal Environmental Analysis and Competitive Advantage. 5: Directional Strategies. Part II: Strategy Formulation: 6: Developing Strategic Alternatives. 7: Evaluation of Alternatives and Strategic Choice. Part III: Strategic Implementation: 8: Implementing Strategy through Value Adding Service Delivery Strategies. 9: Implementing Strategy through Value Adding Support Strategies. 10: Implementing Strategy through though Unit Action Plans. Part IV: Controlling and Creating the Strategy: 11: Control of the Strategy. 12: Inventing the Future through Strategic Thinking: An ExamplePart V: Appendices: Appendix A: Analyzing Strategic Health Care Cases. Appendix B: Oral Presentations for Health Care Professionals. Part VI: Cases in the Health Care Sector: Case 1: The US Health Care System: Stuart A. Capper. Case 2: AIDSCAP Nepal: Ven Sriram and Franklyn Manu. Case 3: The Indiana State Department of Health: Managing Strategically: Peter M. Ginter, Linda E. Swayne, and W. Jack Duncan. Case 4: Cooper Green Hospital and the Community Care Plan: Alice Adams, Peter M. Ginter, and Linda E. Swayne. Case 5: The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler: Mark J. Kroll and Godwin Osuagwu. Case 6: Calumet Community Hospital: V. Aline Arnold. Case 7: The Indian Health Service: Creating a Climate for Change: Robert Tosatto, Terrie Reeves, W. Jack Duncan, and Peter M. Ginter. Case 8: Midwest: A Managed Health Care System Incorporates a Medical Practice: J. Stuart Bunderson, Shawn M. Lofstrom, and Andrew H. Van de Ven. Case 9: Helicopter Emergency Medical Services at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics: Harry R. Kuniansky and Phil Rutsohn. Case 10: The Rosemont Behavioral Health Center: Phil Rutsohn and Bob Forget. Case 11: HMA and Its Riverview Regional Medical Center Facility: Beth Woodard, Donna J. Slovensky, and Woodrow D. Richardson. Case 12: Dr. Louis Mickael: The Physician as Strategic Manager: C. Louise Sellaro. Case 13: Life Images: 3-D Ultrasound: Martin B. Gerowitz. Case 14: The Veterans Administration Medical Care System: Sharon Topping and Peter M. Ginter. Case 15: Wills Eye Hospital: A Specialty Hospital Survivor: Elizabeth Davis, Steven J. Porth, and Linda E. Swayne. Case 16: C. W. Williams Health Center: A Community Asset: Linda E. Swayne and Peter M. Ginter. Case 17: The Visiting Nurses Association of the Greater Ledgerton Area: Working through the Tightening Web of Health Care Regulation: C. Louise Sellaro and Karen Lazarus. Case 18: The Premier Health Care Alliance Emerges: Linda E. Swayne and Peter M. Ginter. Case 19: MMG: The Integration Journey: Shawn M. Lofstrom, Rhonda Engleman, Russel Rogers, Frank Schultz, and Andrew H. Van de Ven. Case 20: Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word Health Care System: Health Care Mission Plan: Martin B. Gerowitz. Case 21: Building for the Future of Public Health in Alabama: Rueben E. Davidson, III, Stuart A. Capper, and Mahmud Hassan. Case 22: US Health Solutions: Linda E. Swayne. Index.
