title: Case four. Synergistic strategy development.
abstract: Mercy Medical Center is a 467 bed, not-for-profit teaching hospital affiliated with a multispecialty group practice and health maintenance organization through contractual arrangements. Historically, strategy development was not helping the hospital remain viable while accomplishing its mission. Strategic planning was fragmented, not focused toward concern for balance of the overall product line, total growth of the organization or the best use of resources. The hospital did not involve the affiliated group practice or HMO in its planning. This last case in Chapter One describes the pursuit of synergy through strategy formulation. The case provides a good example of what Kanter describes as a post-entrepreneurial organization, striving for advantage through collaboration and linkage with "PALs."
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mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D016520:Entrepreneurship; D006123:Group Practice / Q000458:organization & administration; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011357:Product Line Management; D015206:Southwestern United States