title: Strategic plan needs focus, structure to aid vision.
abstract: Having a strategic vision for a hospital is of no use unless it is supported by a focused plan and a management ready to make it work. But, there are generic factors that impede the success of strategic change, barriers that can be lessened, if not eliminated, with structure. In the following article, the author describes the ingredients necessary to turn strategic vision into practice.
authors: Widener University, Chester, PA.
authors: A D
authors: AD
authors: Bender
mesh_terms: D006752:Hospital Planning; D008722:Methods; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States