Purdue Global University Adventist Health White Memorial Case Study

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Choose an award-winning company from the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program website to study. You will evaluate the “Award Application Summary” as a business case. You are the director of strategy and business Intelligence for your chosen company. You are conducting an evaluation of your chosen company for an upcoming annual report. Your goal is to demonstrate skill and expertise in strategic analysis of the strategic position of your company. You will be submitting this report to the other C-level executives for consideration. Use the following criteria to make strategic decisions for your chosen award-winning organization.

Assignment Part 1 Requirements:

Provide background information about your chosen company, including the company name, industry sector in which the company operates, products, and target market. Elaborate and use research.

Introduce the concept of strategic analysis based on Figure 3.1 (read pages 49–50 in your textbook).

Explain how the strategic analysis tools found in Chapter 3 of your textbook can help your chosen organization build a future-oriented strategy.

Explain the macro-environment, how to analyze the macro-environment, and its importance to strategy development. Use theories, principles, and concepts from various research resources to substantiate your thoughts, opinions, and ideas (read pages 50–53 in your textbook).

Conduct a PESTEL analysis and identify three strategically relevant factors per PESTEL component that may impact the long-term direction of your chosen company, including its strategic vision and mission, objectives, and business model (pages 50–53 in your textbook).

  • After the PESTEL analysis table, explain what strategically relevant factors are most likely to have a higher impact and which are likely to have a lower impact on your chosen company’s situation and business strategy (page 50 in your textbook).
  • Explain the five forces framework and its value in diagnosing the competitive conditions in a company’s industry (pages 53 and 68–69 in your textbook).
  • Conduct an analysis using the five forces framework to diagnose the competitive conditions in your chosen company’s industry.
  • Analyze the rivalry among competing sellers of your chosen company (pages 53–56 in your textbook).
  • Analyze the competitive pressures associated with the threat of new entrants (pages 57–62 in your textbook).

Analyze the factors affecting competition from substitute products (pages 62–64 in your textbook).

  • Analyze the factors affecting the bargaining power of suppliers (pages 64–66 in your textbook).
  • Analyze the factors affecting the power of buyers (pages 66–68 in your textbook).
  • Explain the significance of the SOAR framework for competitor analysis as a strategic analysis tool in your chosen company’s industry (pages 77–79 in your textbook).

Assignment Part 2 Requirements:

  • Explain how the tools for analyzing the internal environment of an organization found in Chapter 4 of your textbook can help your chosen organization to develop a competitive edge over rivals (page 87 in your textbook). Use theories, principles, and concepts from various additional research resources to substantiate your thoughts, opinions, and ideas.
  • Explain the components of a single-business company’s strategy (pages 88–89 in your textbook).
  • Identify three key financial ratios. Explain why they are strategically important and how your chosen company can use them to analyze its current situation for strategic planning purposes (pages 89–91 in your textbook).
  • Explain the value of conducting a SWOT analysis to a company (pages 91–92 in your textbook).
  • Conduct a SWOT analysis on your chosen company. Determine the company’s strengths and weaknesses in relation to the market opportunities and threats (pages 91–95 in your textbook).
  • Explain how the results of a SWOT analysis can be turned into strategic actions (page 95 in your textbook).

Explain how value chain activities impact a company’s cost structure and customer value proposition (pages 102–112 in your textbook).

Explain how your chosen company’s resources and capabilities give it a competitive edge over rivals (pages 96–112 in your textbook).

Explain what strategic issues and problems merit front-burner managerial attention for your chosen company (page 115 in your textbook).

  • Analyze the results of your strategic analyses and explain your chosen company’s competitive situation and how this information can assist managers in making critical decisions about their next strategic moves

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Adventist Health White Memorial

Student Full Name
Institutional Affiliation
Instructor Full Name
Course Full Title
Due Date

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Adventist Health White Memorial
Assignment Part One
In 2017, the Baldrige Performance Excellence Award went to Adventist Health Castle in
Kailua, Hawaii. It was a sort of health industry where businesses provided a wide range of highquality health services. Being a recipient of the honor indicates a corporation excels at what it
does. Treatment for respiratory problems, maternity facilities, emergency initiatives, ear, nose,
and throat, pharmacist, diabetic medicines, diagnostic facilities, and many other treatments are
available. Anybody can receive treatment in a hospital. Youngsters, the elderly, the disabled, and
expecting mothers can all benefit from the services, as can anybody with a medical condition.
The healthcare services are available to everybody on the territory of O'ahu, regardless of where
they live.
Strategic planning is essential for any organization because it establishes guidance and
enables the business to stay on track to meet its objectives. A strategy is the set of core tenets that
result inside the intended decision-making behavior when articulated and implemented in the
company. Companies pursuing this approach must demonstrate to their customers that they have
been superior to their competitors. A company's organization, advantages, limitations, market,
competition, and business climate must get considered while creating a business plan.
A comprehensive analysis of a firm's external (world, rivals) and internal (solid competencies
and capabilities) environments provide the management with a comprehensive view of whatever
they have to work with or what needs addressing when establishing a strategy for its growth
(Christopher, Khong, & Abolfazli, 2020). So because knowledge management obtains from the
assessment impacts the decision-making process, the analysis generally begins in the
management planning. The data is crucial for business people developing business strategies

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(before the company even starts) to figure out if their proposed business is viable and how to
structure their company concerning the existing competition or prospective customers to
maintain the competitive advantage.
Consider the Adventist Health White Memorial as an example of how success factors can
help inform decisions. Consider if you're the organization's founder and you intended to start a
new business with the motive of achieving customers' happiness in the twenty-first century.
What kind of items and services do you want to provide? According to PESTEL research,
technology is an essential aspect of entertainment, and sociocultural trends include people's
choices predilection for on-demand entertainment since it is simple and fits into their hectic
schedules.
Adventist Health's stated mission covers a wide range of services (and they're planning
for the future!), The tools can help the organization determine where to begin when beginning a
long-term project. Besides, it will play a crucial role in writing a script for a mission's facility or
develop a technique to provide medical care in a particular area. The tools will also help the
company identify its potential competitors, including their insights.
A macro environment comprises conditions across the industrial world in general instead
of in a specific industry or location. The macro-environment is part of the macro environment,
trends in the gross national product, hyperinflation, jobs, spending, and monetary and fiscal
policy. The PEST (political, economic, social, and technological) assessment is one way of
analyzing macro developments. PEST analysis variations include different subcategories for the
legal and environmental settings and are referred to by abbreviations like STEEP or PESTEL.
Inside every section, identify the significant events and trends to understand the macro
environments. What role have individuals played? What is the fluctuation? What influence do

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they have on the company (bad, favorable, or neutral)? Please provide evidence. Recognize how
the different tendencies interact with one another. Determine which trends are most likely to
affect the company's most considerable effect. Forecast where all these trends will go in the
future, using various predictions or scenarios. Determine the ramifications, concentrating on
industry structural dynamics which will impact future strategy.
The value of macro-environmental assessment in strategy development is that it aids
companies in recognizing key trends and their ramifications in the future. According to the
architecture of the analytic tools used to view the macro environment, businesses are responsive
to their surroundings. Certain companies can significantly impact their surroundings and be
difference makers (Imam & Liu, 2020). The group or organizational level to distinct macroenvironmental issues and how they are...


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