Assignment:
Understanding Organizational Capabilities, Capacity, and Competitive Advantage
Unit is dedicated to achieving an understanding of the internal organizational capacity and capabilities as well as actual or potential competitive advantages. Application of the Value Chain principle identifies the nature of relationships of interconnected dimensions of service delivery and support activities that generate value in healthcare markets to assess potential areas of strength and weakness as well as opportunities for process improvement or investment to maintain or achieve competitive advantage. The net organizational effect of this module is to determine "What can we do?" or the corollary question, "What can't we do?"
Apply Value Chain analysis to your selected organization and service\product line (which is Johns Hopkins Hospital and department of Gynecology).
Identify potential organizational strengths or weaknesses
Identify organizational areas that may be enhanced with process improvement or investments
The working exercise summary analyses should reflect higher level cognitive processing (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation), which is essential for someone being prepared to serve in an operational capacity within the healthcare and related industry.