Write a DETAILED 5-6 page (APA format 12 font, times new roman, double spaced) analysis on the case given addressing these components in depth:
ENVIROMENTAL ANALYSIS: EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL – 15 points possible
Have present/future opportunities and threats been explicitly identified for the major external forces in the general (socio-cultural, technological, economic, ecological / epidemiological, political-legal) and operating (e.g., community, customers, competitors, industry) spheres? Is there clear evidence that a significant number of relevant tools of analysis were utilized? Examples:
Technology assessment matrix
Stakeholder audit
Health utilization models
Porter’s model
Impact matrix
Have present / future strengths and weaknesses been explicitly identified for the internal environment? Is there clear evidence that a significant number of relevant tools of analysis were utilized? Examples:
Portfolio analysis
Financial ratios
Strategic and management audits
Strategic prescriptive models
Portfolio analysis models
Product/service positioning analysis
ALTERNATIVES – 15 points possible
Are the potential alternatives (possible courses of action / solutions) clearly stated and described, plausible, and mutually-exclusive? Do they flow from the analysis? Where there are multiple problem statements, is there a set of alternatives for each problem statement or a comprehensive set of proposed alternatives that address all the combined problem statements?
Are the alternatives built upon and each evaluated against sound reasoning, with the evaluation involving an explicitly identified criteria? Are specific descriptive models (e.g., organization models, regression models, input-out models, pro forma financial statements with explicitly stated assumptions, break-even / variable budget models, psychological process models, health behavior models, health utilization models) used in predicting performance? Are specific normative models (e.g., present…