Strategic planning in health care is essential today to scale and ensure a market presence in support of quality and competitive health care. Effective development and execution of the strategic plan and strategies are essential skills of the nurse leader. Developing a culture of innovation and creativity supports strategies to implement a bottom-up strategic planning structure. Todays strategic planning in health care must be dynamic; it is everyones job every day, not just an annual planning event. A transformational leader is a catalyst for change, and a strategy finder. As we consider healthcare in terms of strategy development and strategic planning, consider the following: 1. Analyze transiting the strategic planning process to strategic management. 2. Discuss the importance of the internal and external environmental assessment addressing business model innovations in the strategic planning process. 3. Apply contributing factors to success for leaders to navigate diverse and changing strategic environments, including leadership from the Christian world view.
