Short Case 4: Organizational Adaptation As health care administrators, we play a pivotal role in recognizing the need to adapt and recommend responses to environmental changes that threaten achievement of organizational goals

Short Case 4: Organizational Adaptation

As health care administrators, we play a pivotal role in recognizing the need to adapt and recommend responses to environmental changes that threaten achievement of organizational goals. You are completing this assignment to demonstrate your ability to recognize the need to adapt, evaluate appropriate responses, and recommend actions to improve organizational adaptive capability. In the article, “Strategic Planning in Health Care: The Results are Everything…Or Are They?,” Schidlow (2008) explains, “A strategic plan needs to be like a musical score: the notes are all there, but some interpretive creativity must be allowed in its expression. There needs to be some flexibility to change course in response to untoward events or opportunities, without losing sight of the goals.” In 350 words or less, describe an example of a recent (within the past six years) external health care environmental pressure that changed your organization or an organization that you are familiar with.