Strategic choices

Reinhardt, Uwe E. 1996. Rationing in Health Care What It Is, What It Is Not, and Why We Cannot Avoid It, in Strategic Choices for a Changing Health System, ed. by Stuart H. Altman and E. Uwe, 63-100. Chicago Health Administration Press. 

Each chapter includes a section on the principal policymakers and the government machinery for taking decisions on an inter-service basis. There follow sections dealing with the development of weapons systems (including their tactical application) the economic resources available for their production and the strategic choices taken in the period covered by the chapter. These themes are inter-related and inevitably there... 

The management challenges in each of these major categories differ considerably. In Chapter 3 we will return to these and describe the potential strategic choices for the chemical industry. 

To come out as winners in the shifting landscape, chemical industry players chiefly need to create strategic headroom by increasing profitability, and develop more insight and foresight than ever in their strategic choices. 

Companies have to make important strategic choices as the petrochemical industry moves eastward to take advantage of low feedstock cost in the Middle East and... 

Figure 22.5 shows how product, customer, and market characteristics can determine different SCM strategies and design implications. For example, the strategic choice to serve niche customers with high price specialty chemicals is only tenable if the high-value inventory is centralized to reduce costs, and if a fast, responsive supply chain is set up to fill customer orders within the requested lead time from central inventory. 

Hamilton WF, Vila J, Dibner MD, Patterns of strategic choice in emerging firms positioning for innovation in biotechnology, Calif Management Rev., 32 73-86, 1990. 

Hale, M. (1994). Strategic choices in drainage geochemistry. 111-144 in Drainage Geochemistry. In Handbook of Exploration Geochemistry (M. Hale andj. A. Plant, eds.), Vol. 6. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 

I 3 Strategic Choices for the Chemical Industry in the Neur Millennium... 

Epstein AM. The role of quality measurement in a competitive marketplace. In Altman S, Reinhardt U, eds. Strategic choices for a changing care system. Chicago Health Administration Press, 1996 207-34. 

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