Health Services Strategic Marketing Wk 10 Discussion 1

Please respond to the following: “Strategy Map”

• Per the text, the health care industry is known as one of the most complex operational environments, placing a premium on excellence in strategic planning and management. Determine the key reasons why health care marketing professionals should realize such complexity. Provide an example to support your rationale.
• Appraise the value offered by Ries and Trout’s Marketing Warfare Strategies in assisting in the understanding and implementation of competitor-oriented marketing strategies that can be employed to increase market share. Provide at least two (2) specific examples of the Ries and Trout’s Marketing Warfare Strategies Model that apply within a health care organization with which you are familiar.