Chapter 8 VALUE ADDING SERVICE DELIVERY STRATEGIES
Chapter 8 VALUE ADDING SERVICE DELIVERY STRATEGIES
Strategic Planning
• External Analysis
• Internal Analysis
• Directional Strategies
• Directional Strategies
• Adaptive Strategies
• Market Entry Strategies
• Competitive Strategies
Maintenance of
Scope
Enhancement
PORTER’S VALUE CHAIN MODEL
VALUE ADDING SERVICE DELIVERY
STRATEGIES
• Value adding service delivery strategies translate the directional.
Adaptive, market entry and competitive strategies into actions as a
critical component of the value chain
• Attempt to reposition health care organization in the environment to
create new competitive advantage
• Value added service delivery strategies are critical to the success of
the organization because they are the principal methods for
creating value. Therefore, explicit strategies must be developed for
each.
VALUE ADDING SERVICE DELIVERY
STRATEGIES
Point-of-Service
Clinical Ops
After-Service
Follow-up
Billing
Follow-on
PRE-SERVICE ACTIVITIES
• It entails the planning and activities that enable the organization to
determine its customers and the services that will be offered to them
as they enter the system pre-service marketing include
• Marketing and marketing research
• Design services
• Brand
• Price
• Distribution / logistics
• Promotion
MARKETING AND MARKETING RESEARCH
• Marketing and marketing research enables the organization to
determine the appropriate customers (target market) and types of
services to be delivered by
• Gathering data about the market itself, potential customers, their
wants and needs and what will satisfy them, customers’ habits and
choices in terms of healthcare
DESIGN SERVICES
Design services will provide satisfaction to:
1. Customers
2. Physicians
3. Friends
4. Families
and to include
5. Multiple service categories such as Long term care
6. Emergency medication or segmentation (a recognizable group that makes
your market as target market)
BRAND
Branding represents three things
1. What an organization offers to the market?
2. What organization does?
3. What organization is?
• It implies trust, consistency, defined set of expectation
• It sets promise
• Strong brands have a unique position in the mind of buyer and can be usually
articulated
PRICE:
Moderate price strategy must be selected carefully because it is very difficult to
determine price and consumers don’t have ability to judge quality
DISTRIBUTION/LOGISTICS
• Location of health care provider will impact the number of people to seek the
service because people don’t want to travel great distances
• Demographic studies of population are important part of choosing location for
facilities
• Satellite offices and hospital branches are important
• Convenience factors drives people in mobile unit
PROMOTION
• Advertisements
• Public relation events
• Personal selling’s
• Sales promotions
• Contest participation in trade shows
POINT OF SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Point of service is oriented around patient care and delivery (clinical),
market activities, market study in order to suggest good manner in
health care delivery
• Point of service clinical operations
• Point of service marketing
• Clinical innovation
• Marketing
• Patient satisfaction
POINT OF SERVICE CLINICAL OPERATIONS