Strategic management systems are ongoing organizational mechanisms or arrangements for strategically managing the implementation of agreed-upon strategies, assessing the performance of those strategies, and formulating new or revised strategies (Bryson, 2004, pg. 270). There are six types of strategic management systems, although any strategic management system in practice will probably be a hybrid of the six types (Bryson, 2004, pg. 271). The types of strategic management systems consist of the integrated units of management approach, the strategic issues management approach, the contract approach, the collaboration approach, the portfolio management approach, and the goals or benchmark approach.

The proposed strategic plan for Northwell Health focuses on providing a seamless provision of health care to all patients. Northwell Health would benefit from using the goals or benchmark approach. It is designed to gain …show more content…
Northwell Health is a 10 billion dollar not-for-profit hospital system (Herman, 2017).

The political dimension of the strategic management systems goals approach will center around the new Republican health care bill. The Republicans want to repeal The Affordable Care Act. In New York, 2.7 million people would lose health insurance coverage from the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (McNally, 2017). Roughly 21% Northwell Health’s patient revenue comes from treating low-income people on Medicaid (Herman, 2017). These actions would cause Northwell Health and many other hospitals in America to lose revenue.

The internal political process would not have much of an effect on the strategic planning process because the systems looseness. When an agreement can be reached and support for implementation can be generated, this approach can work reasonably well (Bryson, 2004,