Essay On Mediclinic Int'l: Internal & External Analysis, Strategic Choices.

You are required to choose a company that you will research for this assignment.

Note: Choose organization is Mediclinic International

• Balanced Scorecards, including
  • Financial Ratios
  • Comparator Financial Ratios
• SWOT
• PEST, PESTLE or STEEPLE –including Industry Lifecycle
  • Corporate Governance
  • Social Responsibility & Ethics
• Porters Five Forces
• Benchmarking against Industry/sector/competition/best practice(centres of excellence)
• Strategic Position & capabilities/resources
  • Culture and its organisational past
  • Strategic Drift
• VRIN Model (Value, rarity, Inimitability, non-substitutability)
• McKinsey 7S – hard and soft

1. Identify ONE Challenge – Why is it important?
2. Options – 5W’s & How

Examples of models/frameworks that may help you with this aspect of the question:

1. Types of Change
2. Porter’s Generic Strategies
3. Ansoff’s Matrix
4. Growth – Organic/Diversify/M&A

3. Evaluate options – Select best way forward.

Balanced Scorecards (Financial Ratios, Comparator Financial Ratios)

Mediclinic International is an International healthcare provider with a number of hospitals located in different places like South Africa, UAE and Switzerland (medclinic.com 2018). Headquartered in South Africa, the company is listed in the South African Security Exchange as well as the London Stock Exchange. The hospital that was founded in 1983 has now an annual revenue of more than pound 2500 million and a net income of pound 250 million. This makes it one of the most profitable hospitals of the world. The following report aims to analyze the internal and external environment as well as the strategic choices of the hospital.

The main strategies of the hospital are;

1. Providing a wide range of hospital related treatments
2. Improve the quality of healthcare
3. Provide safe and scientific healthcare facility
4. Improve the patient experience

 In Mediclinic International the management ensures a proper and sustainable culture. The management aims to deliver the best quality healthcare to the patients and work on improving relationships among the hospital and the service users (Lovelock and Patterson 2015). The organization was established in 1983 and slowly grew into a large scale health service provider with operations in three different countries.

The strategic drift of the organization has been notable as they have shifted their focus to more customer oriented rather being profit oriented.

1. Value- The resources of the hospital includes the special and innovative services that are hard to match by any other hospitals.
2. Rareness- If the services of the organizations are available to all the organizations then the hospital will fail to achieve any competitive success in the business (Lee and Kotler 2015).
3. Imitability- The premium services cannot be easily obtained by other hospitals
4. Non Substitute- The premium services of the hospital cannot be matched by any other services.

The implementation of the Mckinsey 7’s framework will help the organization to;

1. Improve the performance of the company
2. Determination of using the best strategy for implementation
3. Align the departments and the different processes during a merger or acquisition
4. The examination of the likely effects of future changes within the company. 

The management of the company has announced its success in its South Africa unit, whereas it still suffers from the challenging Middle East unit. The company has entered into an agreement with Al Noor Company to establish the biggest private health care facility in UAE. But unfortunately the move failed as because the number of patients availing the services as well as the operating performance of the Company has been way below expectations.

The absence of a proper and effective planning has led the company to such a crisis in the Middle East. Given the sheer size of the hospital and the service providing facilities the company must charter out a policy to attain profits in the country (McCreaddie et al. 2017).                                  

The 5W’s of communication are namely;

1. Who-The management is fully responsible for such a debacle. The Company should have conducted a proper marketing research before entering the West Asian Market. The government rules and regulations for private companies had also been overlooked by the management which led the company to a crisis situation in Abu Dhabi.
2. What-As mentioned earlier the company suffers from low turnout as well as a poor operating performance.
3. When –The debacle started in the year 2015 when the mentioned health provider entered into an agreement with a local company titled Al Noor.
4. Where-The debacle occurred in Abu Dhabi, a west Asian city in the country UAE.
5. Why- The main reasons for such a problem are the schemes of the UAE government to provide different types of facilities like free treatment and 20% discounts on first health related treatments.
6. How-The challenging environment in Abu Dhabi is because of the weaker second half performance of the company which saw a steep decline in the number of patients visiting the organization and also the lack of proper performance by the management of the Organization.

1. Cost Leadership Strategy- Cost leadership strategies of the mentioned hospital will involve increasing the profits by reducing the cost of products and services and also increasing the market share by different strategies (Peters Blohm and Leimeister2015).
2. Differentiation Strategy- The success of thedifferentiation strategy will involve a proper research, development and innovation. It also depends on the capability of the organization to provide the best quality products and services.
3. Focus Strategy- It is essential for the organization to stay focused and concentrate on the strategies adapted by them to gain success in the modern world.

Organic growth can be achieved by following some simple steps like;

1. Patience and Diligence-The management must have the necessary patience and diligence to achieve organic growth (Ranchod Childs Abraham and Taylor 2016). The executive leaders must need to focus on the goals of the business rather than assuming it to be automatically happening during budget and strategic planning.
2. Selection of the proper team- The Company must recruit talented as well as reliable and consistent team members to help in the steady growth of the organization.

  The company must diversify itself through its products and services as such a diversification will help them achieve the growth targets. It also helps to provide the service seekers with better quality services and help them have a stronghold in the market.

 The management of the company must consider of possible mergers and acquisitions of both large and small scale business that provides similar services to have a competitive advantage in the markets and achieve better profit shares (Sovbetov 2016).

The above frameworks have a number of ways that can be adapted to select the growth strategy for the mentioned private hospital (Winston and Weinstein 2016). Diversification and innovation of new products and services can lead them to success.

The best way forward is to diversify the varied range of products as well as services of the hospital and also by merging or acquiring companies to stay sustainable in nature.

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McCreaddie, M., Kuzemski, D., Griffiths, J., Sojka, E.M., Fielding, M., Al Yateem, N. and Williams, J.J., 2017. Developing nursing research in the United Arab Emirates: a narrative review. International nursing review.

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Ranchod, S., Childs, B., Abraham, M. and Taylor, R., 2016. International benchmarking of hospital utilisation: how does the South African private sector compare?. South African Actuarial Journal, 16(1), pp.69-90.

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Winston, W. and Weinstein, A., 2016. Defining your market: winning strategies for high-tech, industrial, and service firms. Routledge.