Project Plan
3 strategic issues, 3 challenges and three solutions all must follow in sequential order. each of the strategies must follow its corresponding challenges in that order. The three challenges identified must have associated solutions in order of respect. The author must device one solution to be implemented in a learning disability company with the attached template for the project plan. The instruction is stated on the template for your reference. word count should be 1200. Each question constitute 300 words with the first three divided into three parts against each points.
PROJECT PLAN: LEARNING DISABILITY SERVICES
| Student Number: | Organization or Service: LEARNING DISABILITY SERVICES |
The research of Learning Disability Services and the implementation plan will involve looking up the health’s sector in depth, as well as, the operational and strategic issues reported in the sector’s annual reports and news. The project management tools, techniques, and knowledge in addition to supplementary information will guide the implementation plan acquired from scholarly publications on the central issues.
Question 1: Identify and analyse three strategic issues facing the overall sector of your chosen business or service (Total 300 words)
| Point | Strategic Issues | Evidence (financial, reports, news, etc.) | Model (s)/Theory (ies) |
| 1 | Increased Virtue Care adoption, digital technology in healthcare | The rise of virtual care systems that the masses are adopting has profoundly affected the healthcare sector. People use tele medics, where they acquire internet-based services with online or virtue consultants. 75% of the population in the country uses virtue care systems whereby the highest percentage records 97% high satisfaction, 94% better compliance treatment, and 62% increased confidence. They access these virtue care systems through numerous apps with reduced paperwork needed and increased patient face time increased by 29% (Taylor, 2018). However, despite the changes, the European mobile healthcare market is likely to have increased, and the largest revenue compared to global revenues. The highest predicted growth is about 61.6% compared to the worldwide growth rate of 54.9% equivalent to $7.1 billion in Europe and $21.5 billion global markets, as of 2018 onwards. | Critical theory of technology |
| 2 | Rising cost-effective healthcare costs among employees and the government | The need for cost-effective healthcare in the country continues to increase daily and annually, for instance, according to the NHS funding of 2020-2021, the report forecast to attain a funding gap of €30 billion. This funding gap is also expected to rise due to the projected and expected rises in the costs of chronic conditions. In 2018, the funding of chronic conditions hit €5 billion. The home care services are projected to have at least an increase in emergency admissions and attendance by 40%-50%. Medical costs are projected to increase by 6.3% (Consultancy.uk, 2018). | Standard theory of market operations |
| 3 | Cybersecurity risks | Data security in the healthcare sector is highly challenged due to the extensive nature of personal information, records on insurance, patient healthcare, and insurance companies. The industry requires extensive IT collaboration strategically inclusive of adequate resources and modern technology that guarantees data security and legal compliance, preventing data loss and fraud activities in hospitals (Saira Ghafur, 2019). | Critical theory of technology |
Question 2: Identify and analyse three challenges facing your chosen company or service (Total 300 words)
| Point | Challenges | Evidence (financial, reports, news, etc.) | Model (s)/Theory (ies) |
| 1 | Technological disruption of the traditional healthcare processes and increased virtue care systems and reliance among the people | The medical facilities have profoundly been affected by the events of globalization and advanced technologies, as medical systems and the people are shifting towards virtue medical assistance, where they do not require much paperwork or travelling for health checkups. The proliferation of virtue-based Medicare technology will result in reduced traditional importance, decreased costs across departments. Patients are the backbone of healthcare systems, and these virtue-based technologies will erode the agenda of helping healthcare. This will also affect healthcare laws and regulations, as digital healthcare laws, must be developed (Thimbleby, 2013). | Disruptive technologies and innovation |
| 2 | Increasing healthcare costs and funding gaps | According to the NHS in England, the medical prices in 2018 in actual spending included over €100 billion and the planned spending in 2023 is over €120 billion, which is an extra €20 billion. The expenditure of the government is estimated to increase by 3.4% annually (Pym, 2019). The government expects high health lobbyists while hospitals are faced with constrained budgets due to the high funding gaps. The medical costs and complexities are continually rising, which is straining the effective care providence. There has been increased patient expectations and demand for better healthcare, which is countered by reduced funding availability and increased costs. | Standard theory of market operations |
| 3 | Medical errors, data losses, fraudulent cases, and cyber security risks | The healthcare systems are vulnerable to cyber threats, which is compromising the safety of people’s health information and transactions. There is prevalent data theft, data corruption, and hacking of systems that are directly harming the patients and the hospitals. The data and system breaching is costing hospitals many millions hence increased costs and decreased business sustainability. The NHS is trying hard to address these challenges effectively (Saira Ghafur, 2019). | Critical theory of technology |
Question 3: Identify and analyse the three solutions to address the challenges facing your chosen company or service (Total 300 words)
| Point | Solutions | Evidence (financial, reports, news, etc.) | Model (s)/Theory (ies) |
| 1 | Implementing and integrating telemedicine and virtue care-based care as extensions in the hospitals | This will help the hospitals bridge the service-providence gap technology is trying to create. The survival of the brick and mortar healthcare facilities will depend on the fast acceptance of the technology in the operations and processes. This solution plays two vital roles, namely cutting operational costs while increasing the cost-saving opportunities and increasing revenue. Hospitals can collect revenue from physical hospitals and improve their gross profits with virtue-based healthcare benefits (Dutta, 2019). Besides, 70% of the population is an untapped niche that the hospitals can exploit. 70% is a large number with much potential in terms of monetary and nonmonetary benefits. | Critical theory of technology
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| 2 | Seeking and implementing alternative measures of bridging the funding gaps and increase income inflow | Seeking and implementing alternative sources of funding will help reduce health costs and expenditure while finding adequate sources of the funds. For instance, adopting telemedicine and virtue-based care will help in cutting costs in the hospital departments, trim nonvalue adding functions, and control various operations costs. This will increase the future costs savings, hence better sources of funding. Secondly, the ageing population should have increased years and provided with sources of employment. This will help them take up health benefits while working and having some income flow that will help them pay for the high costs. With increased income flow, the insurance premiums and health costs will significantly reduce. | Standard theory of market operations |
| 3 | Increased IT collaboration and implementation of effective cybersecurity risk management strategies | This will help hospitals address cybersecurity risks effectively and efficiently while integrating a value-based care system. The models will assist in identifying sources of threats and providing the most effective solutions. Moreover, change management will help in effectively addressing the digitalization change and adopting appropriate risk management strategies with the advancement in technology (Luna, 2018). | Lewin’s Change Management Model
Enterprise Risk Management Model
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Question 4: Explain how your company could practically implement one solution (Total 300 words)
| Specific objective | Approach (Marketing, HRM, Operations, and Practice etc.) | Stage 1: Inputs, financial, technological, material, human | Stage 2: Actions and Timeline | Stage 3: Delivery and Evaluation | Model (s) |
| Screening and Testing for Learning Disabilities among children and students through technology and accommodation | The implementation of the solution will be conducted through elaborative and rigorous marketing of the activity to the target market of parents with pupils and students. There will be the training of the staff and equipping the HRM with necessary and adequate skills and resources. | The inputs will include trained staff, admitting 20 students with learning disabilities and difficulties such as dyslexia, attention difficulties, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and dyspraxia, among others, including screening and testing materials such as computers with programs that spell check and produce predictive texts. The most important materials and equipment, such as encoding machines, supportive muscle equipment, touch-type devices, monitoring, and evaluative tools, will be used. Hence, the project will require financial funding of all tasks and wage payment among other aspects in the budget. | The project will be scheduled to take place in Four Months whereby the milestones of the projects include:
1. Project scope planning and financial analysis, taking- Two Weeks 2. Training and certifying the staff on effective screening and testing for learning disabilities- Two Weeks 3. Ordering and purchasing required tools and machines- Three Weeks 4. Installation of the devices- One Week 5. Actual screening and testing of the students- Two Months |
Delivery of the project will follow the WMO Service Delivery Strategy that will focus on the main objective, provide high-quality results and processes, will be dependable and credible to the students and all other involved stakeholders.
Monitoring and evaluation will be conducted using the project’s deliverables, success criteria and indicators, follow-up meetings, and key performance indicators to determine the effectiveness of the project. |
1. WMO Service Delivery Strategy
2. Project Management Model 3. Balanced Scorecard 4. RACI Chart 5. Communication Plan 6. VRIO Planning Framework 7. Vroom–Yetton contingency model 8. Lewin’s Change Management Model
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References
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