Strategic Management Analysis of Albany Medical College

This paper analyzes the strategic position of Albany Medical College in the US through external business environment analysis frameworks such as 7s framework theory, SWOT, and PESTEL analysis. The weaknesses in its management structure are revealed, and recommendations are provided to deal with them. The paper also proposes a suitable management structure change in the organization.

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Abstract
The company selected for carrying out strategy analysis is Albany Medical College that is
positioned as a renowned US based non-profit medical research company. The paper will
evaluate its strategic position in US through employing certain effective external business
environment analysis frameworks such as 7s framework theory, SWOT along with PESTEL
analysis. Certain weaknesses have been revealed in its management structure that has resulted in
attaining advantages of new educative applications in medical sciences. To deal with such
concerns Albany Medical College should develop strategy of offering training grants along with
fellowships at the pre-as well as post-doctoral levels that needs to be gradually increased.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
2. 7S framework theory...................................................................................................................3
3. SWOT analysis............................................................................................................................8
4. PESTLE analysis.......................................................................................................................10
5. Change recommendations..........................................................................................................14
6. Management structure before and after the change...................................................................17
7. Conclusion.................................................................................................................................21
References......................................................................................................................................23

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1. Introduction
Strategic analysis business tools and techniques can facilitate in understanding the
company’s environment strategically regarding the business. Such tools facilitate in analyzing
the business position of the company along with its strategic advantages in the industry. It can
also facilitate in analyzing the strengths and weaknesses within its management structure (Gureje
et al. 2015). The objective of this paper is to carry out strategic management analysis of a health
science university and a biomedical research institution of US. The company selected for
carrying out strategy analysis is Albany Medical College that is positioned as a renowned US
based medical research and patient care company. This organization carries out biomedical
research and grants institutions and other individuals in supporting range of international
research activities along with pre-college and undergraduate science education.
The major purpose of this institution is to promote human knowledge in the basic science
field along with its effective application (Amc.edu., 2018). Considering same, the paper will
evaluate its strategic position in US through employing certain effective external business
environment analysis frameworks such as 7s framework theory, SWOT along with PESTEL
analysis. Based on the findings effective change recommendations will be provided along with
proposing a suitable management structure change in the organization.
2. 7S framework theory
McKinsey 7S model serves as an important tool in analyzing Albany Medical College’s
internal competitive advantage aspects such as its position of strategy, structure, systems, shared
values, style, staff and skills (Král and Králová 2016). All such factors facilitate in determining

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the ways in which Albany Medical College develops plan in maintaining and developing
competitive advantage among its rivals in US. Moreover, it can also facilitates in understanding
the ways in which the organization is structured along with the leadership style and
organizational capabilities attained by the institution (Ravanfar 2015). This can further facilitate
in recognizing if they are effective enough and is aligned with company objectives. Such
analysis will facilitate in evaluating the strengths and weaknesses in its internal organization’s
skills based on which suitable recommendations can be provided for maintaining its suitable
position in UK.
Figure 1: McKinsey 7S model of Albany Medical College
(Source: Faturrohman et al. 2018)

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 Strategy- Albany Medical College developed a strategy that has focused on increased
investment in the community care biomedical research. An increased funding is needed
in bringing overall shifting care within a community focused on which biomedical
researches carried out by this institution (Shaqrah 2018). The medical institution
implemented a strategy to build and maintain competitive advantage over the
competition. Albany Medical College considered maximum asset utilization so that it
operates in clusters and through setting medical research institutions and learning
programs all over US along with attaining certain expensive resources such as medical
equipment’s and bank-end operations that must also be shared all across the institution
(Spaho 2014).
 Structure- Albany Medical College board will encompass 6 directors that will include a
chairman along with 2 directors each from the biomedical research process along with 2
independent directors those will have extensive industry experience on medical teaching.
The Albany Medical College’s management team will include professionals those will
have a combination of different backgrounds along with expertise in research and
biomedical knowledge field those will be from US. The health science university and a
biomedical research institution of US will have its corporate headquarter in US.
 Systems- The biomedical research and health care science education institute follows a
system that includes four major elements that includes high throughput, no frills model,
service specialization along with asset utilization maximization (Baishya B., 2015). The
aspects of this system followed in Albany Medical College are explained below:
High throughput: Albany Medical College operates its business in large volumes in
comparison to the transparent players that segments its fixed costs over a wide range of

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consumers. Albany Medical College conducts more than 100-200 researchers per month
in comparison to previous years.
No frills models: Albany Medical College offers services which is needed by all its
target consumers at the while refraining it from making infrastructure investments needed
by very few of the customers. Albany Medical College collaborates with the pediatric
hospitals in conducting extensive research on biomedical issues. These are through
offering practical learning experience to the students in the institute. Albany Medical
College attains support through this system in keeping its costs low along with decreasing
operating expenses.
Service specialization: Albany Medical College’s specialization in biomedical research
and education services facilitates its processes to become highly standardized and
reportedly carried out by its staff. Such processes are also replicated in all its institutions
and research centers for its expansion (Chanpuypetch and Kritchanchai 2017).
Asset utilization maximization: Albany Medical College operates in segments. Through
setting a number of research centers and health science learning centers in a city, some of
the costly resources might be shared across medical institutions.
 Shared Values- Albany Medical College has a shared value of positioning itself as the
leading health care education provider and research institution that offering superior
quality, affordable core health care services all through the nation. Clear direction and
strategies fostered shared values along with maintaining strong organizational cohesion
(Weeger and Gewald 2015). Albany Medical College also has the culture of maintaining
good communication along with energy for offering superior quality care for the patients
even in a situation of increased costs and workload in research and educational processes

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carried out in this institution. The institution also has culture of maintaining close
working relationships along with simple structure of its management.
 Style- Albany Medical College follows rigorous evaluation and monitoring style. This
cultural style followed in the institution defines the ways in which managers behave in
attaining their common organizational goal. Through analyzing the culture style followed
in Albany Medical College it has been gathered that the staff within the company
maintain effective relationships among their professional group to foster a positive
organizational culture (Castaneda et al. 2015). Moreover, they also carry out regular
meetings in maintaining collaborations for maintaining an effective cultural style in
biomedical research and health care science learning services.
 Staff- Albany Medical College attains a skilled pool of medical doctors, nurses,
biomedical researchers and health science professors. These include the number and type
of staff maintained by this institute. However, the institution faces issues regarding
maintaining right composition of staff and few challenges also takes place in case
employees are not willing to remain as flexible towards work as needed (Back et al.
2016). In addressing such concern related to its staff, Albany Medical College has
considered developing multidisciplinary teams; these can share expertise regarding
medical research planning.
 Skills- Albany Medical College has expert skills of talented medical researchers, doctors
and professors these are highly capable to offer extensive knowledge in medical science
subjects. The institution also has a panel of expert researchers those are highly skilled in
carrying out biomedical researchers to analyze the current health issues faced by US
population along with analyzing the modern technologies those can be beneficial in

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addressing such concerns (Aiken et al. 2017). The biomedical research carried out in this
institution is wide and includes current concerns such as maternal healthcare, pediatric
care, diagnostic and pharmacy services. It also offers healthcare education services to the
communities in which their institutions located.
3. SWOT analysis
SWOT analysis conducted for Albany Medical College in analyzing the strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the business that can facilitate in better strategy
implementation for attaining a strategic position (Niederwieser et al. 2016). From carrying out
SWOT analysis below it becomes evident that in the health care sector that serves as a major
strength in increasing quality of patient care learning along with high standards in biomedical
research within the institution. Moreover, certain weaknesses have also been revealed in its
management structure that has resulted in attaining advantages of newer educative applications
in medical sciences (Brubakk et al. 2015). To attain increased competitive advantages certain
operating growth opportunities must be utilized by the health care institute. The institute must
also consider that infrastructure and resources are a major part of biomedical research system and
therefore its maintenance is an important decision to be taken by the institution. Moreover, it has
also been gathered that the institution can attain the opportunity of improving its income by
enhancing efficiency, increasing investment in biomedical research-based education services and
through advancing its management structure (Pastrana, Centeno, C. and De Lima, L., 2015).
Strengths
 The company has competitive
advantages as it uses state-of-art
Weaknesses
 Certain weaknesses are faced as the
institution has certain weak healthcare

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medical equipment
 Increased investments in healthcare
informatics
 Has great focus on community
healthcare improvement projects (Lu,
Tao and Ying 2017)
 The company has highly competent
employees
 It also communicates clear
understanding regarding company goals
and increased quality improvement
 Organizational structure is observed to
have an increased collaboration with
other healthcare organizations
 Existence of relevant and timely
biomedical research data that decrease
costs and increase quality of patient
care
education facilities
 Lack of continuousness in clinical
process
 Disruption in the care education
continuity resulting from poor
communication
 Inefficiency in the education system
 Poor use of healthcare info metrics (Ma
Han and Ma 2015)
 Insufficient training
 Weak availability of financial resources
Opportunities
 Collaboration among medical research
institutes and healthcare organizations
by development of healthcare delivery
networks
Threats
 Political or economic stability can
impact US investment in biomedical
research
 Increasing demand by physicians and

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 Increased level of funding for the
healthcare info metrics
 Increased chances of community
partnership for developing new
healthcare programs
 Implementation of new clinical
parochial for improving quality and
efficiency of the medical education
(Kapoor, Tan-Koi and Teo 2016)
medical students for expensive medical
technology that is not that cost effective
 Increasing deficits in state and federal
budget
 An increasing uninsured population
along with increasing pressure to
decrease costs of healthcare
4. PESTLE analysis
PESTEL analysis is carried out for Albany Medical College in analyzing its business
environment in which it operates along with the strengths and challenges faced by the company
in maintaining its sustainable business position (Hamdan 2017).Moreover, carrying out such
analysis will also facilitate in analyzing the strengths and internal resources of the organization
along with evaluating the weaknesses prevailing within the company that needs improvement for
attaining competitive advantages for the company in the end.
 Political-These factors have a significant role in determining the factors which can
impact the company’s long term profitability over the long run (Fosher 2018). For
attaining success in the industry as a biomedical institute and research organization, the
company needs to consider all its political risks that include industrial safety regulations
within the Healthcare sector. Certain political factor that is deemed to affect the medical

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institution includes poking regulations for the biomedical research materials. Taxation on
biomedical equipment’s is another concern for this research institute (Quinn, Brovman
and Urman 2017). Moreover, most of biomedical institution remains privatized and there
has been certain changes in the curriculum of Albany Medical College with decreased
lead times. The government initiatives for the biomedical research institutes are imposing
risks that can lead to medical institution fail to deliver the policy. Considering the same,
it clarified that Albany Medical College needs to be self-managing and self-financing to
sustain its competitive position in the industry.
 Economic-Among the economic factors, central or local government funding decisions
might affect Albany Medical College along with their fund-raising plans. Interest rates
along with shortages of materials within the domestic and international markets.
Overprovision of biomedical research institution places in the region can lead to
increased competition from other biomedical research institutions. Moreover, certain
other economic factors affect the business operation of Albany Medical College that
affects the aggregate demand and investment within the economy. Certain competition
norms are observed to affect the medical institution’s competitive advantage in US.
Certain economic aspects that affect the business of the institution include biomedical
education level in the economy along with the extent of government intervention in free
market and biomedical research purposes (Mehdaova 2017). It is for this medical institute
to comprehend all stages of its business cycle before making any contribution in the
biomedical industry. It is also necessary to consider developing best infrastructures which
can enhance biomedical research services along with the educational programs.

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 Social-Considering the socio-cultural factors impacting business of Albany Medical
College it can be analyzed that certain issues related with aging population, decrease in
fertility, gender preferences along with eating habits serves as major health issues
recently based on which biomedical research needs to be focused on (Taggart et al. 2015)
Moreover, impact of the modern biomedical technologies offers an increased chance for
the medical students to attain learning on such advancements to make better contributions
in biomedical industry through choosing it as their career. Moreover, increased use of
internet medium in US medical institutes are evident that is observed to decrease the
communication cost incurred at the time of medical consultation along with other
services (Grünig and Kühn 2015). In addition, Albany Medical College considered that
shared attitudes and beliefs of the US population have a major role in which the
researchers and students of this medical institute understand consumers of the market.
The consumer attitudes of US population are observed to be towards health and social
consciousness along with leisure interests. This is deemed to impact the issues on which
the medical institute will focus on for research and its educational services.
 Technological-Technological advancements are specific to the biomedical institution
along with its research and education facilities that can have a wide range of impacts on
its overall performance. The equipment is supportive for biomedical research and
educational purposed used by Albany Medical College gets to change based on
developments in its new treatment facilities. It is gathered that in US constant
advancement of technology in the biomedical industry is taking place that can affect the
ways in which biomedical institutes communicate with their consumers and students
(Moutinho and Phillips 2018). Planning by Albany Medical College to take advantage of

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such advancements can result it in attaining increased growth opportunities. Recent
technological advancements made by Albany Medical College turns out to be effective in
comparison to its competitors through developing effective biomedical devices. This also
serves as a legal requirement in offering certain necessary information along with
attaining necessary information on financing biomedical research through using effective
implantable devices along with tomography scanners (Alava and Mu 2018).
 Legal-Considering the legal factors that affects the business of Albany Medical College it
revealed that in US introduction of clinical safety directives along with medical service
legislation has facilitated in dealing with several research issues faced in the biomedical
research and learning process (Martin 2016). Considering such regulations, the medical
institute considers the set laws and policies for offering an opportunity of medical
research and learning consultancy. Technological impact is also observed in biomedical
product offerings along with the value chain structure of the biomedical research
institute. The institute must also consider that infrastructure and resources are a major
part of biomedical research system and therefore its maintenance is an important decision
to be taken by the institution (Heischmidt 2018).
 Environmental-There are also several environmental factors those are deemed to impact
Albany Medical College. In biomedical research and education purposes “green
information technology” is opted by also most all the biomedical institutes in US.
Moreover, there are certain environmental and liability laws regarding disposal of
biomedical wastes along with laws related with endangered species, attitudes towards
support of renewable energy use (Ravanfar 2015).These environmental regulations also
include laws related with environmental pollution along with air and water pollution

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regulations that has affected the ways in which biomedical research process and
education services are provided by Albany Medical College.
5. Change recommendations
Based on the weaknesses revealed through analyzing the 7s Framework, SWOT analysis
and PESTEL analysis certain effective change recommendations are provided to Albany Medical
College that can facilitate it in attaining competitive advantages over its rivals in US. Moreover,
such recommendations will also facilitate in improving the learning services and biomedical
research services within this university. Such proposed change recommendations are explained
under:
 Albany Medical College should develop strategy of offering training grants along with
fellowships at the pre-as well as post-doctoral levels that needs to be gradually increased.
Moreover, at the predoctoral levels that must be increased gradually. It must also focus
on offering research training support through offering suitable training dealerships and
grants. It is also recommended to assist medical research and learning departments for
maintaining gradual expansion in the number of health science students and
postgraduates. In attaining a high student and researcher’s base in this biomedical
instruction, it must make effective efforts in offering all the entry graduates with some
type of financial support that will include traineeship. This can facilitate all the heath
science students of Albany Medical College to attain a better opportunity for attaining
broad multidisciplinary education in health sciences and biomedical field research.
 Albany Medical College must introduce dual-degree training in the basic biomedical
sciences. In this recommendation training grant awards must also be introduced in the

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biomedical science researches that will be focused on multidisciplinary research training.
Considering the existing organizational strengths and capabilities, Albany Medical
College must consider making continuous changes in its biomedical research processes
through developing a tradition of multidisciplinary training. This can facilitate in offering
more and more students will necessary skills those can facilitate the students and the
researchers in collaborating in a better manner with the investigators in clinical medicine.
Long with behavioral sciences that will include physics, mathematics and chemistry.
 Albany Medical College must also focus on increasing its efforts in recognizing and
supporting programs which can facilitate in encouraging and preparing underrepresented
minority students and new researchers for developing careers in basic biomedical
research. The institute must focus on attaining increase in the biomedical sciences
researchers and PhD’s in heath science as their fraction is very low in Albany Medical
College.
 Active leading strategies must be followed all through the management structure of
Albany Medical College. This can facilitate in use of most recent learning techniques
used in US for the biomedical researchers and heath science students. This change can be
implemented through developing a flipped classroom model that will consider use of
short recorded conceptual presentations which can be followed by medical students and
researchers in their medical careers. The format that will be followed in this new
management structure will include spending majority of time with instructors and peers
for a range of active learning activities. This includes critical reflection, problem solving,
discussions and group work while discussing on a new biomedical research issue. On the
other hand, in its heath science education services diversification of instructional along

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with assessment techniques can facilitate accommodation of a broad range of learner
needs along with preferences. This in turn can positively impact the medical learning
processes of the students.
 To enhance the process of research the biomedical research and heath science learning
process big data application needs being implemented by Albany Medical College that
can make predictions regarding improved staffing. Moreover, the research process along
with the health science learning must also consider implementing machine learning
techniques that can offer most suitable algorithms regarding the future biomedical
research trends. Moreover, in making the biomedical researchers more advanced than
other institutions Albany Medical College must consider developing a web-browser
based interface that researchers and doctors must use along with the students. This can
facilitate in offering suitable training on data heath science which can enhance the quality
of medical earning and research process.
 Albany Medical College must also consider integrating big data with medical imaging.
Analyzing and storing such images during the research manually is a difficult task along
with being expensive in terms of time and money. Use of big data analytics for healthcare
can facilitate in changing the ways in which a lot of images recognize particular patterns
in pixels in order to transform it into a number that can help the researchers during any
advanced biomedical research. It could also be simpler to analyze the outcomes of such
research based on algorithms that can provide the institute competitive advantage over
others.

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6. Management structure before and after the change
Albany Medical College’s management structure consists of three elements, which
include the Executive Committee, the Steering Committee and staffs. The structure is
enumerated briefly as follows:
Executive Committee:
This committee looks after the overall direction and strategy of business initiatives. This
committee comprises of the distinguished US and global thought leaders in academia,
government, patient advocacy and industry experienced at envisioning along with facilitating
enhancements in medical research and healthcare systems (Manojlovich and Ketefian 2016). The
group is involved in assuring, informing and facilitating meaningful enhancements to the
conduct as well as design of clinical trials. Along with this, this group is involved in addressing a
broad range of strategies as well as policy reforms for enhancing healthcare.
Steering Committee:
Albany Medical College has a steering committee composed of representatives from the
organization throughout various sectors. The main duty of the committee is to provide valuable
input into decision regarding the priorities, recommendations and projects of the organization.
Moreover, the role of the committee is significant to facilitate enhancements in conduct as well
as design of clinical trials within the overall organization (Weaver et al. 2016). Along with this,
the steering committee of the institute performs a variety of other tasks, which include the
following:
 Providing advice on the medical budgets
 Defining and assisting in accomplishing the project outcomes

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 Identifying the project priorities, in which most efforts need to be directed (DiCuccio
2015)
 Monitoring timelines and risks
 Monitoring the overall project quality with its developments
 Identifying the probable risks
Staffs:
The staffs of Albany Medical College are involved in providing to the execution and
development of projects along with dissemination of project outcomes. Moreover, the staff
members are involved in organizing and support activities of the Steering Committee as well as
the Executive Committee (Foucault 2016). The staffs of the institute participate in the annual
budgeting process and they intend to identify the unfavorable variances so that corrective actions
could be undertaken accordingly. However, it is noteworthy to mention that the current
management structure of Albany Medical College suffers from certain deficiencies due to lack of
supervision and control. This mandates the need for a new management structure in order to be
effective for the institute.
ExecutiveCommitteeSteeringCommittee

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Figure 2: Current Organization Structure of Albany Medical College
(Source: Amc.edu. 2018)
The proposed management structure after implementing changes in Albany Medical
College as explained in the figure below:
Figure 1: Proposed Management Structure after Change Implementation
(Source: Alexander 2018)
The new management structure of Albany Medical College will include vice-president of
research and development. The personnel will be responsible for handing the growth plans,

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capitalization and also serves as the Chief Executive Officer. The tasks within this management
structure will be handled by the internally recruited consultants. Under the supervision will be
four major departments including clinical, physics, research and education division those will
offer information, therapeutic, diagnostic and support services.
Clinical division or information service will be responsible for developing new
engineering-driven heath care technologies along with processes which can leverage the
effective diversity of their physicians and biomedical researchers (Santos, Pache and Birkholz
2015). This management level will also be responsible for adapting and tailoring bioengineering
ad heath science education house-based innovations and processes. This can leverage the rich
diversity of the company’s researchers and students in attaining knowledge on new health care
advancements. Moreover, this department will have responsibilities of maintaining a medical
laboratory that will study tissues and medical imaging that will conduct research and offer
learning on radiology.
Physics division or therapeutic services department will focus on biomedical, central
supply, housekeeping along with computer information on records of research work along with
learning services. Moreover, certain other job roles such as funds allocation, maintaining better
financial controls are important along with maintaining billing services. This department will
also be responsible for organizing, directing along with controlling development, procurement
along with maintenance of research workers and professors (Santos, Pache and Birkholz 2015).
This for managing, recruiting, selecting and developing members of the institution for offering
learning and research services based on the new changes.

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Research division or diagnostic services department will focus on offering research
support to the overall institution through conducting contributing research on biomedical
technology. The personnel will be responsible for designing, repairing, building advanced
medical equipment’s. This department will also form a biostatistics research group through
offering statistical collaboration and consultation with research scientists.
Education division or support services department will be responsible for offering
learning services to the biomedical and heath science students on current and future
advancements in therapeutic, diagnostic, intervention and prevention studies that can enhance
patient care facilities in US. This department will have professors those will be highly skilled in
advanced biomedical and healthcare learning and will be responsible for developing e-heath
technology enabled primary, secondary and tertiary education facilities (Agha 2014). The
professors will also be responsible for offering development and implementation of data-capture
tools along with offering students with relevant heath information and suitable technologies in
offering quality medical services and developing research works.
7. Conclusion
The paper evaluated its strategic position in US through employing certain effective
external business environment analysis frameworks such as 7s framework theory, SWOT along
with PESTEL analysis. It is gathered for the paper that the strategy of Albany Medical College
has focused on increased investment in the community care biomedical research. This needs an
increased funding in bringing overall shifting care within a community focused on which
biomedical research is carried out by this institution. Albany Medical College has a shared value
of positioning itself as the leading health care education provider and research institution that

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offering superior quality, affordable core health care services all through the nation. The paper
also explained that the consumer attitudes of US population are observed to be towards health
and social consciousness along with leisure interests. This is deemed to impact the issues on
which the medical institute will focus on for research and its educational services. It was also
revealed that to attain increased competitive advantages certain operating growth opportunities
must be utilized by the health care institute. The institute must also consider that infrastructure
and resources are a major part of biomedical research system and therefore its maintenance is an
important decision to be taken by the institution.

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