Swedish Medical Center .

This report discusses the corporate life cycle stages of Swedish Medical Center, its strategy implementation, strategy-culture compatibility, and the benefits of Six Sigma. It also highlights the importance of effective communication and culture in successful strategy implementation.

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Introduction
Swedish Medical Center refers to the largest nonprofit health provider located in the
greater Seatle Area. It poseses five hospital campuses that include first hill, Cherry Hill, Issaquah
and Edmonds. In order to expand its business life cycle the mentioned organization has
implemented a corporate strategy. In the mentioned report, identification of the corporation’s life
cycle, analysis of its strategic implementation, strata cultural compatibility and six sigma method
will be performed.
Discussion
Corporate Life Cycle Stages
The corporation’s life cycle can be defined as the progression of a business along with its
phases overtime and is segregated into five stages that includes launch, growth, shakeout,
maturity and decline stage. It is highly crucial for the management of Swedish Medical Center to
know which stage the company is in order to cope up various challenges and suggests various
strategies to maximize profitability (Koltun & Tharumarajah, 2014).
Launch Stage: in this stage, the organization launches their new product or services. At time of
this phase, sales are low but are slowly increasing.
Growth Stage: During the growth phase an organization experiences rapid growth in sales. With
the increment in sales profit of the organization gets increased.
Shakeout Stage: During the shakeout phase, sales keeps on enhancing, however, in a slower rate
for either approaching market saturation or new competitors entry in the industry (Nicolae &
George-Vlad, 2015).

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Maturity Stage: With the maturity of the market, sales of an organization gradually get
decreased. The Swedish Medical Center is in its maturity stage. As organizations approach
maturity, investments takes place largely behind the business and thus the generatiioon of cash is
higher than the profit.
Decline Stage: In this stage of the business, life cycle, sales, profit and cash flow all
decline. Organizations accept their own failure in order to expand their business cycle by
adopting the change in the environment of the business.
Strategy implementation
Strategy implementation can be defined as the process implemented by the managers of
an organization in order to put strategies ad plan into action, so that desired goal can be obtained.
The strategic plan refers to a written document that details the step and processes required to
reach plan goals along wit including feedback and progress reports for ensuring that the plan is
on track. In order to ensure that the implementation process is successful, the leader needs to
clarify their strategy by providing clear as well as conscience information in a way that an elicit
organizational commitment from staffs whose support is highly crucial for the strategic
implementation (Van der Kolk & Schokker, 2016). This can only take place through effective
communication through every organizational level by using several mediums for dispersing the
information to the staffs (Ahearne, Lam & Kraus, 2014).
In order to begin the implementation process, the questions that need to be considered by
the strategy makers are as follows:
1. Who would provide direction on the strategic plan that would provide the right skills and
competencies to support the plan?

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2. Who are the individuals who will carry out the strategic plan?
3. What must be performed for aligning the operations of the company in the new intended
direction?
4. How is everyone going to perform in order to fulfill the strategic plan?
Strategy-Culture Compatibility
It is really important to assess the strategy-culture compatibility during the implemention
of a new strategy. While culture is a highly crucial aspect, it can be considered as the originator
and thus the strategy follows. Culture can be defined as the value and behavior norms adopted
by a group of individual. It refers to a set of common feelings, beliefs and perceptions about the
value of the organization. A well defined and embedded culture reinforces work friendly
environment in the organization (Jahanian et al., 2015). The power of culture is enormous when
it comes to shape the performance of the employees of the Swedish Medical Center. Considering
the fact that the culture of the mentioned healthcare home is free from work place politics and
superior pressure, employee’s works in a work pressure free environment. The culture of the
Swedish Medical home is found to be shape the attitudes and behavior of the employees (Heine
et al., 2016). According to researchers, the well maintained work place culture of the
organization is one of the chief reasons behind the effective results obtained by the strategic
implementation (Jahanian et al., 2015). Thus, it can be clearly understood that in order to
successfully implement the strategy in the business, culture should be given high importance.
Six Sigma
The term “ six sigma’ can be defined as a disciplined, data-driven, statistical based
approach along with a methodology which is continuously improving for eliminating defects in a

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product, process or services (Pyzdek & Keller, 2014). The sigma represents the population
standard deviation which is a measure of the variation in a data set collected about the process.
Van der Kolk & Schokker, (2016) defined six sigma as a set of management techniques that are
intended to enhance business processes by dimishing the probability that an error or defect may
take place.
Several benefits of six sigma can be pointed out when it comes to the question of implementing
the same. Some of the benefits that can be experienced by the Swedish Medical Center are as
follows:
1. Enhanced consumer loyalty: Implementing Six Sigma demishes the risk of the company
having dissatisfied consumers. Once the training is complete, the employees will be
trained enough to satisfy the consumers (Evans & Lindsay, 2014).
2. Time management: Six sigma helps the management to manage time efficiently which in
turn results in more efficient business.
3. Reduced cycle time: with the help of using Six Sigma, the mentioned organization will
gain the potential of setting up a team of experienced staffs of all levels within the
organization as well as from every functional department.
Conclusion
From the above discussion, it can be clearly understood that the mentioned organization
is in such a position of its life cycle where it requires strategic implementation in order to
enhance the business. Strategy implementation can be defined as the process implemented by the
managers of an organization in order to put strategies ad plan into action, so that desired goal can

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be obtained. Along with this, the six sigma strategy will help the company to retain as well as
enhace its consumer loyalty.

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