How Strategic Alignment Upping Performance

Nowadays, it has been absolutely strict that the §cruelly competing situation due to the budget §controlling programs in the healthcare markets. To §survive, hospitals enhance efficiency and high §quality of operations to cope with the challenges by §applying strategies. How strategies increasing §performance in hospitals become the serious §questions for discussion. This book, therefore, §illustrated information systems fixed to business §strategic activities, called strategic alignment of §IS for short, to up performance as did as manpower, §lands and finance etc. It integrated (1) developing §a strategic alignment framework, (2) developing §strategic alignment constructs, (3) empirically §testing the model within the mediation §perspectives, (4) data surveyed in Taiwan has §analyzed in using the variance-based analysis and §multiple regression method and (5) examining the §links mediating the performance. For the §professionals and executives in healthcare §administration and strategy management fields, this §book led them more sense in directing business §strategies and operations based on strategic §alignment of IS rather than functions §of IS for performance in hospitals.