Healthcare Administration Marketing

    See attached file for ALL necessary documents-18 total pages-3 different papers

​Topic: MinuteClinic inside CVS

Your introduction will include a profile of the organization, a description of the specific product or service including the marketing opportunity, the needs of the target market, the promotions mix, and an explanation of the drivers of demand. Use the feedback you received on the Module One journal and Module Two short paper to assist you in developing your introduction.

Prompt: Craft an introduction to the organization and product or service that you will promote in your strategic marketing proposal. Specifically, the following
critical elements must be addressed:

I.
Introduction

1. Provide a detailed
profile of your selected
organization. What type of organization is it? What is its mission and vision, its service area and

locations, and its major products and services?

2. Describe your
marketing initiative in terms of the specific product or service you have selected. Why is it important to the organization? What

are the current issues with the product or service? Why is a marketing initiative needed?

3. Explain the relevance of knowing your
customers’ needs for marketing your healthcare product or service. Illustrate your response with specific

examples of your primary and secondary customers, as well as their needs, wants, and preferences.

4. Clarify the importance of the
“four P’s” of marketing as they apply to your healthcare product or service. Illustrate your response with specific

examples of how each is or is not relevant.

5. Characterize the relevance of
drivers of demand for marketing your healthcare product or service. Illustrate your response with specific

examples of factors that drive demand for your product or service.

​Topic: MinuteClinic inside CVS

you will establish the context for your healthcare product or service, and analyze the market. To establish the context, you will describe the industry segment, describe your target markets, and specify the marketing goals and objectives. In analyzing the market, you will conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis, assess the competitors in the market, and determine the current market position.

Prompt: Establish the context for your healthcare product or service, and analyze the market. Specifically, the following
critical elements must be addressed:

II.
Establish the Context

1. Determine the
marketing goals of your initiative. You should develop at least three specific objectives that apply best practices and align to the

organizational mission and vision.

2. Analyze the
industry segment for your healthcare product or service. Include all relevant details related to population segment and

demographics, market size, psychographic or health status segmentation, regulatory influences, payer mix, and key success factors.

3. Identify and describe your
target markets. Be sure to include all relevant details related to their demographics, characteristics, preferences, and

consumer behaviors. In any area where you are lacking critical information, explain the type of data that you
would collect to fully understand your target markets.

III.
Market Analysis

1. Conduct a
SWOT analysis for your selected healthcare product or service. Be sure to thoroughly analyze the strengths, weaknesses,

opportunities, and threats by including at least three items in each category.

2.
Assess your organization’s
competitors using specific supporting examples
. You should address at least two competitors, and discuss at least

three strengths and weaknesses for each.

3. Based on your SWOT and competitor assessment, draw informed conclusions about your organization’s current
market position and justify your

claims with specific supporting examples.

​Topic: MinuteClinic inside CVS

Developing and implementing a healthcare marketing proposal requires deep alignment with organizational values, systematic inquiry, and applied, strategic thinking. By engaging the steps of the marketing process, you will gain skills and perspectives applicable to a range of healthcare management careers.

In this project, you will apply what you have learned about healthcare marketing to a real-world organization of your choice. Specifically, you will identify a product or service for which you will develop a
strategic marketing proposal. In your proposal, you must explain the importance of marketing principles as they uniquely apply to your chosen healthcare organization. Additionally, you will engage in the marketing process by establishing objectives, analyzing the market environment, and developing a promotions mix for effectively marketing your product or service.

In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

· Explain the importance of fundamental marketing principles and processes as they uniquely apply to healthcare organizations

· Determine relevant marketing objectives and target audiences that support the mission, vision, and values of healthcare organizations

· Analyze healthcare markets to identify sociocultural characteristics, customer needs, and economic factors that influence demand for health services

· Develop strategic marketing proposals by applying the marketing mix to support the mission and brand identity of healthcare organizations

Prompt Your strategic marketing proposal should address the following
critical elements:

I.
Introduction

1. Provide a detailed
profile of your selected
organization. What type of organization is it? What is its mission and vision, its service area and

locations, and its major products and services?

2. Describe your
marketing initiative in terms of the specific product or service you have selected. Why is it important to the organization? What

are the current issues with the product or service? Why is a marketing initiative needed?

3. Explain the relevance of knowing your
customers’ needs for marketing your healthcare product or service. Illustrate your response with specific

examples of your primary and secondary customers, as well as their needs, wants, and preferences.

4. Clarify the importance of the
“four P’s” of marketing as they apply to your healthcare product or service. Illustrate your response with specific examples of how each is or is not relevant.

5. Characterize the relevance of
drivers of demand for marketing your healthcare product or service. Illustrate your response with specific examples of factors that drive demand for your product or service.

II.
Establish the Context

1. Determine the
marketing goals of your initiative. You should develop at least three specific objectives that apply best practices and align to the

organizational mission and vision.

2. Analyze the
industry segment for your healthcare product or service. Include all relevant details related to population segment and

demographics, market size, psychographic or health status segmentation, regulatory influences, payer mix, and key success factors.

3. Identify and describe your
target markets. Be sure to include all relevant details related to their demographics, characteristics, preferences, and

consumer behaviors. In any area where you are lacking critical information, explain the type of data that you
would collect to fully understand your target markets.

III.
Market Analysis

1. Conduct a
SWOT analysis for your selected healthcare product or service. Be sure to thoroughly analyze the strengths, weaknesses,

opportunities, and threats by including at least three items in each category.

2.
Assess your organization’s
competitors using specific supporting examples
. You should address at least two competitors, and discuss at least

three strengths and weaknesses for each.

3. Based on your SWOT and competitor assessment, draw informed conclusions about your organization’s current
market position and justify your

claims with specific supporting examples.

IV.
Marketing Strategies

1. Develop a
promotions strategy that effectively applies the media mix. Which traditional marketing techniques (e.g., public relations, advertising,

sales and sales promotion, direct marketing) do you recommend and why? Defend each of your proposals using specific evidence and principles

discussed in the course.

2. Analyze the
resource requirements. What are the types of resources you would need for your proposed strategies? What are the categories of

direct and indirect expenses to consider?

3. Propose specific
metrics for
evaluating the success of your marketing proposals. How would you measure success? What sources of data would

you monitor and how would that data be interpreted?

V.
Conclusions: In closing, defend your overall strategy proposal by illustrating the specific ways in which your recommendations would support the mission, vision, and values of your healthcare organization.