For your Final Project, you will compile the work you have completed throughout the course to develop a 10- to 15-page marketing plan that supports the goals of a strategic plan for your real-world healthcare organization. The Marketing Plan must contain the following sections:

Executive Summary

• Provide a brief summary of the marketing plan.

Introduction

• State the objectives of the strategic plan.
• Explain how your marketing plan will achieve specific objectives and support the organization’s business plan and strategic plan.

Market Analysis

• Describe the organization’s products and services
• Explain how these products and services meet the needs of the organization’s determined customer base.
• Include relevant aspects from the SWOT analysis you conducted in the second assignment.
• State the competitive advantage your plan provides.

Environmental Analyses

• Internal: Include an analysis of the role of leadership and employees, the communication processes, and the culture of the workplace.
• External: Include an analysis of socioeconomic, legal, ethical, political, and technological factors that could affect the organization.
• Describe how data, based on the quadrants presented in the Boston Consulting Group Matrix, would apply to your marketing plan.

Marketing Mix

• Describe the marketing opportunities and marketing goals for your chosen HCO.
• Explain the marketing strategies that are employed in your plan.    
• Apply market segmentation to your plan based on the target markets you have identified.
• Explain how database marketing was used or why it was not included in your marketing plan.

Plan Evaluation

• Discuss methods of performance evaluation and monitoring that will be used to evaluate the success of your chosen healthcare organization’s marketing plan.
• Explain why reports for a particular timeframe (weekly, monthly, quarterly) would be important and how you would use feedback in these reports to control the future of your marketing.

Conclusion

• Provide a conclusion that summarizes your marketing plan. Include persuasive statements that explain how your marketing plan supports the goals of your chosen healthcare organization’s strategic plan.

* Must utilize at least 10 scholarly sources in APA style.