Take My Liberty BUSI 691 Class

Liberty's catalog describes BUSI 691 as the capstone for all healthcare administration majors, integrating concepts, techniques and knowledge from every area of the field, with strategic management studied in theory and then rigorously applied.

Walston's fifteen chapters run across the eight weeks, two to three in most weeks and one in a few, moving from what strategy means in healthcare through analysis and choice to execution and control.

Week one carries the checklist, class introductions, the graduate business program assessment and Forum 1, worth 100. Weeks two and three each bring a Group Assurance of Learning Exercise worth 100 with a peer evaluation worth 50.

Week four is Forum 2. Week five carries the Individual Assurance of Learning Exercise, worth 100, and the Competitive Market Benchmark Analysis Exercise, worth 50. Week six is Forum 3.

Week seven brings the third group exercise and its peer evaluation, and week eight closes with Forum 4.

In the published guide, the 1,010 points split into 400 for forums, 300 for group exercises, 150 for peer evaluations, 150 for individual work and 10 for the checklist.

BUSI 691 is taken as one strategic argument carried through eight weeks. Early on, the writer gets to know the organizations your exercises and forums will discuss, whether a case from the course or a real hospital, so each item builds on the last.

Forum threads are long and applied. A thread on mission and vision might test a health system's stated mission against where it actually invests; one on environmental analysis might use PESTEL and Porter's five forces to explain why a regional hospital is losing outpatient surgery to an ambulatory center.

For each group exercise, your group divides the analysis. The writer prepares your assigned share in the group's format and tone, and you bring it to the group, which makes its own decisions.

The individual exercise applies Walston's frameworks to a strategic question in full: situation, analysis, options, recommendation and an execution plan with measures.

The benchmark analysis compares competitors in a defined market on measures such as market share, service lines, quality ratings and price transparency data, then explains what the comparison means for strategy.

The program assessment and the peer evaluations are yours, and you post or submit every item yourself.

BUSI 691 work goes to a writer who has worked in healthcare strategy or planning, as a strategic planning director, a business development lead or a consultant to health systems, and holds an MBA or an MHA.

That writer has built real plans: market assessments, service line strategies, affiliation analyses and balanced scorecards, so the capstone reads like a plan an executive team could review.

They know the data behind a market analysis, including CMS Care Compare, state hospital discharge data, American Hospital Association statistics and public filings from nonprofit systems, and they cite it accurately.

A second reviewer reads every item for logic, evidence and APA 7.

Group shares are matched in tone to your teammates' drafts when you share them, so the group's submission reads as one document.

Your identity and employer stay with the coordinator, and nothing about your workplace is named.

The first problem is integration. A capstone expects finance, operations, HR, quality, law and marketing to appear together in strategic reasoning, and many students fall back on one area they know well.

The second is the weight of each item. With forums worth 100 points each, a thin thread costs as much as a full assignment in other courses.

The third is group work. Three group exercises in the first seven weeks depend on classmates in different time zones and schedules, and late or uneven contributions affect everyone's grade.

The fourth is the benchmark analysis, which needs real data on real competitors. Students who have never pulled hospital quality ratings or market share figures often lose time finding them.

The fifth is execution. Strategy papers that stop at a recommendation without saying who will do what, by when and how success will be measured miss the half of strategy that Walston stresses.

Final-term timing adds its own pressure, with job changes, graduation forms and comprehensive program assessments arriving in the same weeks.

If the capstone is handed over before it opens, Forum 1 is ready on the first day, leaving you to complete the checklist, your introduction and the program assessment.

Group shares reach you within two or three days of your group dividing the work, leaving time for the group to assemble and decide.

The individual exercise and the benchmark analysis arrive about five days before week five closes. Forums 2, 3 and 4 arrive several days before their windows.

The quote lists four forums, the individual exercise, the benchmark analysis and your three group shares, each with its own share of the figure. Peer evaluations, the program assessment and group decisions are not on it.

Already a few weeks in? The plan covers what is left and picks up the thread of your earlier posts and exercises.

Since this is the last course in the degree, students often ask for each item a little earlier than usual, which the plan allows.