有效撰寫英文商業策略 (Writing Effective Business Strategies)

Exercise 664

Describing Organizational or Technical Needs
(描述組織或科技需求)

I. Pre-Listening Exercise
II. Listening Exercise
III. Post-Listening Exercise


I. Pre-Listening Exercise [Top]

Check the meanings of the following words and expressions:
  • budgetary balance
  • sustainable development
  • scrutinize closely
  • outsource diagnosis operations
  • effectively controlling overhead
  • organizational rearrangement
  • operational cost reductions
  • expanded market share
  • analytic hierarchy process
  • renovation ????

II. Listening Exercise [Top]
Listen to the conversation by pressing the "Play" button and then answering the following questions. Press the "Final score" button to check your quiz results.


1. What is essential to enhancing the division of both labor and management among specialized departments?
A. enhancing the quality of medical care and competitiveness
B. effectively controlling overhead and, more importantly, establishing a mechanism for sharing in capital and business-related risks
C. generating revenue from such outsourcing under the Global Budget System

2. How many public hospitals that operate under the Department of Health?
A. 25
B. 46
C. 34

3. What severely restricts the competitiveness of public hospitals that outsource general operations?
A. the inability to examine thoroughly the feasibility of generating revenue from such outsourcing
B. the inability to construct a deluxe health examination center to outsource diagnosis operations
C. the inability to provide additional budgeting for construction equipment, materials and personnel management

4. How can medical institutions help to maintain the quality of medical treatment without increasing hospital revenues?
A. by reducing the annual investment by more than 10%
B. by outsourcing to companies that provide health care
C. by creating a budgetary balance in daily operations

5. Why do administrators scrutinize closely business models applied to daily operations?
A. the availability of advanced health examinations that are outsourced to private medical units
B. operational expenses of a hospital, including investment in equipment, personnel costs and costs of utilities
C. increasingly fierce competition among hospitals and the need for sustainable development

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III. Post-Listening Exercise [Top]

Write a paragraph that makes an inference from statistics regarding a product or service by following this structure:

1. Briefly introduce a technology sector or market niche.
簡述一個科技部門或市場利基
2. Describe an external or internal factor affecting that sector or niche.
內外部影響科技部門或市場利基的因素
3. Introduce a specific problem(s) that hinders development of that sector or niche.
描述一個阻礙科技部門或市場利基發展的問題
4. State the technical or marketing need that must be addressed to resolve this problem.
說明必須解決這個問題的科技或市場需求