Where Does Shouldice Compete?

1. *How does Shouldice compete? Identify at least three characteristics of Shouldice’s operations that contribute* to its competitiveness. Shouldice Hospital Limited seems to be a well organized Hospital with a unique technique to operate hernias. In this hospital only external hernias were operated. This is the mayor fact for their success. The doctor´s, the nurse´s and even the design of the facility is only targeted of the patient’s needs that have or had a hernia surgery. To reduce the time of a patients stay, the doctor´s are well skilled in surgical intervention to eliminate hernia. Shouldice´s doctors perform 600 and more operations per year and they are teaching each other to encourage a group effort for nearly absolute