StraMa Module 9

It is simply an appraisal of how well a business performs.

• Strategic Control

• Strategic Evaluation

• Strategic Operation

• Strategic Advantage

It is the process of determining a program’s utility or direction.

• Budgeting

• Directing

• Evaluation

• Control

The common types of evaluation are the following, except:

• Process evaluation

• Outcome Evaluation

• Impact evaluation

• Control Evaluation

• Output measures

Outcome measures assess the performance or completion of steps taken to achieve desired outcomes.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Process evaluations assess the performance or completion of steps taken to achieve desired outcomes.

Positional advantages are of two types: (1) first movers advantages and (2) reinforces.

• True

• False

There are four major types of barriers in evaluation.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

There are five major types of barriers in evaluation:

The limits of control, difficulties in measurement, resistance to evaluation, tendency to rely on short-term assessment, and relying on efficiency versus effectiveness.

The following are basic types of strategic controls, except:

• Premise

• Predicted

• Implementation

• Strategic Surveillance

• Special Alert Control

The essence of strategic control is to continually assess the changing environment to uncover events that may significantly affect the course of an organization’s _

• Goal

• Strategy

• Policies

• Action

The basic issue in all evaluation should be that control should be dictated by strategy

• Absolutely!

• Not!