Strategic Controls and Monitoring Tools

Strategic Controls and Monitoring Tools

Organizational leaders must be aware of external forces that may impact their organization. Strategic controls and monitoring tools allow leaders to evaluate these forces and develop tactical objectives to limit negative consequences. For this Team Discussion, you explore how strategic controls, monitoring tools, and tactical objectives might be used to address issues impacting health care organizations.

To prepare:

In Week 1, the Instructor assigned to your team a scenario that involves a health care organization with an issue requiring an evaluation of the organization’s strategic plan. Reflect on the issue and, as a team, begin identifying and discussing evaluation or monitoring tools that would be useful to address this issue. Be sure to consider the following:

What strategic controls (e.g., promise control, implementation control, strategic surveillance, and special alert control) might you use and why?

What monitoring tools (e.g., Gantt Chart, Balanced Scorecard, Dashboard, etc.) might you use and why?

What are two tactical objectives that the organization might leverage to effectively address operations requirements and limit negative consequences?

By Day 4

Reach a consensus of how the issue can be addressed using strategic controls, monitoring tools, and tactical objectives. As a team, draft content to post in your Group Discussion Board area.

By Day 5

Post the final content in the main area of the Discussion thread. Select one team member to post this.

By Day 7

Individually respond to at least two other teams in one or more of the following ways:

Provide recommendations for another team’s content.

Offer insights on how your team’s content supports another team’s content.