2. PRAYER
God our Father,
We come to you in our need
To ask your protection against the COVID-19 Virus,
That has claimed lives And has affected many.
We pray for your grace
For the people tasked with studying the nature and
cause
Of this virus and its disease And of stemming the
tide of its transmission.
Guide the hands and minds of medical experts
That they may minister to the sick
With competence and compassion,
And of those governments and private agencies
That must find cure and solution to this epidemic.
We pray for those afflicted
May they be restored to health soon.
Grant us the grace
To work for the good of all
And to help those in need.
Grant this through our Lord, Jesus Christ, your
Son, Who lives and reigns with You, in the unity
of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. Amen.
Mary Help of all Christians, pray for us.
St. Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.
St. Rock, pray for us.
St. Lorenzo Ruiz, pray for us.
St. Pedro Calungsod, pray for us.
ORATIO IMPERATA
on the threat from COVID-19
4. RECAP
Even the best-laid plans can go awry—
strategic planning teams know this as much
as anyone. Carefully crafted strategies may
not necessarily lead you astray, but they will
almost always change and evolve during
their standard three- to five-year
implementation. It’s simply a fact that your
internal and external environments will
change and affect your strategy as it’s being
implemented. For this reason, it’s incredibly
important to create systems of evaluation
and control to monitor your organization’s
performance.
5. RECAP
Establishing a control process as part of strategic
management allows you to immediately course-correct if
planned strategies cause unintended or unexpected results.
What’s on your mind?
6. RECAP
Strategic control
is concerned with tracking a strategy as it is
being implemented, detecting problems or
changes in its underlying premises and making
necessary adjustments. The most important
purpose of strategic control is to help top
achieve organizational goals through monitoring
and evaluating the strategic management
process.
7. RECAP
Premise Control
Strategic Surveillance
Implementation Control
Special Alert Control
TYPES OF STRATEGIC
CONTROL
The various components of the
strategic control process generate
answers to these two questions:
1.Has the strategy been
implemented as planned?
2.Based on the observed results,
does the strategy need to be
changed or adjusted?
8. This type of control is a step-by-step assessment of
implementation activities. It focuses on the incremental actions and
phases of strategic implementation, and monitors events and
results as they unfold. Is each action or project happening as
planned? Are the proper resources and funds being allocated for
each step? This process continually questions the basic direction of
your strategy to ensure it’s the right one.
9. Monitoring Strategic Thrusts Or
Projects
This is the assessment of specific
projects or thrusts that have been
created to drive the larger strategy. This
early feedback will help you decide
whether to continue onward with the
strategy as is or pause to make
adjustments.
Reviewing Milestones
During strategic planning, you likely
identified important points in the
implementation process. When these
milestones are reached, your organization
will reassess the strategy and its
relevance. Milestones could be based on
timeframes, such as the end of a quarter,
or on significant actions, such as large
budget or resource allocations.
10. When something unexpected happens, a special
alert control is mobilized. This is a reactive process,
designed to execute a fast and thorough strategy
assessment in the wake of an extreme event that
impacts an organization. The event could be
anything from a natural disaster or product recall to
a competitor acquisition. In some cases, a special
alert control calls for the formation of a crisis
team—usually comprising members of the strategic
planning and leadership teams—and in others, it
merely means activating a predetermined
contingency plan.
Can be exercised through the formulation of
contingency strategies and assigning the
responsibility of handling unforeseen events to
crisis management teams.
