Monitoring, evaluation, and disseminating information from external and internal environments to key people in the firm

Strength — Weakness
Opportunities — Threats

Development of long-range plans for effective management of opportunities and threats in light of corporate strengths and weaknesses

Purpose/reason for organization

Promotes shared expectations Communicates public image Who we are; what we do; what we aspire to

Demands long-term commitment to development of critical resources & Demands firm become a learning organization

An organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge and modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights

Type of strategy

Changes agents through vision for change

The inclusion of a corporations employees on it's board of directors

Economic forces

Technological forces

Political-legal forces

Socialcultural forces

Elements or groups that directly affect a corporation and are affected by it

Never knows what to do, if anything no degree of involvement

Permits officers to make all decisions.
It votes as the officers recommended on action issues

Formally reviews selected issues that officers bring to it's attention

Involved to a limited degree in the performance or review of selected key decisions, indicators, or programs of management

Approves, question, and makes final decisions on mission, strategy, policies, and objectives.
Has active board committees.
Performs fiscal and management audits.

Takes the leading role in establishing and modifying the mission, strategy, objectives, and policies.
It has a very active strategy committee.

Owners & agents risk assessment in conflict