Strategic control can be defined as process of monitoring as to whether to various strategies adopted by the organization are helping its internal environment to be matched with the external environment. Strategic control processes allow managers to evaluate a company's program from a critical long-term perspective. This involves a detailed and objective analysis of a company's organization and its ability to maximize its strengths and market opportunities.
There are four types of strategic control as follows:
- Premise control: is designed to check systematically and continuous whether or not the premises set during the planning and implementation process are still valid
- Implementation control: is designed to assess whether the overall strategy result associated with incremental steps and actions that implement overall strategy.
- Strategic surveillance: It is designed to monitor a broad range of events inside and outside the company to threaten the course of firm's strategy.
- Special alert control: is the need to thoroughly and often rapidly reconsider the firm's basic strategy based on a sudden unexpected event.