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Strategy Implementation and Strategic control

Strategy Implementation and Strategic control

Q In order to properly implement a strategic plan, organizations use structure, various control systems (budgets, variance analysis, policies and procedures, company rules), and culture. Let us revisit General Mills and determine the relative effectiveness of the company’s strategic controls. Choose two implementation controls, and discuss whether or not you believe the controls you've selected effectively support the company's strategic choices. Be sure to defend your answer (critical thinking is required)!

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The strategic control of General Mills is suitable, still the company has several loopholes and all of these drawbacks should be taken care of. On the other hand, it has been observed that the first implementation control is to control the behavior of the employees in order to align their behavior with the shared values and goals of General Mills. The second implementation control is to maintain a suitable environmental stability. This company is struggling to reducing its carbon footprint. It is the responsibility of the higher management to come up with suitable strategic control policy for focusing on the environmental stability for minimizing the environmental waste footprint in a proper manner (General Mills: Climate policy, 2020). The strategic controls of this company involve suitable decisions on making a perfect budget for business operations. Both of these discussed strategic control implementations can be aligned with the strategic choices of General Mills. General Mills is constantly growing and it focuses on existing potential strategies.