Critical Thinking Exercise:

Considering your organization or an organization that you have researched that has an innovative strategy, what are the key inputs from the environment that is needed to implement the strategy? What steps will one would have to take to be sure the inputs exceed minimum acceptable levels? What would have to be accomplished to ensure your output to the environment is acceptable? How are these two periods of evaluation and control the same and how are they different?

Research exercise:

Find an article or website that provides guidelines for the evaluation and control of an innovative strategy. What do you think of the advice given?

Both exercises must be completed. Each answer should be at least single full page typed. At least two full double-spaced pages of content are expected. Include at least one reference per page in APA format

This paper should be a minimum of 1000 words and follow APA Style requirements (i.e. cover page, in-text citations, and a reference page). Please use a minimum of 2 references for this assignment; you may use the required course texts and recommended supplemental readings, as well as independent research, but please avoid 'crowd-sourced' material from Wikipedia, about.com, and others.