Chapter 10 Outline
Using Diagnostic and Interactive Control Systems
-Managers must rely on employees to achieve financial and non-financial goals.
-The priority and efforts of implementing and communicating strategic goals and measures becomes greater as a company expands.
-Using performance measurement and control systems effectively becomes critical to success.
-2 Types of control systems: Diagnostic and Interactive
-Diagnostic control systems are used as levers to communicate critical performance variables and monitor the implementation of intended strategies.
-Interactive control systems are used to focus organizational attention on strategic uncertainties and provide a lever to fine-tune and alter strategy as competitive markets change.
--Diagnostic control systems are defined as the formal information systems that managers use to monitor organizational outcomes and correct deviations from preset standards of performance.
-Managers can use most performance measurement and control systems diagnostically, including:
-balanced scorecards
-expense center budgets
-project monitoring systems
-brand revenue/market share monitoring systems
-human resource systems
-standard cost-accounting systems
-Why use control systems? Two typical principal reasons for using a system diagnostically: to implement strategy effectively and conserve scarce management attention.
-Implementing strategy- Managers are interested primarily in monitoring diagnostic control systems that report variance information about critical performance about critical performance variables—those factors that must be achieved or implemented successfully for the intended strategy of ...