Exam 7: Developing Strategy, Building Capacity, and Managing Risk

Chief executive officers may not allow clients to read the strategic plan.

Strategies are the directions an organization will pursue with respect to strategic issues.

Construct a basic, generic strategic planning model to a nonprofit organization that you are familiar with.

Once a strategic plan is written, it should be used to stimulate wider discussion throughout the organization.

Which of La Piana's three levels of strategies is addressed first?

The mission statement explains the reason an organization exists.

Explain how strategic management links strategy with implementation.

______ are functions an organization is required to perform per its charter.

Explain the three basic elements that effective planning begins with.

______ are areas in which organizations need to take action.

Strategic planning is not a substitute for ______.

What are specific, quantified targets that represent steps toward accomplishing goals?

The detailed work of producing an operational plan is primarily done by the ______.

An organization's capacity elements may not be both visible and invisible.

A nonprofit chief executive officer (CEO) is holding a meeting with volunteers to solicit their ideas for organizational improvement. The CEO is applying which type of capacity as described by Letts?

Volunteers are what part of a nonprofit's system capacity?

Who created a numerical organizational capacity assessment tool?

Older nonprofit organizations are less likely than younger organizations to focus on ______.

Bryson defines a process that helps to determine organizational "what, why, and how" as ______.

The vision statement is ______.