Strategic control, the last step of the strategic management process, consists of monitoring and evaluating the strategic management process as a whole to ensure that it is operating properly. Strategic control focuses on the activities involved in environmental analysis, organizational direction, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and strategic control itself—checking that all steps of the strategic management process are appropriate, compatible, and functioning properly.³⁴ Strategic control is a special type of organizational control, a topic that is featured in Chapters 17 and 18.