Questions

Monitoring and evaluation

• Does your board have its finger on the pulse? Is it satisfied it is monitoring organisational and chief executive performance effectively?

Performance measures

• Are performance expectations and performance measures well expressed?

Scanning the environment

• Are you tracking activity or results?
• Do you consider your board is ‘wide awake’?
• Does it systematically review what is happening in its wider environment?

Tools for strategic thinking

• Does your board have a clear sense of the matters it should consider strategic?
• Does it know how to actively use a range of strategic thinking tools to remain focused on the future?