Your organization now moves from planning to action. In this business of development, nothing is carved in stone. New approaches, trends, and changes in the economy all put us in an always-changing environment. It is important that you recognize trends, both locally and globally. When rural communities did not recognize the retail-shopping trend towards urban malls, they were devastated when change left them without customers and not enough time to fight back.
Evaluation is the process of seeing how things are going and to change the process if needed.
We talked earlier of the management process steps of planing, funding, organizing, doing, evaluating, correcting, and doing again. This is a never-ending chain. Always be prepared to drop programs that do not work and start new ones if needed, or to change existing ones. Quarterly progress reviews are a good idea for your board. Avoid sacred cows or pet projects that continue to exist in spite of being ineffective.