The document discusses sharpening organizational strategy. It emphasizes the importance of conducting an accurate diagnosis of challenges, developing a guiding policy to address challenges, and implementing coherent actions. It recommends convening a task force to analyze the effectiveness of the current strategy, identify where the organization is in its lifecycle, understand key challenges, and explore options for moving the organization forward through a new guiding policy and initiatives that will implement the policy. The goal is to develop a renewed strategy that is fresh and effective at guiding the organization from its current state to where it wants to be.

1. Sharpening Organizational Strategy
James C. Galvin, Ed.D.
May 1, 2013

2. The industry changed

3. Government regulations changed

4. The channel changed

5. The customers changed

6. The context for most ministries is
changing rapidly and in surprising ways

7. Yet our organizations tend to keep
doing the same things the same way

8. Your role is to bring back a new way of
thinking about organizational strategy

9. Your current organizational strategy
has become dull

10. Your current organizational strategy
has become dull

11. Your current organizational strategy
has become dull

12. You want a renewed strategy that is
fresh and effective

13. Convene a special task force to
sharpen your organizational strategy
Accurate diagnosis
Guiding policy
Coherent actions

14. The problem with most strategic plans
is they contain so little real strategy

15. Strategic planning templates don’t work
Vision
Mission
Core Values
Critical Success Factors
Goals/Objectives

16. Strategy is how you get from where you
are to where you want to be
How to
get
there
Where you want
to go
Where
you are

17. Many ministry leaders cannot articulate
their organizational strategy

18. All ministries have a default
organizational strategy

19. Good strategy includes diagnosis,
guiding policy, coherent actions

20. Diagnosis is a penetrating analysis of
the challenges you are facing

21. Guiding policy is the overall approach
you will take to address the challenges

22. Coherent actions are the key initiatives
that will implement the guiding policy

23. Convene a special task force to
sharpen your organizational strategy
Accurate diagnosis
Guiding policy
Coherent actions

24. Diagnosis is a penetrating analysis of
the challenges you are facing

25. Analyze the effectiveness of your
current organizational strategy

26. Identify where you are at on the
organizational life cycle

27. What are the greatest challenges your
organization is facing?

28. Convene a special task force to
sharpen your organizational strategy
Accurate diagnosis
Guiding policy
Coherent actions

29. Guiding policy is the overall approach
you will take to address the challenges

30. What are your options for moving your
organization forward?

31. Case: Agape Adoption Agency

32. Case: Women in Leadership

33. Case: Cabrini Green Clinic

34. Case: Camp Wannabe

35. Case: Mild Middle Judicatory

36. Case: Inspirational Publishing

37. Case: Generic Christian University

38. Use the innovation radar tool to think
creatively about new options

39. Which potential guiding policy has the
most promise for your situation?

40. Convene a special task force to
sharpen your organizational strategy
Accurate diagnosis
Guiding policy
Coherent actions

41. Coherent actions are the key initiatives
that will implement the guiding policy

42. Organizational strategy that has been
sharpened implies change

43. Which possible initiatives have the
most potential to move you forward?

44. Summarize your strategic plan on one
side of one sheet of paper

45. Convene a special task force to
sharpen your organizational strategy
Accurate diagnosis
Guiding policy
Coherent actions

46. Build your team of staff, board, donors,
volunteers, dynamic strategic thinkers

47. Your organization will function better
when you sharpen the strategy

48. So what do you think?
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