How the Founders\' may have used strategic planning.

1. The American Experiment
A Study of the Founders’ Republic
Strategic Planning
• What do we want to
achieve?
• How do we get
there?

2. Strategic Planning Phases
Initial formulation
• Formulation
• Development
• Implementation
• Evaluation
Continued improvement
(repeat)

3. Strategy Formulation

Vision statement

Mission
statement

Define
organizational
values

4. Vision Statement
A statement to inspire stakeholders to
engage and accomplish what the
organization intends to do, for whom, and
what will it look like.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their creator with
certain unalienable rights…”

5. The American Experiment
A Study of the Founders’ Republic
Vision statement:
To implement an educational service that will
revive reverence for and understanding of
the United States Constitution, thereby
insuring our liberty and unalienable rights.

6. Mission Statement
• How will the organization achieve the
vision?
• What makes us unique, valuable, and
worthwhile?
“That to secure these rights, governments
are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the
governed”

7. U.S. Constitution
“We the people of the united states, in
order to form a more perfect union,
establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity, do ordain
and establish this constitution for the
united states of America.”

8. The American Experiment
A Study of the Founders’ Republic
Mission statement:
To serve the general public by delivering
educational programs concerning the
current application of our Constitution as it
compares to the Founders’ political
philosophy.

9. Define Organizational Values
• How will the organization conduct itself?
• What will remain constant?
• What will we demonstrate each day?
“…That among these are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.”

10. The American Experiment
Organizational Values/Natural Rights
Life
The right to life is a self-evident truth. Life is a
gift from the creator to the individual. We
recognize the dignity of each individual.

11. The American Experiment
Organizational Values/Natural Rights
Liberty
Human liberty, having been endowed to all of
us equally by our Creator, is a part of our
human nature. Our sacred right to liberty is
therefore unalienable and only limited by
the equal rights of others.

12. The American Experiment
Organizational Values/Natural Rights
The Pursuit of Property
We need freedom to shape our future; we
need profit to remain free. We willingly
accept absolute, complete, and total
responsibility for our actions and welcome
the challenge to grow.

13. The American Experiment
Organizational Values/Responsibilities
The Golden Rule
God’s law is right reason. When perfectly
understood it is called wisdom. When
applied by government in regulating human
relations it is called justice. Justice is
impossible without the principle’s of God’s
law. Do unto others as you would have
them do unto you, and thou shalt love thy
neighbors as thyself.

14. The American Experiment
A Study of the Founders’ Republic
Second Principle:
A free people cannot survive under a
republican constitution unless they remain
virtuous and morally Strong.

15. Strategy Development

SWOT analysis
Strengths, Weakness,
Opportunities, Threats

Long Term Goals (3 to 5
years)

Identify strategies

16. Strategy Implementation

Short Term Objectives (< 1 year)

Action Plans

Allocate Resources

Motivate Staff

17. Strategy Evaluation

Review
strategies

Measure
performance

18. How Do We Know?

Was this what the vision looked like?

Was the mission accomplished?

What have you become?

Corrective action?