ORG703: Strategic Management

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Course Description

In this course students will create a strategic plan for a nonprofit, for-profit or ministry organization, with a particular focus on nonprofits. Students will learn to conduct stakeholder analysis and collect and analyze feedback from stakeholders to inform strategic planning. Students will analyze all the functional domains of an organization and synthesize into priorities in a strategic plan including: Accounting, Organizational/Human Resources/Board Development, Cross-Cultural Management, Social Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Fundraising and Christian Values Integration. Students will synthesize a major doctoral project combining theoretical and practical research related to strategic planning, specifically for your context.

Course Outcomes

  1. Conduct stakeholder analysis and collect and analyze feedback from stakeholders to inform strategic planning.
  2. Synthesize a biblical philosophy of ministry for your organization and use that to guide mission, values and all aspects of strategy.
  3. Analyze all the functional domains of an organization and synthesize into priorities in a strategic plan, including: Accounting, Organizational/Human Resources/Board Development, Cross-Cultural Management, Social Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Fundraising and Christian Values Integration.
  4. Create a strategic plan for a nonprofit, for-profit, or ministry organization.

DOLI Degree Program Outcomes

Degree outcomes are the overall skills and knowledge we expect you will have after successfully completing a degree program at City Vision University. This course supports the following program outcomes, marked with an (I) for Introduce, (D) for Develop and an (M) for Mastery.  After completing the degree, you will be able to do the following in each of the listed domains:

  1. Research methods. Apply action research methods to practical research topics in the field.
  2. Diffusion of Innovation. Utilize technology and relational networking to help diffuse innovations within a community of practice.
  3. Values Alignment. To develop a theological vision and to align your organization’s strategy, culture and systems with that vision to avoid secularization and mission drift.
  4. Strategy. To develop a synthesis to integrate a wide range of business skills into a strategic plan for starting or growing an organization. (M)
  5. Social Entrepreneurship. Develop strategies and plans to effectively use technology and innovation to achieve organizational goals.
  6. Action Research Project. Synthesize action research with theory and practice to solve a practical challenge facing your organization and/or the larger field.

Broad Institutional Doctoral Outcomes

  • I1. Knowledge (Head). Apply a wide range of tools to help solve society’s great problems by shifting from a single lens/tool/discipline to a multiple lens, multifaceted Biblical understanding of reality. (D)
  • I2. Skills (Hands). Develop the skills you need for the next position in your development as a leader by shifting from mastery & understanding of a division in an organization to a comprehensive systemic mastery/understanding needed to lead across the organization. (I)
  • I3. Attitudes/Character (Heart). Develop the character and discipline needed to step into greater leadership roles by losing the bias of your old position to gain broader perspective and intellectual humility needed to accelerate your commitment to lifelong learning.

Syllabus

Course Materials & Tuition 

Allison, M., & Kaye, J. (2015). Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations: A Practical Guide for Dynamic Times (3rd edition). Hoboken: Wiley. ISBN: 1118768140$40.00
Required Secondary Book (see below)$30.00
Tuition$1000.00
Total Cost of Course:$1070.00

    Required Secondary Book for Doctoral Students. Doctoral students are required to select a second textbook. You may pick from the following:

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