Strategic Vision

& Mission
September 2018
Focus
What are we talking about here?

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 Overview

Leadership & influence on climate and culture

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Why Context?

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Around 2005: We all live in Dell-Wal*Mart-eBay-Google
World!

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Around 2005: We all live in Dell-Wal*Mart-eBay-Google
World!

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And Sub
Sahara Africa?
Not an analysis, nor
comparison – just showing that like
the rest of the world we worked hard…

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 Sub Sahara Africa – A Few “Snapshots”
2007
a. Feb 6, China vowed to forge a partnership of equals
with South Africa;
b. Feb 21, South Africa's finance minister painted an
upbeat picture of the economy, forecasting five-
percent annual growth to the end of the decade as he
posted the first budget surplus in recent memory.
2008
a. May 18, In South Africa mobs killed at least six people
and injured 50 in anti-foreigner violence;
b. Sep 12, A South African judge ruled that prosecutors
were wrong to charge ANC President Jacob;
c. Sep 20, South African President Thabo Mbeki agreed
to resign after the ruling party ordered him to step
down.
2010
a. Apr 8, The World Bank approved a $3.75 billion loan
to help South Africa build a coal-fired power plant;
b. Jun 8, Open Gautrain;
c. Jun 11, The World Cup kicked off;
d. Aug 16, South African police fired on strikers at the
Lonmin platinum mine leaving 34 dead’
2014
a. Jan 29, South Africa's Reserve Bank announced a
shock rise of half a percentage point in its main
interest rate;
2016
a. Onwards… State capture, crime, economic
tightening…
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 Sub Sahara Africa – A Few “Snapshots”

2008 2018
a. Jun 1, In Liberia at least eight people suffocated at a. 21 June, Gambia national police chief resigns after
an overcrowded stadium during a soccer match protest shootings;
between Liberia and Gambia. b. 30 June, Gambia's president announces major
2009 Cabinet reshuffle.
a. Nov 22, Iranian Pres. Ahmadinejad arrived in c. Sept 5, Gambians use plastic waste to make
Gambia for a 24-hour working visit aimed at beautiful artwork.
fostering relations between the Islamic republic and
the West African nation.
2010
a. Nov 22, A Gambian Foreign Ministry statement was
issued giving Iranian government officials 48 hours
to leave the country.
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 Sub Sahara Africa – A Few “Snapshots”

2007 2017
a. Dec 1, A deadline for Ethiopia and Eritrea to agree a. UN cultural agency unanimously decided to put the
on the physical demarcation of their border expired African nation's capital city of Asmara on the
amid escalating tension between the two nations, UNESCO World Heritage list.
leaving the frontier only delineated on maps. 2018
2008 Jun 6,
a. Jan 30, The UN Security Council renewed the a. Ethiopia reopens embassy in Eritrea as relations
mandate of the struggling UN peace force on the warm.
Eritrea-Ethiopia border for six months;
b. Jul 30, The UN Security Council voted to end an 8- Sept 9,
year-long peacekeeping mission between Eritrea a. Ethiopian, Eritrean leaders officially open their
and Ethiopia. border.

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 Sub Sahara Africa – A Few “Snapshots”
2007
a. Jan 10, Zimbabwe’s central statistics office (CSO)
said inflation had hit a new record high of 1,281%;
b. Mar 23, Australia called on South Africa to pressure
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to quit.
2008
a. Mar 29, Zimbabweans lined up for hours to vote in
elections that present President Robert Mugabe with
his toughest political challenge in 28 years in power;
b. Mar 30, Zimbabwe's opposition said it had won the
most crucial election since independence, but
President Robert Mugabe's government warned
premature victory claims would be seen as an
attempted coup.
2017
a. Nov, Following tension, protests and army take over
Pres Mugabe agrees to resign.
2018
a. Jul, Mr. Mnangagwa and his party win Zimbabwe's
landmark July 30 election?
b. Sept, Zimbabwe president names new finance
minister;
c. Sept, Most decorated African Olympian with a record
7 medals is Zim's new minister of sports.
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And Sub
Sahara Africa?
Not an analysis, nor comparison – just showing
that like the rest of the world we worked

while the world is

hard…

shifting beneath our feet…

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 And …

a. iPhone
b. Facebook
c. Google launched open source operating system called
Android
d. Jeff Bezos gave us the world’s first e-book reader, the
Kindle
e. IBM launched the world’s first cognitive computer
called Watson

2007
2008

f. In 2007, three design students decided to rent out

their three spare air mattresses to and founded
Airbnb
g. Steve Jobs opened the App Store. And the demand on
AT&T’s network over the next six years grew 100,000
percent
h. Dramatic lowering of cost if sequencing the genome
i. Cost of data coming down, and with it the rise of the
social network.
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Where does it leave us?

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And Africa ?

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Africa…

a. Africa = 1 billion people;

b. More mobile users than the US
and Europe;
c. 5 million university graduates
every year;
d. Predicted average GDP growth
per year of 7 % for the next 20
years;
e. 100 plus million monthly active
Facebook users.
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 Yet…
a. Approximately 842 million people suffer from
hunger worldwide
b. Approximately 9 million people die of world
hunger each year; more than the death toll for
malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis combined in
2012.
c. 2011 poor nutrition accounted for 45 percent
of deaths for children under five.
https://borgenproject.org/15-world-hunger-
statistics/
a. Some 1.1 billion people in developing
countries have inadequate access to water
b. 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation
c. Almost two in three people lacking access
to clean water survive on less than $2 a
day, with one in three living on less than $1
a day
d. More than 660 million people without
sanitation live on less than $2 a day, and
more than 385 million on less than $1 a day
http://www.globalissues.org/article/601/water-
and-development
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So we ask again – Why Context

1. The first task in strategy

2. “Dome of awareness”
3. Technique not so important
4. Alignment critical
5. Making it accessible
6. Engrained
7. “Chinese drip”
8. Not only inward looking.

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 Overview

Leadership & influence on climate and culture

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 Vision & Mission

Vision Mission

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 Vision

"We shall build good ships here

- at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must.
But always good ships!”

Collis Potter Huntington. 1886

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 Vision

“A South Africa in which all our people

have access to lifelong learning.”

“The web’s most convenient, secure and

cost effective payments solution.”

“To meet the postal needs of today,

without compromising the future.”

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 Vision
Future orientation

Product & services link -

general

Connection (who or for

whom)

Aspiration

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 Vision

Above all – if it is only words…

Get something better to do.

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 Vision & Mission

Vision Mission

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 Mission

To dramatically coordinate principle-cantered paradigms so that

we may assertively network high standards in methods of
empowerment to exceed customer expectations.
Dilbert mission statement generator
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 Mission

To dramatically coordinate principle-cantered paradigms so that

we may assertively network high standards in methods of
empowerment to exceed customer expectations.
Dilbert mission statement generator
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Mission

"The mission of Wendy's is to

deliver superior quality
products and services for our
customers and communities
through leadership, innovation,
and partnerships."

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Mission

"The mission of Wendy's is to

deliver superior quality and
healthy fast food."

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Uber

“Evolving the way the world

moves. By seamlessly
connecting riders to drivers
through our apps, we make
cities more accessible opening
up more possibilities for riders
and more business for drivers”

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Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)

“Providing medical aid to

those most in need regardless
of their race, religion, or
political affiliation.”

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Save the Children

“To inspire breakthroughs in

the way the world treats
children and to achieve
immediate and lasting change
in their lives”

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 But how do we do it?

Video Simon Sinek

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 But how do we do it?

a. Why (is there a need for

me/us to be here?);
b. How do we go about fulfilling
that need (qualitative
approach);
c. What do we do in fulfilling
that need (product & services
mix)?

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 Overview

Leadership & influence on climate and culture

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 Strategy =
Approach & Direction
Strategy = Approach & Direction
Definition of Measures (Metrics) Targets
Victory
Sustainability
Stakeholders
Internal Processes
and Systems
People

Performance contracting
 Strategic Questions (not exhaustive)

Sustainability

Stakeholders

Internal Processes and

Systems

People
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Leadership & influence on climate and culture

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Values

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 Values

Culture Difficult – evolve

over time
Values So we start here and
Norms work outwards.

Conventions
Other artefacts

Leadership style
Almost always a disconnect between
Walking the talk “living it”
espoused and in action
Psychological climate
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Values

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 Values

Hospital Petro-chemical Hospitality

care

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Values

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Conclusion (Putting it all together)

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Important Change Models (Readiness Model)

Readiness…
Ready, Willing & Able
Important Change Models (Readiness Model)
Important Change Models (Readiness Model)
 Selected References:

• http://ecorner.stanford.edu/videos/1172/Dont-Write-a-Mission-Statement-Write-a-Mantra

• THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE: A CONVERSATION WITH THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Washington, D.C. Thursday, December 15, 2016

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8lBMFw2xFA

• https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/mar/17/access-to-drinking-water-world-six-infographics

• http://www.globalissues.org/article/601/water-and-development

• https://www.education.gov.za/

• https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action

• https://bigthink.com/#

• http://www.100people.org/

• https://visual.ly/community/infographic/economy/making-sense-financial-mess-cypher-13

• http://www.timelines.ws/countries/SOUTHAFRICA.HTML

• Public sector, disrupted How disruptive innovation can help government achieve more for less: Deloitte 2012

• TRENDS FOR THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF FUTURE-LOOKING RESEARCH IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 2014 (EU Funded)

• The Crisis of the South African Public Service The Journal of the helen Suzman Foundation | ISSUE 74 | November 2014

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