The Islamic Strategic Management Institute (ISMI), founded in 2017 in Iran, is a leading international institute in the field of utilizing knowledge, technology, and innovation to advance empowerment in the Islamic world. The Institute, in collaboration with a group of elites and through the use of intelligent infrastructures, constantly strives, by structuring, guiding, and managing intellectually and operationally, to create the conditions for the dynamism of existing capacities in order to achieve the benchmarks of growth and progress.

Utilizing consultation, planning, communications, and strategic management in projects, as well as program-oriented and analytical documentation after the implementation of projects in NGOs, private institutions, governmental, non-governmental, and sovereign organizations, and other entities for the advancement of projects and programs, is an endeavor that facilitates measurability and feedback in programs, fosters growth, and aligns activities with existing upstream documents within organizations, in order to achieve the desired point from the document outlining the current situation. Considering various limitations, including the lack of qualified human resources and financial costs, limited knowledge of the capacities of institutions and agencies inside and outside the country, and the absence of a strategic approach in many organizations and their programs, the need for a processing and operational system in these organizations and their programs, with an Islamic approach, has become clearly evident. Yet, this issue has not been seriously and systematically addressed to date.

Governmental bodies, NGOs, universities, and seminaries, given their scientific, cultural, and international capacities, and considering their organizational capabilities, require the establishment of a missing link that can structure the communications among these institutions in order to implement and guide various projects and programs of the Islamic world. This must be achieved in diverse formats, including cohesive visionary, strategic, and operational structures; drafting documents of current and desired status; program-oriented and analytical documentation of performance reports based on budgets and job descriptions. Such efforts would foster a modern structural and systematic spirit in national and international institutions while ensuring that macro and micro objectives of organizations, with an Islamic strategic approach in projects, are achieved.

The establishment of the Islamic Strategic Management Institute, with a headquarters-oriented, strategic, knowledge-based, technological, and project-driven approach, drawing upon major existing and potential capacities, and as the outcome of several years of specialized work and experience in project and program design with a strategic and Islamic perspective, fills a gap that has not yet been systematically addressed within organizations. Transforming laws into executable projects and programs with an Islamic strategic approach, thereby activating the popular base and devoted officials of society, is an essential and urgent need today. The absence of such a mechanism is strongly felt, and this institute, through its significant activities to date, can, with further cohesion, foster the flourishing of structural perspectives and bring to fruition many objectives that might otherwise be difficult to realize through administrative structures, given the numerous processes and bureaucratic challenges.

 

1. Serving as a consultative and strategic arm for NGOs and other institutions active in the fields of science, culture, economy, management, health, religion, and society at both national and international levels, while observing the regulations governing organizational structures, in the form of think-tank working groups;

2. Establishing, strengthening, and expanding effective and strategic communications within the Islamic world, with an emphasis on the people and grassroots institutions, as well as all entities, including universities, academic and seminary centers, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and NGOs inside and outside the country, alongside cultural and scientific elites;

3. Utilizing the capacities of the institute and the unique standing of scholars, figures, elites, managers, and other influencers in fostering synergistic thinking among the popular base of society inside and outside the country, drawing upon the experiences of the institute’s members;

4. Establishing a union among NGOs and organizations, and creating a comprehensive system of popular management inside and outside the country, corresponding to important and strategic subjects, by leveraging the institute’s rich capacities in the field of projects and programs;

5. Planning and providing necessary guidance for the establishment of grassroots knowledge-based centers, including Qur’anic and Hadith, legal, managerial, commercial, investment, medical, industrial, and trade centers, and offering them necessary consultations for quality strategic management of projects and programs, as well as foresight in their activities;

6. Establishing a comprehensive database of centers, institutions, figures, and other necessities for advancing the supreme objectives of the country and the Islamic world, along with active institutions in various fields;

7. Utilizing the capacities of Islamic venues at the national and international levels to establish permanent bases for disseminating Islamic teachings and project management;

8. Organizing online training courses for applicants in strategic project management in the Islamic world, at various levels;

9. Developing an active, updated, and qualitative model of Islamic projects and programs with strategic and operational approaches, aimed at disseminating pure Islam through grassroots efforts and the purposeful use of NGO capacities, cyberspace, and other institutions.

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