About us

Formed in September 2010, the Strategic Planning and Change teams were brought together to focus on the things that matter most to the University - that our strategies, intelligence and data give a clear steer for where to invest in change, and in turn that these changes will help improve our performance.  Combining Strategic Planning with Change teams is an innovation that other universities are now starting to follow.

Our Vision

To be at the leading edge of defining the University’s future, helping make visions reality.

As a service we aspire to be renowned internally as a top quality service-provider, and recognised externally for the standards we set.

We ‘plan’

• Develop strategies and setting our goals and targets
• Direct and support business planning processes
• Manage processes that aim to identify and manage risk

We work with staff and stakeholders to develop the strategic plan, ensuring that we help reach and surpass our goals and mitigate risks along the way.

We ‘do’

• Manage delivery of complex projects
• Project management and change training
• Business and process review 
• Drive increased efficiency
• Facilitate critical workshops
• Provide advice, guidance and coaching about strategic change

We work with colleagues from across the University to help them deliver complex, significant changes, from changing working practices and organisational development, to implementing innovative business systems.

We ‘review’

• Evaluate performance and trends
• Analyse quantitative and qualitative data and intelligence
• Research new solutions to improving performance

Together we use performance monitoring tools to keep understand performance across the key themes of research, student experience and sustainability.