Currently, four strategy working groups are working on the different tracks in the Strategy Formation Phase of Shaping2030. They are well underway: brainstorming on ambitions, strategies and approaches while sharing dilemmas on how to get there where we want to go.
On 3 July, the representatives of the strategy teams and the UT management discussed the ideas and approaches of the working groups. During this day, the four working groups each pitched their first ideas. Afterwards, they discussed these ideas with members of the UT management, to be provided with input for the follow up in the coming months.
About the Strategy Formation Phase of Shaping2030
The assignment that the strategy working groups are working on until September is important and vast, challenging and exciting. Almost 30 people are transforming ambitions from the draft mission and vision (published 14 May) into strategic aims and actions.
Deliverables Track Strategies
The general assignment for the four tracks is:
Using backcasting, you will write a Track Strategy that addresses the following elements:
- What is the desired situation in 2022?
- What is the current situation?
- How can we close the gap between the current and the desired situation? What has highest priority? Consider what we will be doing (new), what we will do differently and what we will not be doing anymore.
- How can we evaluate the change? Please specify what and how.
- What are the consequences for the organization? Think among others in terms of means, persons and risks.
The Executive Board does not expect the tracks to deliver a fully-ready plan. Their deliverables should, above all, give direction and be ambitious. On 30 August the working groups are expected to finalize the concept strategy of their tracks. Based on these track strategies, an overall integral strategy will be written and discussed in several bodies during the up-coming autumn.
Presentations
More information: www.utwente.nl/shaping2030
