From Foresight to Strategic Plan

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From Foresight to Strategic Plan
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A complex web of change
Demographics
Economic trends
Values lifestyles
New technologies
Energy natural resources
DCU and its operating environment
Competitors and new approaches
Legislation
World events
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Increasing uncertainty
unpredictability
Society
Science
Socially Accountable
Trans-disciplinary
Problem-solving
complexity
uncertainty
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Making our own future
Past
Present
Future
Strategy Decisions
Strategy decisions today can be strengthened by
correctly interpreting information about the
future. Conversely we can also make our own
future.
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Foresight process
DCU wide consultation Brief futures review
Expert interviews
What key issues / trends will shape DCUs future?
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Scenarios
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Storylines
DCU within these futures Foresight Report
launched
The route to the future roadmap and waypoints
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Constantly updating foresight strategy
environmental scanning
Develop the Foresight opportunities and inform
strategic planning
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Mission DCU fosters creativity,
develops knowledge and pioneers innovation
Values Pro-active, creative, engaged and
inclusive
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Values
DCU is pro-active, creative, engaged and inclusive
Within a community which is stimulating,
collaborative, supportive and collegial
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Mission DCU fosters creativity,
develops knowledge and pioneers innovation
Values Pro-active, creative, engaged and
inclusive
Objectives Student-centred translational
research flexible creative and collaborative
good citizen
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• Objectives
• To maintain and develop a reputation for
  excellence in student-centred inter-disciplinary
  learning innovation
• To promote innovation by creative staff carrying
  out translational research with commercial and
  social benefits
• To be flexible, creative and collaborative,
  engaging strategic alliances to stimulate
  enterprise
• To be a good citizen and promote civic and
  community engagement in a spirit of partnership

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Mission DCU fosters creativity,
develops knowledge and pioneers innovation
Values Pro-active, creative, engaged and
inclusive
Objectives Student-centred translational
research flexible creative and collaborative
good citizen
Stakeholders Students Staff Industry
Government Community
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• Stakeholders
• Students
• Students want to attend a university which
• Looks forward and develops the potential of all
  students to optimise their future
• Builds on leading edge research and innovative
  approaches to learning
• Is a fun, exciting and challenging learning
  environment which values students as citizens

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• Stakeholders
• Staff
• Staff want to work in an organisation
  which
• Is agile and pro-active to take advantage of
  opportunities
• Has the confidence to be different, take risks
  and innovates
• And values all staff and their well-being, is
  inclusive and
• embraces diversity

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• Stakeholders
• Industry
• Research sponsors and industry partners
  expect
• Sustained excellence and innovation
• Leading edge thinking that builds for the future
• Long term collaborative relationships that lead
  to
• breakthroughs and disruptive innovation

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• Stakeholders
• Government
• Government expects DCU to produce
• Skilled graduates/postgraduates with capabilities
  aligned to needs of the 21st Century global
  knowledge economy
• Strong industry engagement in research and
  commercially significant innovation
• Entrepreneurial leadership and budgetary control
  in constrained economic times

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• Stakeholders
• Community
• The wider community and society expect us to
  continue to
• Engage and build for the future through socially
  robust knowledge
• Create opportunities and greater accessibility
  for all
• Contribute to the social, economic and cultural
  development of the wider community

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Mission DCU fosters creativity,
develops knowledge and pioneers innovation
Values Pro-active, creative, engaged and
inclusive
Objectives Student-centred translational
research flexible creative and collaborative
good citizen
Stakeholders Students Staff Industry
Government Community
Foresight Opportunities Learning Innovation
Sustainable World
Pro-active Health
Enterprise Engagement
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• Opportunities
• Learning Innovation
• To foster research- led innovation in teaching
  and learning through creative approaches
  using new technologies
• To integrate new dynamic models of learning at
  all levels of teaching
• To compete on the world stage in the new global
  market for learning through strategic alliances
• To adapt innovative teaching and learning to
  the needs of students of all ages and social
  circumstances

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• Opportunities
• Pro-active Health
• Capitalise on new always on information
  technologies to create innovative models of
  health-care and well-being
• Engage hard science and soft technologies to
  push out the boundaries of nature and nurture to
  promote well-being
• Address the needs of an ageing society using
  leading edge life sciences and ICTs
• Make it personal use life sciences and ICTs
  to understand individual health, well- being and
  performance

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• Opportunities
• Sustainable World
• Make Ireland the 21st century innovation island
  in sustainable and secure energy and other
  natural resources
• Creatively explore the links between greater
  connectivity and the challenges of sustainability
• Walk the talk on innovation and application for
  sustainability with staff and students at a
  sustainable DCU
• Develop our understanding of the human needs of
  sustainable development on a global and national
  scale

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• Opportunities
• Enterprise Engagement
• Leverage our trans-disciplinary research base to
  strengthen Irelands competitive advantage
• Build national and international alliances to
  deliver innovation to meet individual, social and
  market needs
• Exploit the potential of technology convergence
  to transform society
• Enhance Irelands research-led innovation through
  new models of enterprise engagement

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Mission DCU fosters creativity,
develops knowledge and pioneers innovation
Values Pro-active, creative, engaged and
inclusive
Objectives Student-centred translational
research flexible creative and collaborative
good citizen
Stakeholders Students Staff Industry
Government Community
Foresight Opportunities Learning Innovation
Sustainable World
Pro-active Health
Enterprise Engagement
Enablers Resources Financial, Human,
Technological, Spatial Plans Learning, Research,
Community, International, Communications
Faculties Science/Health, Humanities/SS,
Engineering/Computing, Business School
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FROM THEMES TO NEW OPPORTUNITIES
ACADEMIC THEMES
NEW OPPORTUNITIES

• Internationalisation, Interculturalism and
  Social Development
• Science, Discovery and Technological Innovation
• Information Technology and the Knowledge Society
• Education and Learning
• Business and Innovation
• Life Sciences and Health in Society

Learning Innovation Sustainable World Pro-Active
Health Enterprise Engagement
FORESIGHT OUTCOMES
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RESEARCH CENTRES
CASTel/LInk
Managing your health
Always on networks and communications
CLARITY
NICB/ICNT/ C-BAS/ VHRC
RINCE/SIM/CDVP
Educational Innovation and Translational Learning
NCSR/BDI
CNGL/CIS/ CTTS/Sci-Sym
NCPST/MPRC
Sustainable resource use for a carbon neutral
world
Development and security in a complex world
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FROM THEMES TO NEW OPPORTUNITIES
Learning Innovation

• Educational Innovation and Translational Learning

(i) Internationalisation, Interculturalism and
Social Development
Learning Innovation
Sustainable World
2. Managing Your Health
(ii) Science, Discovery and Technological
Innovation
Pro-Active Health
3. Always on Networks and Communications
Enterprise Engagement
4. Sustainable Resource Use for a Carbon Neutral
World
(iii) Information Technology and the Knowledge
Society
5. Development and Security in a Complex World
(iv) Education and Learning
(v) Business and Innovation
6. Futures and Foresight Providing Direction
and Strategy
(vi) Life Sciences and Health in Society
THEMES
OPPORTUNITIES
FORESIGHT OUTCOMES
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FROM THEMES TO NEW OPPORTUNITIES
Sustainable World

• Educational Innovation and Translational Learning

(i) Internationalisation, Interculturalism and
Social Development
Learning Innovation
Sustainable World
2. Managing Your Health
(ii) Science, Discovery and Technological
Innovation
Pro-Active Health
3. Always on Networks and Communications
Enterprise Engagement
4. Sustainable Resource Use for a Carbon Neutral
World
(iii) Information Technology and the Knowledge
Society
5. Development and Security in a Complex World
(iv) Education and Learning
(v) Business and Innovation
6. Futures and Foresight Providing Direction
and Strategy
(vi) Life Sciences and Health in Society
THEMES
OPPORTUNITIES
FORESIGHT OUTCOMES
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FROM THEMES TO NEW OPPORTUNITIES
Pro-Active Health

• Educational Innovation and Translational Learning

(i) Internationalisation, Interculturalism and
Social Development
Learning Innovation
Sustainable World
2. Managing Your Health
(ii) Science, Discovery and Technological
Innovation
Pro-Active Health
3. Always on Networks and Communications
Enterprise Engagement
4. Sustainable Resource Use for a Carbon Neutral
World
(iii) Information Technology and the Knowledge
Society
5. Development and Security in a Complex World
(iv) Education and Learning
(v) Business and Innovation
6. Futures and Foresight Providing Direction
and Strategy
(vi) Life Sciences and Health in Society
THEMES
OPPORTUNITIES
FORESIGHT OUTCOMES
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FROM THEMES TO NEW OPPORTUNITIES
Enterprise Engagement

• Educational Innovation and Translational Learning

(i) Internationalisation, Interculturalism and
Social Development
Learning Innovation
Sustainable World
2. Managing Your Health
(ii) Science, Discovery and Technological
Innovation
Pro-Active Health
3. Always on Networks and Communications
Enterprise Engagement
4. Sustainable Resource Use for a Carbon Neutral
World
(iii) Information Technology and the Knowledge
Society
5. Development and Security in a Complex World
(iv) Education and Learning
(v) Business and Innovation
6. Futures and Foresight Providing Direction
and Strategy
(vi) Life Sciences and Health in Society
THEMES
OPPORTUNITIES
FORESIGHT OUTCOMES
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FORESIGHT ELEMENTS FOR STRATEGY

• FORESIGHT UNIT
• Create DCU futures knowledge webportal
• Develop horizon scanning capability and
  intelligence reports
• Pioneer group intelligence think tank systems
• Build strategic knowledge- generating external
  links

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FORESIGHT ELEMENTS FOR STRATEGY

• FORESIGHT FORUM
• Bring together thought leaders to network
• Create synergies, identify champions
• Translate vision into practice
• Make DCU an acknowledged Foresight University

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Making Connections
FIND THE SYNERGIES BUILD BRIDGES LOCATE
RESOURCES NURTURE CHAMPIONS MOVE FORWARD
Sustainable World
Learning Innovation
Enterprise Engagement
Pro-active Health
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Joined Up Thinking
FORESIGHT FORUM HORIZON SCANNING STRATEGIC
PRIORITIZING
Sustainable World
Learning Innovation
Enterprise Engagement
Pro-active Health
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Strategy is an Ongoing Process Resource
alignment, key process management,
consultation renewal
Foresight and Strategic Leadership Vision,
values and priorities
Strategy is Everyones Job Collaboration,
ownership, competency development
Translate Strategy into Operational Terms
Strategy map, targets, accountability
Align Units and Strategy Shared goals, feed-back
loops, roles defined
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From Foresight to Strategic Plan