Process
Preliminary Work |
Workshops with external stakeholders |
Workshops of the Rector’s team |
Joint Workshops |
Final phase and draft sharing |
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METHODOLOGICAL CHOICES
Instead of the traditional approach seeing strategy as “planning”(a top-down and deductive process, focused on “what to do”), a new approach has been adopted, where strategy is characterized as an “emergent” phenomenon, that is:
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"Contemporary" approach |
Bottom up |
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Inductive |
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Focused on “what to be” |
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Fitting uncertain and volatile contexts and non-hierarchical organizations |
THE EFFECTS
Methodological effects
- Widely participated process
- Role of mediation and integration
Effects on contents
- Significant focus on impact
- Balanced evaluation of the three university missions and their different expressions, aware of their role and complementarity
- Orientation opposite to a top-down approach
- Focus on "what we are" ("open community" and "enabling platform")
Future effects
- Development of an Action Plan (already foreshadowed by a list of objectives)
- Development of specific strategic plans, which will implement the Institutional Strategic Plan into the various university units