Strategy & Innovation
Uncover opportunities for mission-focused growth.
Our in-depth understanding of the university context and innovation potential makes us the ideal partner to develop strategic plans and accelerate new programs and innovations.
We are experienced in:
Market scans and competitive landscape analyses: We assess your competitive context through peer comparisons and market signals to identify positioning, pricing insights, and clear opportunities for differentiation.
Program and portfolio reviews: We evaluate academic offerings, enrollment patterns, and program performance to strengthen mission alignment, sustainability, and overall portfolio strategy.
Design thinking workshops and ideation: We facilitate design-thinking workshops that generate bold ideas, uncover unmet needs, and translate early concepts into promising, testable solutions.
Scenario planning and strategic options development: We facilitate strategic decision-making by developing future scenarios and evaluating options, risks, and tradeoffs with leadership teams.
New program design and launch strategy: We support end-to-end program innovation—from concept development and curriculum framing to go-to-market planning, partnerships, and launch readiness.
Strategic roadmaps and implementation planning: We translate strategic goals into an executable roadmap with defined priorities, milestones, owners, timelines, and resource requirements.
Impact metrics and tracking: We help define meaningful success measures and build practical tracking approaches that monitor progress, demonstrate impact, and enhance accountability.
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A scientific institute with an interdisciplinary focus had achieved its initial goals and needed support to create a vision for its next decade. However after some time the internal committee still didn’t have the buy-in to move forward. We conducted interviews, online and in-person workshops, and external benchmarking to map the environment, identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and evaluate multiple future scenarios. This work was then brought together in a vision document for faculty input and buy-in, and then a full strategic plan was delivered.
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A US-based university with a presence in the Gulf Region sought to grow its master’s and executive programs. We conducted detailed market and competitive research, reviewed their portfolio and operations, and identified near-term opportunities to grow, motivating and focusing the team on a plan that yielded immediate results.
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When a leading state university school wanted to evaluate the impact of newly-developed blended learning programs to meet the evolving demands of a global workforce. We created a comprehensive assessment ecosystem that is a foundation for ongoing innovation and global impact. It included
custom impact assessment framework with learner outcome and workforce metrics
a complete question bank integrated throughout all courses to measure knowledge acquisition, skill development, and impact
an interactive dashboard design for real-time visualization of learner progress and program effectiveness
survey toolkits for long-term data collection
detailed implementation guides
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A major research lab was looking to increase the scope and profitability of its online professional offerings. We did an in-depth analysis of the profitability, expenses, staff support and external partnership opportunities and made recommendations that set the programs up for their next stage of growth by leveraging external partnerships and optimized internal support and staffing..
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An executive and professional organization came to us looking to design new and innovative ways to increase revenues with their highly successful professional degree programs. We conducted a benchmarking study and an environmental scan, interviewed current and past clients, stakeholders and staff, and developed a two-year strategic plan for growth.