Agility and Change
Competency Area:
Agility and Change
Integrated planning has a close relationship with change and change management. Integrated planning facilitates change and requires change practices to succeed. In looking at the world more broadly, integrated planning prepares institutions for change in their environment, helping them create living, fluid plans that can adapt. These competencies relate to change.
Competencies for Agility and Change
Adapt to Change
The ability to adapt and revise plans and initiatives as circumstances change
- Navigate and adapt to change, inside and outside the institution.
- Evaluate and respond to hurdles: overcome, change course, or hold off.
- Look for opportunities in unplanned change.
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Solve Problems
The ability to identify, analyze, and solve issues and problems
- Seek opportunities to improve. Monitor performance to identify problems and inefficiencies to address.
- Define the problem. Use data and information to analyze issues and determine what needs to change.
- Solve problems. Take actions to address issues.
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Planning for Higher Education Journal
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Innovation
The ability to generate new ideas and try new things
- Develop and adapt initiatives in response to changing needs of students and the institution.
- Question the status quo.
- Evaluate and mitigate risk.
- Develop pilots and trials to test new ideas.
- Use mistakes and lessons learned to improve on ideas.
- Scale up an initiative from a pilot to a systemic change.
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