Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is the process of identifying new directions (goals, strategies, initiatives) necessary to keep the University well placed in a continually changing environment.  Strategic planning complements tracking and improvement processes focused on optimising the quality of current practice.

All planning occurs within the context of the University's long term vision statement, Setting the Pace - this document is currently being reviewed, please refer to the planning website.

Strategic planning at UTS occurs at three levels:

1. Whole of university level, as expressed in the UTS strategic plan
2. Thematic level, as expressed in the enabling plans
3. Individual faculty and unit level, as expressed in strategic plans prepared by management teams of those areas

Sound strategic planning is a precursor to sound action or work planning at the unit, team and individual staff level. The Human Resources Unit outlines the UTS individual performance and development cycle.

Strategic Planning and PQU

PQU's role in supporting strategic planning at UTS involves:

• working with the University Executive to refine the strategic plan and to monitor its implementation
• communicating the UTS strategic plan throughout the University
• assisting Enabling Plan sponsors and leading support units to develop, implement and review enabling plans
• conducting periodic environmental scans of the University's operating context, and
• assisting faculties and units with their local strategic planning as requested.

Other services that PQU provides include:

• supporting annual action planning at the faculty and unit level
• implementing the KPI Scorecard at the UTS and faculty levels, and
• coordinating the University's annual cycle of thematic reviews.