Building the Vision for NMSU’s Future Through the Administration and Finance Strategic Plan
On May 12, 2012, NMSU’s Board of Regents officially adopted the Building the Vision Academic Strategic Plan , a comprehensive blueprint created to realize NMSU’s seven Goals for Success. The Building the Vision Plan and Seven Goals for Success work collectively to enhance NMSU’s image as a world-class university.
The university’s academic and business units have been tasked with identifying how they can contribute to the further success and enhancement of the land-grant, research, and community missions through the development of unit strategic plans. As a response, the Administration and Finance Division has put in place a collaborative, strategic planning process, which is based on input from employees from a range of staff positions and customers of the division, to identify how it may best contribute to the university’s shared goals and collective success.
Administration and Finance Strategic Plan Project Timeline
Below is the tentative project timeline for the development of the Administration and Finance Strategic Plan. This timeline provides a broad overview of all the steps necessary to complete the plan, and is currently in progress and subject to change.
August through mid-September 2012 |
- Plan process development
- Identify groups
- Develop structure
- Recruit Workgroup members
- Set rules
- Communication strategy outlined
- Initial communications
- Internal to employees (2)
- External request for participation
- Initial strategic plan static content design
- Theme (optional?)
- Structure
- Table of Contents
- Layout format
- Commission external review (situational analysis)
- Complete initial web site design
- Invitation to staff to join Workgroups
- Invitation to externals to join Workgroups
- General communications to university
- Development of divisional mission and values
- Summary of process to President (Sep. 15 - hard deadline)
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End of September 2012 |
- SVP’s’ plan introduction to division
- Preliminary objectives defined by Steering Group
- Plan web site goes live
- Data to external reviewer prior to situational analysis
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October - November 2012 |
- Begin situational analysis conducted by Commtech Transformations, Inc.
- Review situational analysis results
- Introductory Workgroup meeting held
- Schedule
- Task overview
- Rules
- Expectations
- training
- Workgroup meetings (begin mid-October)
- Workgroup reviews and development starts
- Preliminary mission/values, objectives, and internal and external review and other input provided to workgroups
- Approves, modifies, or rejects preliminary objectives and creates new ones.
- Develops strategies, metrics, etc.
- Workgroup begins to pass Objectives/Strategies/Metrics to Steering Group
- Workgroup strategy development
- Rationale
- Measures for success
- Frequency
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December 2012 - April 2013 |
- Process update to President - (December 15 - hard deadline)
- Finalize production of initial plan
- Steering Group reviews mission/values, Objectives/Strategies/Metrics from Workgroups
- Mission/values and objectives established in plan
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May - August 2013 |
- Steering Group develops objective themes
- Workgroup reviews draft plan Objectives/Strategies/Metrics and goal themes
- AF director/manager goal review meetings
- Objectives/Strategies/Metrics readied for placement in plan
- Draft plan to AF employees in UEC (last week of June)
- Plans with UEC edits to UAC and university community for comment - (first week of July)
- Final draft executive plan submitted to President - (end of July)
- Post plan to website as complete - (August 2013)
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