Continuing the journey…..

…building momentum to sustain change …….and embed project benefits

Innovation – as a “whole-life” concept

Innovation – as a “whole-life” concept

Identify “business” need & business case

Research & baseline/benchmark

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PROJECT/PILOT INSTITUTION SECTOR(S)

Embedding

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Examples ofEnablers

• Changing people & culture•OU: communities of practice•Oxford: communications & stakeholder engagement •Herts: CABLE (change process)•REAP/Ulster: assessment principles as discourse•Greenwich DL: BR CAMEL

• Influencing organisational change•Greenwich/MMU: “professional” change management•Exeter: students as change agents

• Embedding or aligning innovations•Leicester: Embed open design into Carpe Diem•Greenwich/Cardiff/MMU/BC: embed processes/systems •Oxford CASCADE: key drive for change - business plan.•Greenwich: cost-benefit analysis

• Creating useable tools and resources•Ulster: reflective resources / workshop framework

•Open approaches to sustainability•WBL maturity toolkit

• Communities•OU - OULDI•ELESIG•Subject centres???

• Capacity-building/benefits realisation

• Leicester - OSTRICH: Cascade process•OU – OULDI: workshop framework &

visualisation tools.

• Resistance to innovation • Leaders and/or “owners” change• Complexity / too much choice• Lack of appreciation of future educational scenarios• Innovators don’t make good “embedders”• Structures/processes/resources for embedding/innovation•Mind-sets: innovation projects have an end-date!• Lack of a Vision & project sustaining/embedding plan

• “Not invented here”• Insufficient “motivators” & resources• Increasing competitionBarriers

early innovation ……………………… systemic innovationSustaining

Project Changing people & culture

Organisational change

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Project clinics

http://bit.ly/Jx7W6dGroup 1 – BCU, LMU, City, OU Group 2 – MMU, Cardiff, Strathclyde Group 3 – Ulster, Bolton, Greenwich, Staffs

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