Initial planning meeting(s)

Work with the Vice Chancellor to coordinate outreach to the Innovate Carolina Design Team and key leaders on the UNC Innovation Council

Engage the Innovation Council design team to set expectations for strategic plan workflow and human centered design process

Facilitate hopes and fears activity with key campus innovation leaders including those appointed to the Innovation Council

Establish five overarching aims to guide the strategic thrusts of the plan

Prioritize existing and revised outcome measures for mapping onto the overarching aims

Aggregate and sort change ideas to align with overarching aims and outcome measures

Collaborate with Master’s student intern on the design and tracking of key benchmarks on a user-friendly metrics dashboard

Draft UNC Innovation Strategic Plan to guide focus groups and establishment of partnerships to advance strategic thrusts

Conduct focus groups with identified campus innovation leaders for feedback on Innovation Council-generated strategic thrusts and change ideas to:

• Elevate aligned innovation strategy activities and metrics

• Generate opportunities for partnerships that will advance thrusts across the innovation ecosystem

Empower Innovate Carolina teams to implement and measure change ideas relevant to their day-to-day work

Develop promising change ideas that align with the Strategic Plan thrusts into actionable outcome measures

Revise UNC Innovation Strategic plan to reflect:

• updated change ideas aligned with initial set of outcome measures

• emerging interdisciplinary partnerships that will advance strategic thrusts