Strategic Planning

Kennedy & Company partners with systems, institutions, and schools of all sizes to deliver innovative and visionary strategic plans that shape an institution’s long-term goals. Our Strategic Plans are distinguished by our emphasis on community and stakeholder engagement, our analysis of market, enrollment, and competitive data, and a deep understanding that institutions are navigating competing imperatives. Core to our strategic planning methodology is a change management process and philosophy that is focused on developing broad-based support for the developed strategic plan. We ensure that upon project completion institutional stakeholders see their values and voices reflected in the plan. We complete each strategic plan with the development of an implementation guide and working document that allows institutions to hit the ground running with clear next steps to actualize their strategic vision.

OUR APPROACH:

We co-create custom solutions in collaboration with our clients utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods. Through this collaborative process, we pinpoint solutions by leveraging focus groups, interviews, surveys, market data, rankings analysis, and enrollment metrics. Strategic plan projects take place at the the institution wide, school, or college level and often include reviews of mission and vision statements. We engage with members of the entire community through facilitated visioning workshops to identify priorities and make strategic choices.
Strategic Plannings by Kennedy & Company

See Examples of Our Strategic Plans Here:

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Villanova University College of Engineering Strategic Plan
University of South Carolina, Aiken Strategic Plan
Trinity University Strategic Plan
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"Kennedy and Company’s expertise in strategic planning has been transformative for the College of Engineering. Their productive conversations brought clarity to our vision and enabled us to identify common themes that will shape the future of the College. With their guidance and ongoing support, we have crafted a clear, actionable 10-year roadmap that perfectly aligns with our goals and with Villanova’s mission, confidently positioning us for continued innovation and growth."
Villanova University
Dean Michele Marcolongo
Villanova College of Engineering

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University Wide Strategic Plan
Prarie View A&M University
Kennedy & Company assisted Prairie View A&M University in the development of a ten-year strategic plan and supporting resource planning model. Following the conclusion of its previous strategic plan and the inauguration of a new president, Prairie View sought to develop a long-range strategic plan focused on positioning the university as an exemplar of student success and increasing PVAMU’s research activity.

Core to the creation of the strategic plan was the development of a dynamic resource planning model to understand the estimated cost of long-term capital and student-success projects, investments needed to increase research activity, and recruitment and retention benchmarks to reach enrollment goals. The outputs generated in the model informed the development of the KPIs and metrics that will be used to measure PVAMU’s progress towards the strategic plan’s goals as well as investment requests from the Texas legislature.

Relevant Services: Strategic Planning, Organizational & Operational Planning, Financial Sustainability

College of Engineering Strategic Plan
Villanova University
Kennedy & Company partnered with Villanova University’s university of Engineering to develop 5-7 year for the college. The plan needed to both set the strategic direction for the college and serve as a compliment to the University-wide strategic plan, “Rooted. Restless.” K&Co began their work by conducting interviews with the college’s leadership and department chairs to understand the historical context of, strengths, limitations and areas of opportunity at the university. Following these interviews, K&Co engaged the senior leadership from across the University to understand their perceptions of how the College of Engineering could support and advance the strategic goals of the University as a whole and assess opportunities for cross-institutional partnerships and collaborations.

After working with college leadership to identify four strategic focus areas for the strategic plan, K&Co conducted visioning sessions and focus groups with faculty, staff, students, and alumni to understand their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for the college and desired future strategic direction for the college. As a part of these sessions, K&Co also worked with faculty and staff to evaluate and eventually reaffirm the college’s mission statement.

Relevant Services: Strategic Planning, Organizational & Operational Planning

Past & Current Strategic Planning Clients Include

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