• Heroic effort to secure full participation

• Established timeline

• Form strategic planning "workshop" team to provide training as needed

• Planning/Budget task group evolves into standing committee

• Washington representative involved in scan of research support environment

• Task group (ideally, an existing one) to recommend University-wide strategic approaches to addressing each priority area

• Continuous process -- annual updates -- with a complete reconsideration every 5 years

• Unit (department/college/other) plans address each priority and help drive University-wide plan

• Plan, progress, and process carried out on special web site

• Environmental analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

• Small number (6 or less) priority areas to be clearly identified

• Mission and values affirmed or enhanced

• Measurable objectives and goals relative to each priority

• Theme/positioning of University/marketing strategies

• Annual progress report to selves and public with real data

• University plan based in part on unit strategic plans

• Will describe a preferred future for UND

• Financing and organizational strategies based on plan

• Annual unit report and UND annual report with standard format elements and systematic provision of data to units, in advance of each annual report cycle

• Connects with NDUS planning/ legislative study

• Budgeting linked to planning

• Strategic resource management model to be developed