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Business and Community EngagementSupporting Strategic Partnerships - Enriching Teaching and Research

Simon WhittemoreJISC Executive

Institutional Innovation Programme Meeting28-29 January 2010

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/bce.aspx

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What we mean by Business and Community Engagement (BCE)?

Strategic management of relationships with external partners and clients,

and of the associated services

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER/ EXCHANGE (KE); EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT (EE) PUBLIC/ COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (PE); LIFELONG LEARNING (LL)

What?

Institutional

Strategic Areas (4):

Services (e.g.): CPD, workforce devt. (EE); Consultancy, collab. research (KE) Public lectures/events/festivals (PE); Community-based learning (LL)

Highly/multi-skilled, versatile workforce; innovative, sustainable business economy; cohesive, inclusive society;and efficient, dynamic, sustainable institutions…..

Benefits:

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Supporting institutions;Embedding BCE within institutions and across JISC

JISC Business and Community Engagement (BCE)

How?

Not a bolt-on - business efficiencies, - collaborative & partnership benefits (e.g. via CRM), - skills advancements via BCE are business critical in constrained economic climate…..

But depends on people to make change happen and processes to manage operational change…..

Is a driver for change…

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Business and Community Engagement – Enabling effective interaction

Strategic services;Virtual collaborative

facilities

External access to knowledge and expertise

resources

InternalEffective processes +

Interoperable systems (e.g. CRM);

HE/FE KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE Research, Education

BUSINESS & COMMUNITYDEMANDProblem/need or opportunity

BCE PRACTITIONERSRelationship and Service Management

Productive knowledge and learning partnerships

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Effective outward engagement requires effective & efficient internal operations

‘Key issues for effective workforce development partnerships’ -(CBI/UUK Report Stepping Higher):

‘Having the right infrastructure to respond to employers’;

‘The right people to deliver the programmes’;

‘Better mutual understanding – between universities and employers…’;

‘Recognising both the employer and learners as clients in different ways’;

‘Building wider support for employer engagement within universities and recognition of the value of skill enhancement within businesses’;

Delivering programmes in ways that suit employers and participants’; ‘Working out the funding mix’.

The same issues for knowledge transfer / exchange….

Shared infrastructure for efficiency cost-saving and cohesion?

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Playing to strengths……

Strategic choices:

‘… universities themselves will have to be more efficient and effective. Universities already need to be rigorous in withdrawing from activities of lower priority and value, so that they can invest more in higher priority programmes’.

Higher Ambitions

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JISC Business and Community Engagement (BCE) Programme 2008-11– Key Streams and Key Work-packages

4 - ENABLING THE INTERFACE

3 - ENABLING CHANGE

2 - FACILITATING COLLABORATION

1 - ENHANCING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENTCRM

Online Toolsfor BCE

Embedding BCE

Extending Access Mgt

Access to Resources#

*Virtual Research Environments

Employer Engagement

Supporting Training & CPD

Open Innovation#

SME e-empowering

VREs*for BCE

Online Promotion of

Research Expertise

# Forthcoming Call

A cross-cutting programme…..

Working with other stakeholders, e.g. AURIL, IKT, New Engineering Foundation….