W. M. Keck ObservatoryCommunity Scientific Strategic

Planning Meeting

September 18, 2009

Strategic Plan“Excellence by choice”

• WMKO Mission (2010-2020)– High angular resolution astrophysics– Faint object, high-precision & highly-multiplexed

spectroscopy from UV through K.– Highly efficient operations– Flexibility to exploit emerging opportunities– Training the future leaders of the field

• WMKO Mission (2020+?)

Strategy

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”

Winston Churchill

Strategy

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. ”

Sun Tzu

Strategy

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

Michael Lebeouf

Strategy

“You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.”

Leon Trotsky

Strategy

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.”

Charles de Gaulle

Enlightened Criticism

Enthusiastic Endorsement

Introduction & Goals of Meeting

• Has the strategic planning process produced the right answer?

• What is the role of Keck in the next 5, 10, and 20 years?

• Does our outlook balance short, medium, and long-term priorities?

• Are we trying to do too much? Too little?• How can the planning process be improved?

Banned

• Stakeholders• “Out of the box”• Viable alternative• Fall-back position• Bend the cost curve• Synergy

Agenda• 8:30 Introduction and Objectives of Meeting [Martin] (15 min)• 8:45 Overview of Strategic Planning process & resulting Strategic Plan [Brodie] (45 min)• 9:30 Keck and the System, Astro2010 activities [Bolte/Kulkarni/Armandroff] (30 min)• 10:00 The future of WMKO in the TMT era [Bolte/Kulkarni] (30 min)• 10:45 Resource outlooks [Armandroff] (Federal, Development, Time trades) (45 min)• 11:30 Flow-down of Strategic Priorities to Annual and 5-year WMKO Plan [Armandroff/Lewis] (30 min)• Key Initiatives

– 1:00 NGAO [Max, Wizinowich, Morris, NSAT] (80 min)– 2:20 KCWI [Martin] (25 min)– 2:45 Highly efficient operations [Armandroff/Lewis/TBD] (25 min)– 3:10 Flexibility/Time-Domain Astronomy [Prochaska] (10 min)– 3:20 High resolution LRIS upgrade [Cohen] (10 min)– 3:30 Wide-field spectroscopy [Brodie/Bernstein] (25 min)

• 4:00 Summary of community input, responses to-date, and planned future responses [Prochaska, TBD] (15 min)

• 4:15 Contributed talks & visions, discussion of submitted questions open discussion [Martin/Brodie] (75 min)

• 5:30 Wrap-up [Martin/Brodie] (15 min)• 5:45 Reception (90 min)