Demand Driven Funding
Managing Quality & Growth in an Era of Funding Reform
Implementing & assessing your institutional strategy
Pre-Conference Workshop A
Tuesday 20th Mar, 2012
9:00am - 4:00pm
Universities across Australia are no doubt revising or have already revised their institutional strategy in order to find their place in the demand-driven market.
This workshop will focus on assisting organisations to successfully implement their own strategy, in whatever form that takes. It will also incorporate useful adult-learning principles including a focus on sharing stories and engaged discussion on each topic. Case studies from other organisations, including the private sector will be incorporated.
Key aspects to be addressed include:
- Achieving consistency and cohesion
- Understanding your key stakeholders and getting critical ‘buy-in’ from these stakeholders
- Putting in place the right leadership, organisation and accountability aspects to support implementation
- Monitoring both implementation and impact; what happens if it is not working?
About your workshop leader:
Ernst & Young
Justin Bokor has 15 years experience as an advisor to public and private sector organisations, with a focus on strategy and operational performance improvement. Justin has consulted extensively to multiple universities in Victoria and nationally, as well as to Federal and State departments of education. His university work has focused on assisting clients with their strategic direction and business plans, new channels to market for international education, financial modelling, and securing Commonwealth grants. Justin’s university clients have included the Group of Eight, Victoria University, RMIT University, La Trobe University, University of South Australia, University of Southern Queensland, Griffith University, Swinburne University, and University of Technology Sydney. Justin’s experience includes six years living and working in China, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia and other Asian markets, and he has capitalised on this experience to help university clients to develop new growth options in the Asian region. Justin is also actively involved in the sector in a pro bono capacity, recently leading a pro bono project for The Conversation on community engagement and knowledge exchange. Justin holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Master of Development and International Economics
Ernst & Young
Peter is Ernst & Young’s National Coordinator of our Education/Universities Sector and has over 25 years’ experience as an Advisor to government and Industry. Peter’s university work includes operating model transformations, channel management, financial modelling and productivity improvement, and advice on strategic positioning in selected markets. His broader work with industry and government has encompassed organisational re-alignment and organisational change as part of a broader change agenda. His qualifications include a Bachelor of Commence (Hons), Master of Economics and he is an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration (Victoria).
Managing capacity under demand driven funding
Post-Conference Workshop B
Friday 23rd March, 2012
9:00am - 4:00pm
While there are complex connections between demand and capacity in any organisation, it is even more so in a higher education institution. Given its missions of teaching and research, there is an underlying web of interrelated activities dedicated to achieving its aims. Demand-driven funding calls for strategies that depend on management of these dynamics. Between demand and capacity lie the careful management of revenue, cost, performance, process, capacity.
The aim of this workshop is to unpick the potential of these areas and the relationship between them, with a view to applying ideas to delegates’ experiences.
During this interactive workshop you will explore:
- Capacity planning and management for sustainable provision in an era of funding reform
- Management of revenue, cost and performance in the context of demand
- Achieving alignment between capacity and strategy
About your workshop leader:
University of Tasmania
Dr William Maguire is a senior lecturer at the University of Tasmania. Before joining the University of Tasmania he held permanent posts at five tertiary institutions and visiting appointments at the universities of Melbourne, Cape Town, Texas at Dallas and Copenhagen Business School. William’s teaching, research and consulting spans from strategy, management control and performance measurement, cost and capacity management to revenue management. He is co-author of four books and of a number of journal articles. Previous to entering academic life he worked in public accounting and commerce.
