This section focuses on:

• Aligning innovation projects with institutional goals, drivers and needs
• Aligning or embedding innovations with institutional strategies
• Aligning or embedding innovations with institutional processes, systems and services
• Focusing on impact and returns on investment.
• Developing a sustainability and embedding plan. 
• Evaluating costs/benefits.

Key messages:

• Innovations are far more likely to be adopted throughout an institution if they can support specific institutional or faculty/school goals, needs and drivers.
• Innovation project teams should work with the “owners” of specific institutional strategies to embed their innovations within the strategies.
• When considering stakeholder needs, the needs of stakeholders such as employers, sector bodies (e.g. sector skills councils) and professional/standards bodies should also be embraced.
• Innovations can be embedded into processes, systems and services, such as QA/QE and curriculum design, review and approval processes, ICT systems to support curriculum design, review and approval and curriculum design/review support services.
• Innovation projects should consider developing a sustainability and embedding plan – to align with the communications and stakeholder engagement plan.
• Project teams will increasingly be required to evidence measureable impact and positive cost/benefits of their innovation projects. 
• JISC have developed an impact calculator for evaluating the efficiency of change initiatives.  

Key resources:

Strategy infoKit