There’s a fundamental difference between strategy and strategic planning, yet too often, institutions conflate the two. Strategy is about winning, making deliberate choices to position a university, school, or research unit for success in an unpredictable and competitive environment. Strategic plann...

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Leonardo  Da Vinci

If research administrators could distill the management and administration of grant portfolios and department operations into a single word, I imagine complex would be the most common endorsement. Some complexity is inherent in the pr...

For many academic departments, centers, and units with a research mission, focusing on their core objective can be frustrating, messy, and exhausting. Research administrators often deal with complicated email threads discussing changes in project effort, managing reporting requirements, questions ab...