Marine Institute of Memorial Strategic Plan

HESA worked to both develop a new Marine Institute Strategic Plan and evaluate the previous one.

During 2018-2019, HESA worked with the Marine Institute on assessing their performance under their existing strategic plan (Vision 2020) and in assisting them in developing a new strategic plan. This work included several phases and several consultative workshops and interviews. We held discussions with various Marine Institute groups, including administration, faculty and students. We combined findings from these interviews with our investigation of key economic and social trends shaping the province of Newfoundland and oceanic research and industry more generally.

Our interviews with officials focused on having Marine Institute staff reflect on what they understood to be the key action items for the existing strategic plan and to evaluate the progress that has been made on those items. These items included goals around finances, communication, student training, or program development.

Through this process, HESA worked collaboratively and had team members travel to St. John’s to identify key questions, discuss new ideas, and develop new strategies and frameworks for fostering new directions. One key output from this process was a report summarizing activity and progress towards completing the Vision 2020 framework, including providing clear and evidence-based assessments of how the Marine Institute did or did not achieve the goals under that framework. Another output was a series of tools and a report outlining the creation of the Next Vision, based in part on our assessment of performance during the previous academic plan and in part on our findings from our environmental scan and stakeholder consultations.