Strategy, planning and change

SUMS takes an end-to-end approach which builds in change management from the start of the strategy development process. Strategy is easy to write and hard to deliver so we start from the perspective of what you want to achieve, how you will approach implementation and how you will measure strategic delivery and impact.

SUMS has extensive expertise across strategy, planning and change. Across our core team and Associates we include staff who have worked across the sector in a range of senior strategic planning and change roles. Whatever the strategic problem, there will be someone at SUMS who can help you to develop a solution.

SUMS works with universities to support everything from big, periodic strategy development through to developing programme and change plans. Our approaches are tried and tested and grounded in industry specific methodologies so universities can be assured that our practice work is grounded in best practice. Alongside sector-standard approaches to planning and change, we have developed bespoke maturity assessments and practical tools which support universities to plan, delivery their strategy and evaluate success.