University at Buffalo - The State University of New York

Phase I

Government University and Industry

Strategic Issues

• The UB legislative agenda is not presently informed by an overarching campus strategy
• UB does not have a meaningful strategy for developing corporate partners
• UB is not getting full credit for its successes
  • Within community, government, industry, academia

Organizational Issues

• The campus operates in decanal and operational silos preventing synergistic opportunities to build stronger industry and government relationships from materializing
• Organizational incentives to increase corporate revenues are not sufficient
• University capitalizes on the strength of individual relationships but has not established broader 'institutional' relationships with government

Process Issues

• There are a limited number of processes in place to coordinate cross campus industry and / or government efforts
  • UB lacks a comprehensive, unified and coordinated communication and marketing process for developing industry relationships
  • UB lacks a formal process for developing federal requests

Technological Issues

• The campus lacks the systems necessary to collect and share information needed to expand industry and government efforts