The Strategic Innovation Office (SIO) is a team of LATIS leaders that combine their planning expertise, organizational skills, and related experiences to facilitate strategic change efforts in CLA. The SIO complements, and includes members from, the mission-aligned innovation services units: LATIS Research, LATIS Learning, and LATIS Innovation.
What is "strategic innovation"?
We help leaders (of all levels) plan and facilitate new initiatives, strategy development, special events, and long-term investments in how the CLA community works together. We don't set college or department strategy, but we're pretty good at assisting units that need to develop their own. We apply our innovation support concepts that make it easier for busy faculty, busy researchers, and busy administrators to develop long-term plans and implement change efforts. Like everyone in LATIS, we're here to help. You can read the Key Concept on Strategy for more on how we define the terms.
This resource site includes details on our services and the projects we are working on, and it also includes a library of resources you can use in your own planning and organizational change efforts. This site and SIO itself is a work in progress. Please let us know how we can make it better for you.