Operation Move

Today, 80 students, lectors and leaders participate in a meeting about Operation Move. Interesting to hear that the lectures emphasize the need for concrete acitons - and for leadership; especially transformative leadership.

Operation Move, began in December 2011. The CEO hired an external consultant who is entitled to bring UCL closer to a focused strategy. Strategical Educational Forum (SEF) first met the consultant on January 16th where the agenda was presented and discussed. As part of SEF, I participated in the meeting. One of the project's slogan was presented as: "from 400 to 40 projects".

One of the main tasks in the project is to establish an overview of all projects in UCL. In R&D, we already have a project-database containing 200 R&D-project but all the projects in the educational programs were not registred. The consultant developed a new database based on new criteria and all project managers were asked to fill it out. We now have a database with approximately 250 project.

I am part of the steering group, representing R&D and Further Education. However, the agenda is highly defined by the educational programs and how they can collaborate across campus on some of the existing strategic goals.

Since January, I have participated in 11 meetings about the project - including three day seminars. I am frequently used as  a sort of case in the project, because I am the project-owner of more than 50 projects. It is repeatedly mentioned by the consultant and the CEO that nobody can have the overview of more than 5-10 projects. So, I am very curious to see what the future will bring me. On Septmeber 14th, Operation Move will be presented to the entire organization and I will be so much wiser.