The Centre for Business has created its Strategic Plan based on the College’s articulated vision, mission, values, and plan. By creating this alignment, the Centre contributes directly to the vision and future of the College.
The Centre for Business’ Strategic Plan covers the three-year period 2021-24. It allows us to leverage our strengths, tap into the resource base of the College and Division, and reposition the Centre by developing a competitive advantage over other PSEs. The key overarching goal of the Strategic Plan is to create a first-rate teaching and learning experience for our students. This is complemented by investing in developing the Centre’s human resource capacity and capabilities.
The implementation, execution and monitoring of the plan will be expressed through annual Business Plans.
Our Aspiration:
To be recognized as a leader in applied business education supporting lifelong learners in achieving their educational and professional aspirations.
Our 4 Strategic Goals:
- Prepare business students to be workplace ready and lifelong learners – increased focus on data analytics/business intelligence and technology skills, experiential learning, interdisciplinary thinking, global skills and an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Expand and foster partnerships and collaboration with industries, professional associations, and other post-secondary institutions both domestic and international – mutually beneficial & expansive to include human capital, educational, financial, operational, reputational, and intellectual property.
- Build a resilient CfB community with the capability and capacity needed to adapt to a changing external environment - by focusing on training and development for faculty and staff, ensuring that they have efficient and effective systems to support their work, while simultaneously emphasizing equity, inclusivity, and the diverse attributes of faculty, staff, and students.
- Establish a strong educational brand globally and be the college sector Business School of choice from which employers recruit - by undertaking a range of academic identity and reputation building practices that attract promising aspirational students and talented faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds.
Our Business Values
Our business values embrace People, Pedagogy and Progressiveness (3Ps) in preparing workplace ready business professionals. Within each of these three (3) areas, the CfB advocates for, and practices, equity, diversity, and inclusivity, in teaching and learning, and in employee relations.
People – Using Equity, Diversity and Inclusion as a transformational guide, build communities of practice to leverage the expertise of academics and staff who have exemplary industry and professional experience.
Pedagogy – Deliver differentiated learning experiences for development of students’ real-world competencies, such as interdisciplinary problem-solving, experiential learning, digital and analytical thinking. These enable students to make connections across disciplines to solve problems and provide them with lifelong learning tools that are needed over their careers and ensure employability.
Progressiveness – Maintain a relentless focus on student experience and the pursuit of innovation to maximize learning outcomes for all learners and increase time to market and entrepreneurial approaches to meet the changing needs of industry.
Our Brand Promise
Graduates of the Centre for Business are workplace ready and highly regarded business professionals.
The CfB Roadmap
The CfB Roadmap outlines 4 major business plan elements:
- Alignment to 4 Strategic Commitments at the GBC Level
- CfB Strategic Goals & Priorities
- CfB Key Initiatives through which our goals & priorities are achieved, and
- CfB Outcomes which include our SMAs and GBC Measurable Outcomes.
- Strategic Commitment #1: Future Skills
- Strategic Commitment #2: Connections
- Strategic Commitment #3: NEW WAYS OF TEACHING, LEARNING AND SERVICE DELIVERY
- GBC Strategic Commitment #4: FOUNDATIONS FOR SUCCESS
Deliver learning experiences that prepare learners for future and global skills.
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Academic Planning in which:
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Build interconnected partnerships with other post-secondary institutions, industry, and community.
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Build a resilient CfB community that is adaptable, entrepreneurial, and diverse. Strengthen pedagogical expertise, delivery capacity and capabilities. In so doing, we raise the standard of the learner experience and expand the variety of delivery models.
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Focus on our fundamentals to help anticipate, absorb, and manage change.
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Our business values advocate for, and practice equity, diversity and inclusivity in teaching and learning, and in employee relations. Our priorities include:
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