Project:
Strategic Enrollment Plan: Facility Requirements, Constraints and Opportunities
Result:
Visibility on current facilities and the utilisation thereof as well as a road map to accommodate future growth.
1. Problem Statement
- The university needs to accommodate a growth plan (courses and enrolment numbers);
- Facilities are required to accommodate the university’s growth (lecture halls, laboratories etc.);
- Decisions need to be made regarding facilities:
- Improved scheduling;
- Acquiring new properties;
- Upgrading current facilities, etc.
- Currently there is no visibility on the current facility availability and the utilization of facilities;
2. Solution Approach
- Determine available facility elements (venues, capacities, locations, configuration etc.);
- Determine courses/modules and associated requirements (venue type, contact hours etc.);
- Analyze current scheduling (fixed and ad-hoc schedules);
- Create centralized dashboards to visually analyze facilities, courses, scheduling etc.
- Identify areas for potential improvement (data integration, improved scheduling, space utilization);
- Determine requirements for future growth and identify strategic improvement projects;
3. Project Outcomes
- Centralized and standardized facility database;
- Centralized and standardized course/module database;
- Dashboards to visualize current environment (venues and modules/courses);
- Identification of current scheduling/planning inefficiencies;
- Spatial requirement analysis (sufficient/insufficient space for current and future growth);
- Roadmap to improve current operations (data management, scheduling, visibility etc.);
- Strategic plans to accommodate growth and new courses in terms of facility requirements;
