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Let's talk value

The Let's Talk Value event has been designed to build on the journey initiated by BUFDG in 2016, and more recently the 2017-18 Integrated Thinking and Reporting project where ten universities have been exploring integrated thinking and reporting as a framework to support a more holistic approach to strategic thinking, value creation and communication of value.  Find out more about the recent Integrated Thinking and Reporting project.

It has never been more important to understand and articulate how your university creates and sustains value.

The themes and issues that will be discussed at Let's Talk Value will be based on the work of the ten universities that have been through the most recent project.

Participants at Let's Talk Value will consider:

  • How integrated thinking and reporting could provide the right framework for institutions to communicate more effectively what they do.

  • Hear how different narratives around value in particular, can help universities tell their stories more effectively.

On the whole, our HEI’s continue to deliver excellence in education, research and engagement, but our collective ability to tell a story that makes sense of the world around and demonstrates that value in a way which connects with our stakeholders, could be better.  At the same time, a group of ten institutions with oversight from a steering group of experts has been working to pool their expertise in understanding and articulating how they create value and who for.

Mervyn King, IIRC chair and corporate governance leader said recently: “Integrated Reporting gives companies a heart, a mind, and a soul.”  The pilot group of ten universities , believe that it is now more important than ever before, that HEIs are able to demonstrate the value that they create for their students, their funders, governors and for society as a whole.

Participants at the Let's Talk Value event will leave this event with a greater understanding of the concept of value and be better able to tell the story of how value is created in a holistic way, and therefore shifting the dialogue about value.

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