- Engaging key stakeholders in leadership roles
- Capturing stakeholder input campuswide
- Developing a sound business case for change to ensure buy-in
- Assessing realistically the cultural readiness for change
- Articulating current financial model and envisioning future model
- Communicating effectively the vision, strategies, and goals to set expectations
- Assessing realistically the resources that will be required
- Assessing realistically the gaps that will need to be overcome
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- Funding not clearly committed
- Lack of executive support or understanding
- Assuming buy-in because of dissatisfaction with status quo
- Underestimating resistance to change
- Getting into too much detail in the strategic overview phase
- Abandoning academic vision exercise because of a lack of an academic plan
- Establishing a vision that exceeds the ability of the institution to achieve it
- Failing to include life-cycle costs in the resources assessment
- Establishing unrealistic timelines and cost estimates
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