Strategic Planning Software to Turn Strategy into Improvement

Nuventive helps colleges and universities drive institutional progress by rolling up plans, actions, and outcomes from across the organization, making it easy to see what’s working, change course as needed, and demonstrate results.

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Deliver — and Demonstrate — Ongoing Institutional Achievements

How easy is it to see your progress against your strategic plans?

As priorities flow from the cabinet to schools, colleges, divisions, departments, and programs, it’s often difficult to see whether work is aligned, resources are focused on the right initiatives, or progress is being made. Without visibility, strategic plans become periodic reporting exercises instead of living frameworks that guide institutional decisions.

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Integrated, data-informed planning is central to NMJC’s operational effectiveness. Strategic, academic, enrollment, and facilities planning, alongside the program review process and assessment tools such as Nuventive, guide resource allocation and continuous improvement.

— Excerpt from New Mexico Junior College’s Peer Review Team Report, HLC Comprehensive Evaluation

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How Nuventive Helps

Plan it. Prove it. Do it.

Plan it. Do it. Prove it.

From faculty and department leaders to the president and governing board, Nuventive interconnects strategic decisions, strategic actions, and strategic outcomes at scale.

  • Plan it. Achieve true, adaptive, integrated planning across a wide range of initiatives, linking strategic planning to retention, workforce development, resource allocation, digital transformation, general education, performance-based funding, and much more.
  • Do it. Align work across your institution’s initiatives and help your teams leverage the best information in context to inform their decisions, along with what has worked and what hasn’t in the past.
  • Prove it. Demonstrate progress through dashboards tailored for every audience, from departments to the governing board, enabling everyone to see how their work contributes to institutional success, and building a data-informed culture. These learnings kick off the planning cycle again, delivering continuous improvement.

With Nuventive, You Can:

Align Initiatives Across Your Organization

Connect strategic priorities with divisional, departmental, and program-level initiatives, so every improvement effort supports institutional goals.

Deliver Actionable Progress

Gain insights at any level with dashboards created by Nuventive’s experienced Managed Services team to the exact needs of your organization, and use them to foster action to accelerate improvement.

Adapt as Priorities Evolve

Our Managed Services team is a partner in your ongoing success. Your services consultant can work with your team as your planning needs evolve, helping you connect new plans, make changes to existing processes, and create new dashboards to meet ongoing reporting needs.

How to Get Started

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FAQs

Dramatically. Nuventive transforms your strategic plans from static documents into a living framework that connects priorities, initiatives, measures, actions, history, and outcomes across the institution.
Yes, Nuventive’s Managed Services team can configure relevant dashboards so presidents, cabinet members, boards, and other stakeholders can get the answers they need on institutional progress with no data requests necessary.
Absolutely. Institutions commonly connect strategic planning with learning and administrative outcomes assessment, program review, student success, and other priorities to see how each initiative contributes to institutional goals.
Yes. Nuventive simultaneously supports centralized planning while allowing individual campuses, colleges, and departments to manage their own plans and processes within a shared strategic framework.
Our Managed Services team taps their deep expertise to configure Nuventive to reflect your institution’s planning process, terminology, governance structure, and reporting needs, so the Platform works the way your institution does. Our team will bring their extensive knowledge of institutional planning to bear when laying out your process in the system, pointing out where making changes might help take advantage of effective practice using the Nuventive Platform.