Enterprise Engagement Framework
Introductory video guiding you through the Enterprise Engagement Framework
What is the Enterprise Engagement Framework (EEF)?
The Enterprise Engagement Framework (EEF) is a structured guide for faculty to co-create programmes with industry partners. Partner-based programme development involves close collaboration with industry to ensure relevance and real-world impact.
While this approach brings unique dynamics, such as shared objectives and co-design, the EEF fully aligns with TU Dublin’s existing academic systems, quality assurance processes, and governance structures.
Background to the Enterprise Engagement Framework
TU Dublin’s Enterprise Academy, an HCI Pillar 3-funded project, identified a need to systematise our processes for enterprise-engaged programme discovery, design and delivery. The aim was to create a usable model or pathway, based on our experiences, that could be shared with colleagues across the university to follow independently.
Our cross-faculty work had shown us that each school faced the same questions and issues every time a faculty member approached enterprise-engaged partnership proposals. Rather than each school reinventing the wheel, it was thought that having an accessible, experience-based pathway would help alleviate time and undue stress issues for colleagues interested in designing new industry collaborations.
Interactive EEF: clickthrough slideshow
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On the first slide, click on the orange arrow to move to slide two.
In slide two, click on the word Viability to reveal a dropdown menu.
Click into Programme Discovery. This reveals two arrows to the right, Strategic Fit Toolkit and Partnership Templates. Click into each to review the resources to complete the programme discovery task.
Next, click into Go/No-Go Decision to reveal the next set of arrows — Confirm School/s Interest, Agree Stakeholder Roles and Responsibilities, and Programme Development Process. Each of these arrows lead to appropriate resources to help the user consider the associated programme development task.
When ready, click into phase two, the word Planning. This opens a dropdown menu, revealing the next steps Programme Design and Partnership Process.
As above, continue working your way through phases 3 through to 5, to explore subsequent phases of the Enterprise Engagement Framework.
Talent Development & The Triple Helix Model
There are great opportunities for universities which can navigate the triple helix model (university-government-industry) and work with organisations to nurture their talent development pipelines and futureproof the economy in turbulent times.
What worked yesterday will not work tomorrow. Alvin Toffler asserts, ‘the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn’.
The university that learns to adapt its systems to accommodate a new type of learner will prosper. The hope is that this Enterprise Engagement Framework plays a small role in stimulating a mind shift in how we service the part-time professional learner experience at TU Dublin.