The Importance of Impact Tish Wagner Michael Organ

The Importance of Impact Tish Wagner & Michael Organ AMBA Asia Pacific Conference for Deans and Directors 13 November 2018

Michael Organ and Tish Wagner • • Manager of Repository Services at Wollongong University Three decades experience with research, archives, digitization, open access, publishing, Researcher and faculty liaison Previous member of Australian Parliament • • Solution strategist for schools of business and law (globally) Twenty plus years experience in technology for higher education Product specialist for library software and digital tools California vineyard owner and winemaker

IMPACT • Why it matters • What you do to create impact for your program and your school • How you keep and grow your impact globally

What Matters to Business School Deans • High quality faculty research • Rankings • Successful Alumni • Academic offerings (innovative) that enhance institutional positioning • Faculty Engagement to enhance institutional positioning • Marketing of programs and institutional success highlighting innovative curriculum/distinctive approach • Differentiators from competition • Faculty, students successes, awards, accolades, discoveries

Five Insights for Impact Name Recognition Promotion of Faculty Research Differentiators of Program Alumni Success Showcase of Students

Examples of IR Impact https: //repository. up enn. edu/wharton/ https: //ink. library. smu. edu. sg/ https: //ro. uow. edu. au/aabfj/

Impact 2018 - Executive MBA ranked 1 st in Australia (CEO Magazine) - Master of Business ranked 2 nd in Australia and top 20 globally (QS) - MBA ranked in top 100 globally (QS)

Institutional impact of the IR • • Rankings – exposure of research, evidence of leadership Image – create through promotion of the work of the organisation Partnerships – support scholarly communication Mission – integration with core objectives of the organisation

Impact Measure Full text downloads

Generating Impact Scholarly outputs - Journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, books etc. Other ways - Publishing Open Access journals, books, reports etc. Archiving conferences Special collections: A/V, images, ephemera Data collections

Impact - Examples • High usage, external to RO – https: //ro. uow. edu. au/sspapers/2072 • High citations + high downloads, reflecting the importance of RO – https: //ro. uow. edu. au/scipapers/1259 • High social media count, low citation figures – https: //ro. uow. edu. au/smhpapers/4652

Exposing Expertise Selected Works profiles