Following Council’s quinquennial strategy weekend in Birmingham in March 2011 and subsequent discussions of Council and Executive Board, the IMA strategy for the next five years has been formulated.
The purpose of this paper is to define a strategy for the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications for the period 2012-2016.
The strategy is set out in terms of a vision, a mission and a set of goals.
The vision captures, as a single statement, the ambition of the Institute in terms of its position at the heart of the application of mathematics in the United Kingdom. The mission defines the intentions of the Institute in terms of the value it intends to bring its membership and mathematics. The goals of the Institute are set out as a set of measures it intends to take to deliver on that mission, organised under various headings. Each measure is accompanied by a summary justification and desired outcome.
The overarching objective of the strategy is for the Institute to grow its membership by a significant number. It will do this by providing services that are highly relevant to its membership, and which will provide a means to extend its reach to new members largely outside of academia.
