Our Strategy

We achieved a major milestone towards becoming a strategy-led organisation when our Board signed off on a new organisation-wide strategy, Tā Mātou Rautaki, in late 2021. 

Tā Mātou Rautaki is our plan to achieve our long-term aim of leading agri-based science innovation. It describes who we are, how we deliver our science, what our future-focused research will look like, and how we will know we are succeeding in our mission.

We have identified four areas of focus to create a thriving culture and generate meaningful and enduring impact. They are interlinked, with success in one being tied to another.

They are:

• Science Excellence: strengthening connection with science vitality and science excellence
• Partnerships: Fostering strong collaboration, incuding partnerships
• Mātauranga Māori: Fully embedding te ao Māori within our ways of thinking and working
• Smart Investments: Ensuring that we invest appropriately in a talented workforce, fit-for-purpose infrastructure, resources and processes.

Our full strategy is available for download below.

Our plan to transform as an organisation through te ao Māori is underway with our Te Ara Tika strategy. It directly addresses the barriers Māori people and organisations experience working with a traditional science organisation such as AgResearch.

A key driver of the strategy is to bring a unique Māori approach to our science, and create meaningful impact for Māori by:

• Embracing mātauranga Māori as an equal knowledge system
• Being impact focused and delivering to Māori land, businesses and communities
• Honouring the Treaty relationship our partners have with the Crown
• Co-leading, co-designing and implementing to build the capabilities of our partners and ourselves
• Aligning our values to the values of our partners.

Our Te Ara Tika strategy is available for download below.