Our strategy – Future Foundations

Our work on the strategic goals set out in Future Foundations has already begun as part of the overall transformation programme following the Bichard RICS Review. However, this new, refreshed vision will guide our strategic direction for the next three years.

The contributions of our members are a vital part of RICS’ ability to be a global leader, offering valuable resources, data and reporting in all areas of surveying practice. As part of the transformation programme following Bichard RICS Review, we have expanded opportunities for members to be involved in RICS’ governance structure, delivering the new strategy in all world markets. We encourage members to visit the new RICS Strategy Hub, explore the strategy in detail and share with their professional networks.

It is vital that we are set up for success to deliver our new strategy and continue to transform RICS for the future. To ensure we achieve our vision, we need to have a top-level Executive structure with clear accountabilities and an operating model that enables us to become a truly experience-led organisation.

We will enhance member value to ensure RICS is a professional body of choice both now, and in the future, creating a community where individuals from all backgrounds are welcomed and can thrive. We will strengthen trust in the profession so we can champion sustainable practices and help safeguard the planet. This will see RICS and its members providing solutions to challenges such as decarbonisation and biodiversity, playing our part to ensure the natural and built environment is resilient to future climate change.

These commitments will ensure a world class organisation that delivers lasting change. Where members have pride in their designation, are made stronger as a professional body, and our many stakeholders recognise us as leading on the issues that matter.

We will undertake a number of activities and gather data to measure the impact of the new strategy. These will include member satisfaction surveys, targeted questions in the regular Survey of the Profession rounds, as well as the already established accountability measures within the RICS annual business plans and yearly targets.

To ensure we achieve our vision of a natural and built environment that is sustainable, resilient and inclusive for all, we have made some changes in our Executive structure to ensure clear accountabilities and an operating model that enables us to become a truly experience-led organisation.

This change will enable us to put our members and other stakeholders’ needs at the heart of everything we do, making sure that they have a first-class experience when they interact with RICS.