That would require something that is mostly missing in universities: strategy. Cooperation between departments and colleagues without direct sight on short term

That would require something that is mostly missing in universities: strategy. Cooperation between departments and colleagues without direct sight on short term benefits is very slim. I'm quite close to my local university (father worked there, alumnus, wife works there, friends who are professor; it's a quite good Euro-business and law school). The thing I've learned: a university is more akin to a village than to a business even though the administrators try to run it as a business (but have terms a lot shorter than most professors). There is no clear line of control. Professors are tenured and some have super-star tendencies. Budgets are fragmented between departments, groups, and in our country are built upon subsidies for specific research tasks. There is a lot of cooperation between individual researchers in fields. But that is a response to it satisficing the demands of subsidies. Ýou could call that strategy, but I'd call that 'external motivation'. Strategy as in internal motivation: "How can we get greater research results from all our research staff by leveraging technology" is a question hardly asked.