Strategic Planning Microsoft
Education Impact is an independent global fellowship of the world’s leading consultants focused on the effective use of information technology to transform teaching, learning and institutional administration.
Its fellows are leading strategists who share your vision and appreciation for transformative power of technology in education
Education briefing paper:
Strategic planning
Strategic planning is a relatively recent and fast evolving field of human achievement, which is now being used to great effect in the transformation of education.
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Competitive advantage for firms aligning their business strategies and their information and communication technologies (ICT) strategies has been convincingly demonstrated in numerous sectors, including the financial services sector,1 tourism sector,2 management of human resources, and outsourcing.
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Application of strategic planning to the education sector began later but similar findings have emerged over the past 10 years,3,4 an increase of 41 places in the world ranking of Leeds
University following strategic alignment and scorecard methodology.5
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Numerous pieces of research suggest that a key factor when things go wrong is the lack of strategic planning in the implementation of ICT.
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Moving from operational planning to strategic planning requires a common understanding of core aims to be established first.
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There are a wide range of methods which can be used together to build a strategic plan (see section on strategic analysis).
Without a strategic rationale to guide the national use of technology in education, ICT policy is only operational. Policy becomes techno-centric, promoting the purchase of equipment or the training of teachers without providing a strong educational purpose or goal.
Robert. Kozma, 20076
Strategic Planning can be used to transform education.
Setting
Envisioning
strategic goals
Grows capacity for strategic thinking
Its fellows are leading strategists who share your vision and appreciation for transformative power of technology in education
Education briefing paper:
Strategic planning
Strategic planning is a relatively recent and fast evolving field of human achievement, which is now being used to great effect in the transformation of education.
•
Competitive advantage for firms aligning their business strategies and their information and communication technologies (ICT) strategies has been convincingly demonstrated in numerous sectors, including the financial services sector,1 tourism sector,2 management of human resources, and outsourcing.
•
Application of strategic planning to the education sector began later but similar findings have emerged over the past 10 years,3,4 an increase of 41 places in the world ranking of Leeds
University following strategic alignment and scorecard methodology.5
•
Numerous pieces of research suggest that a key factor when things go wrong is the lack of strategic planning in the implementation of ICT.
•
Moving from operational planning to strategic planning requires a common understanding of core aims to be established first.
•
There are a wide range of methods which can be used together to build a strategic plan (see section on strategic analysis).
Without a strategic rationale to guide the national use of technology in education, ICT policy is only operational. Policy becomes techno-centric, promoting the purchase of equipment or the training of teachers without providing a strong educational purpose or goal.
Robert. Kozma, 20076
Strategic Planning can be used to transform education.
Setting
Envisioning
strategic goals
Grows capacity for strategic thinking