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Strategies for effective school management. Srinivasan R. A good strategy should …. Connect to purpose Provide focus Guide choices Illuminate relationships Define measurement parameters Address the external environment Allow for adaptation.
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Strategies for effective school management Srinivasan R
A good strategy should … • Connect to purpose • Provide focus • Guide choices • Illuminate relationships • Define measurement parameters • Address the external environment • Allow for adaptation Source: Childress, S (2004). Note on strategy in public education, Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard University, PEL-011, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Strategic Leadership for CBSE Principals
External Analysis Strategic Choice Strategy Implementation Competitive Advantage Vision/ Mission Objectives Internal Analysis Evolving a strategy Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Strategic Leadership for CBSE Principals
External Analysis Strategic Choice Strategy Implementation Competitive Advantage Vision/ Mission Objectives Internal Analysis Articulating the core purpose … • Defining what the firm is, why does the firm exists … • A larger purpose, with clarity, and shared through the organization Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Strategic Leadership for CBSE Principals
External Analysis Strategic Choice Strategy Implementation Competitive Advantage Vision/ Mission Objectives Internal Analysis Appreciating the context … • Understanding the social, institutional, regulatory, competitive, and the economic context • Appreciate the role of technology and its impact on your business Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Strategic Leadership for CBSE Principals
External Analysis Strategic Choice Strategy Implementation Competitive Advantage Vision/ Mission Objectives Internal Analysis Analyze your competencies … • Know your skills, capabilities, and competencies • Analyze how you add value Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Strategic Leadership for CBSE Principals
External Analysis Strategic Choice Strategy Implementation Competitive Advantage Vision/ Mission Objectives Internal Analysis Choose your way … • Decide what your scope is • Define your sources of advantage • Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, Non-substitutable • Holdup, Slack Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Strategic Leadership for CBSE Principals
Three dimensions of strategy Frery, F (2006). The fundamental dimensions of strategy, MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol.48, No.1 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Strategic Leadership for CBSE Principals
External Analysis Strategic Choice Strategy Implementation Competitive Advantage Vision/ Mission Objectives Internal Analysis Executing the strategy … • Alignment of firm’s actions to leverage its sources of competitive advantage • Operational alignment of strategy, structure, systems, culture, and leadership Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Strategic Leadership for CBSE Principals
Strategic sweetspot … Collis, DJ., and Rukstad, MG. (2008). Can you say what your strategy is? Harvard Business Review, Apr 2008 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Strategic Leadership for CBSE Principals
Leadership … Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Strategic Leadership for CBSE Principals
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