Strategies for effective school management

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Strategies for effective school management

• Srinivasan R

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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
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Evolving a strategy
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Articulating the core purpose

• Defining what the firm is, why does the firm
  exists
• A larger purpose, with clarity, and shared
  through the organization

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Appreciating the context

• Understanding the social, institutional,
  regulatory, competitive, and the economic context
• Appreciate the role of technology and its impact
  on your business

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Analyze your competencies

• Know your skills, capabilities, and competencies
• Analyze how you add value

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Choose your way

• Decide what your scope is
• Define your sources of advantage
• Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, Non-substitutable
• Holdup, Slack

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Three dimensions of strategy
Frery, F (2006). The fundamental dimensions of
strategy, MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol.48,
No.1
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Executing the strategy

• Alignment of firms actions to leverage its
  sources of competitive advantage
• Operational alignment of strategy, structure,
  systems, culture, and leadership

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Strategic sweetspot
Collis, DJ., and Rukstad, MG. (2008). Can you say
what your strategy is? Harvard Business Review,
Apr 2008
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Leadership
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Thank you

• srini_at_iimb.ernet.in