Strategic Planning Rights and Wrongs
To begin, think of the strategic process as a journey of discovery. If you remember Dante’s Inferno, every meaningful journey starts with a warning: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here.
To begin, think of the strategic process as a journey of discovery. If you remember Dante’s Inferno, every meaningful journey starts with a warning: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here.
Digital transformations are actually transformations of mindset, business model, culture, and operations. These are people problems, in the main, not technology issues. Unless you have an ambitious and articulated strategy and a map for aligning all of the people who make up the culture, sorry, but the effort will drown in the quicksand of company politics, quagmired in a lack of hands-on, enterprise-wide change management training.
You can see the rise of whiteboards and bean bags instead of desks, maker spaces, flex areas, collaboration zones, as well as more media-editing suites. Some of these schools look like a Design Studio or Architecture firm. Even a big educational book publisher, like Pearson, offer a suite of products with such transformational taglines as “Learning Without Limits” these products and services include helping school systems change their approach to education from the classroom layout to their entire orientation to curriculum.