How (not) to make Strategic Plan: Jurassic Park Style
In their recent presentation, “Jurassic Strategy: What Not to Do When Choosing Goals, KPIs, and Benchmarks,” Susan and Emily used the fictional story of Jurassic Park to explore how choosing poor strategic goals, KPIs, and benchmarks can make an institution ineffective (or fill it with escaped, blood-thirsty, prehistoric reptiles, as the case may be.)
Find Your Institution’s Pumpkin Spice Latte
If you’re looking around at other institutions’ products trying to figure out how to replicate them, you’ve already lost. Don’t come at the problem from the perspective of “this thing is wildly popular; how can we do a version of it?” Instead, try “what product are we uniquely equipped to make?”
Is Your Data Scamming You? Measure Outcomes for True Success
Let’s be honest, if there was a way to achieve our goals without carefully working toward and monitoring progress, we’d all do it. That’s not a referendum on our character; that’s just part of being an intelligent primate.
Nothing but a Mission
This is the story of Theranos—a company started by a 19-year-old Stanford University drop-out who hated needles and had an ambitious mission, but really only had a mission. So how was she able to trick intelligent and discerning people into investing in a product that didn’t actually work? The answer is three-fold.
Higher Ed's Barrel of Opportunities: Lessons from Independent Stave
Quality improvement should not be a result of accreditation or regulatory requirements. It should be important to every institution for the very basic fact that we want to deliver quality programs that continue meeting the needs of students.