... the Kotler and Murphy (1981) model to guide its strategic planning process. The Kotler and Murphy (1981) model espouses a planning process comprising six elements: namely, environmental analysis, resource analysis, goal formulation, strategy formulation, organization design and system's design. Similarly...

... of institutions and regulatory bodies. Then, hierarchical cluster analysis was used to identify strategic groups and institutional competitive strategies in the UAE higher education market. A panel of experts helped interpret and explain the cluster results. Findings Eight distinct institutional clusters were...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Medical education Strategy Higher education Leadership and management Porter’s five forces framework Medical education and research is one of the most highly regulated disciplines in higher education. It is an intensely evidence-driven professional...

...Francis M. Mathooko; Martin Ogutu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish the extent to which Porter’s five competitive forces (PFCF) framework, among other factors drive the choice of response strategies adopted by public universities in Kenya. Design/methodology/approach...

...Lucill Curtis; Martin Samy Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify whether UK business schools need to change their strategy, to adopt a more business-like approach, without compromising their role as providers of “quality education”. Business-like activities, as explained by Dart (2004...

... Organizational change Strategy When considering the changes that face education and the challenge of leading schools into a successful future, school leaders encounter two problems. The first of these is articulated by Hamel and Prahalad (1994, pp. 4‐5): So the urgent drives out the important...

... Strategy Schools Case studies Modern organizations operate in a dynamic environment shaped by factors which include technological advances, increased competition, changes in customer preferences, and evolving regulatory practices. The challenge for today’s firm is to develop capabilities...

...J. Styler Educational management Strategy MBA courses This is a text that will be of considerable value to all those following an MBA course, or one of the numerous courses in educational management. It is the type of text that can be regarded as a bible, in that students will regularly...

... the assessment processes. The strategies followed by the department heads as a response to the external assessments differed nevertheless significantly from a status quo orientation that triggered resistance against and attempts to ignore the assessments, to a more future‐oriented mode where the process was seen...

... (Quirke, 1995) the following new objectives are also paramount: © MCB UP Limited 1998 Audit Communications Employees Management Strategy The communication audit does not measure communication performance simply for the sake of doing so. A prescriptive phase of the communication...

... strategies. How much more true this is likely to be for international schools, where staff bring forward previous experience from a wide range of national and cultural backgrounds. Certainly expectations will differ. Again, the point is stressed by Hargreaves and Hopkins (1991, p. viii): every...

...David M. Brock The aim of this project was to investigate whether combinations of strategies, planning modes and levels of autonomy are associated with superior college effectiveness relative to other combinations of these variables. It was hypothesized that a college pursuing a prospector strategy...

... the reduction of barriers to trade and exchange, higher education institutions, particularly in the UK, are slowly emerging as organizations driven by the commercial imperative of market‐led forces. Yet their strategies for allocating resources are embedded in models of higher education organizations as public...

.... In the absence of a true corporate strategy she has focused her efforts on working in the private and voluntary sector– often neglected in the power broking of local authority services– and on the creation of single‐issue projects to further the development of co‐ordinated services. In such a situation co...

... and suggests local, regional and national strategies through which the proposed new funding councils, the colleges and other providers of vocational education/training might work effectively in partnership. The merger of small colleges into large, multi‐sited institutions is seen as fundamental...

... these harbingers of success is to risk long‐term damage to the organization and considerably reduce the likelihood of sustained and self‐generating organizational improvement. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Higher education Implementation Quality Strategy TQM 4 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL...

... for it. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Higher Education Planning Quality Strategy TOWARDS THE RESPONSIVE POLYTECHNIC 13 Polytechnics are going through turbulent times; their legal and political status will probably change, but it is not clear how. They are exposed to competition in new and unfamiliar...