... 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...

... Schools Leadership Organizational change Strategy In a paper with Professor Guilbert Hentschke, of the University of Southern California, we consider the changing resource and organisational patterns that are impacting on education (see Davies and Hentschke, 2002). To analyse these patterns, we...

... observations and prescriptions for the boarding school may be helpful to other organizations that may be facing similar decline in their environments. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Organizational performance Effectiveness Strategy Schools Case studies MHA’s mission statement is: to prepare...

...J. Styler The text is conveniently structured into four parts. The first part is a comprehensive examination of the role of strategy in the marketplace, followed by a thought provoking review of strategy from a systems perspective. Of particular value is part three, which examines how strategies...

..., during and after 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...

... the principal tools utilised in the implementation of a communication audit, and discusses the benefits which this approach offers to school management teams. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Audit Communications Employees Management Strategy Communication audits represent an approach and set...

... strategies. Most of the schools are independent institutions governed by boards with considerable autonomy, albeit subject to considerations of local need and international recognition or accreditation. While this offers great flexibility and opportunity for innovation, it also presents a situation...

...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...

... of that competence would be the ability to work together, to be inspired and to help each other. The value is attached to the fit between the resources, strategy and the environment. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Perhaps it might be a question of “physician heal thyself” if it is suggested that universities take...

.... 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. © MCB UP Limited 1995...

... 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...