Metrics, mapping, and modelling for masterful management in higher education

• Main Author: Glynn, Graham (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025.
• Subjects: Universities and colleges > Business management.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781836622123
• DOI: 10.1108/9781836622109
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 pages)

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are under immense pressure to become more efficient, reduce fees, and lower student debt, all while maintaining an expected high standard of academic excellence. This pressure creates the sense that HEIs must evolve to become more 'business-like' but fa...

Table of Contents:

• Part one: The big picture
• Chapter 1. Introduction, vision, goals, and benefits
• Chapter 2. Learn the science behind the sentient initiative's innovative approach to management
• Part two: Support broad stakeholder comprehension for better performance and management
• Chapter 3. Provide a one-stop shopping location for all information and data about the institution
• Chapter 4. Make it easy to find information and resources, and to get help from the right person or office
• Chapter 5. Empower all stakeholders with an understanding of the nature, and with the ability to conceptualize and understand the complex, intertwined operations of the institution
• Part three: Empower existing and enable new management strategies
• Chapter 6. Apply integrative thinking and backward design to create a functionally unified institution that operates more cohesively
• Chapter 7. Make knowledge-informed, and justifiable decisions and resource allocations
• Chapter 8. Use transparency and active information sharing to generate trust and confidence in the institution's leadership
• Part four: Optimize operational effectiveness and efficiency
• Chapter 9. Explore options while modelling the organization's group structure
• Chapter 10. Create a curriculum that is optimized for maximal student learning
• Chapter 11. Plan and clearly communicate information about courses, and their sections
• Chapter 12. Manage curricular offerings and their evolution
• Chapter 13. Manage space allocation and leverage facilities to support teaching
• Chapter 14. Optimize enrollment
• Chapter 15. Save time and increase compliance by streamlining, clarifying, and improving institutional processes
• Chapter 16. Multifunctional tools provided by the skm
• Part five: Deliver power to the people
• Chapter 17. Understand organizational unit capabilities and use this to inform employee hiring and assignment
• Chapter 18. Improve student success - increase graduation rates and decrease time to graduation
• Chapter 19. Accurately assess status and current conditions
• Chapter 20. Evaluate and assess student learning
• Chapter 21. Provide a view from the balcony - easily appraise the performance of the institution's interdependent elements and know where intervention is needed
• Part six: Deliberately drive institutional evolution
• Chapter 22. Create an inclusive and robust planning process that prepares the institution for change
• Chapter 23. Gather input, analyze, and develop a strategic plan focused on beneficial change
• Chapter 24. Use the strategic plan to efficiently drive institutional evolution
• Part seven: Catalyze innovation and reduce duplication of effort by engaging and sharing with the world-wide higher education community
• Chapter 25. Empower innovation and efficiency through community sharing
• Chapter 26. Network and leverage mutual support - the hello community
• Part eight: Deploy, update, and contribute to the sentient initiative
• Chapter 27. Manage skm deployment.
• Chapter 28. Support resources to help with skm implementation
• Chapter 29. Keep up with or contribute to the skm's ongoing development
• Chapter 30. Additional applications of the skm
• Part nine: Appendices.