Strategic approaches to managing change
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The issue
Technology is making a dramatic impact in the way organisations function. Roles and responsibilities are shifting and staff are having to keep up with the ever increasing speed of digital progress in their specialist field.
Planning future services means leaders need to understand the drivers for change so they can make informed decisions to support digital transformation. Strategic approaches to technology can enable staff to adapt quickly to change factors such as funding and national policy.
What you can do
We believe you can make change pay dividends if it helps your organisation operate more efficiently while also meeting strategic objectives.
Develop your birds-eye view...
When planning change, it pays to focus on services rather than systems and implement new methods in a small project before scaling-up.
Our guide to managing strategic activity will take you through an approach to building an overarching institutional strategy, while our information on business intelligence will help you access the data you need to plan it.
Our resources on improving organisational efficiency cover topics such as cloud computing. Jisc has a range of shared digital services which can deliver potential savings.
…and closer to the ground
Once you’ve identified where change is needed, you’ll need to take action to implement it. Our change management guide can help you take the next step.
Download our enhancing the digital student experience postcards (pdf) to start the conversation around the issues of enabling digital change and our guide embracing sector transformation can help you understand the ramifications of change within the further education and skills sector.
If you are going through a merger or other period of significant change, our quick guide to mergers can help you understand key issues in this area within further and higher education.
Read our step-by-step guide to mproving business processes to help you review and enhance processes across your organisation.
Strategies for building digital capability
To thrive in a digital environment building digital capability can support the process of change. We're working with stakeholders to equip leaders and staff with the tools and resources needed to improve their digital leadership skills.
Our digital leaders programme can enhance your digital capability and your ability to lead a digitally driven team, while our guide to developing organisational approaches to digital capability can help your organisation embrace the digital age.
Measure the financial impact
Our Financial X-ray service can benchmark you against peers, and provide a detailed analysis of your IT costs.