Strategic Challenges

Both the further and higher education sectors are constantly under pressure to meet new strategic priorities and cope with the effects of profound and far-reaching change. Such moves may sometimes be driven by changes in government and funding council policy, or simply just reflect the after-effects of widespread socio-economic, cultural or technologically inspired change.

Constant 'environment scanning' as part of your strategic planning processes can help to identify current and potential strategic challenges which may impact upon your institution and influence its future direction, management and operation. JISC Advance services such as JISC infoNet also partially exist to help keep institutions abreast of these changes and to provide a range of resources designed to help them respond to them. Our strategy resources include further advice regarding environment scanning techniques and work around Business Intelligence to better inform your institutional decision making and help you to prepare for future strategic challenges.

In the meantime, it is worth considering how The Bologna Process weaves many threads through a number of strategic challenges for institutions, and indeed how some of the infrastructure and mechanisms of the Process and related initiatives can be of use in assisting institutions with addressing these challenges, the first of which are outlined here.