Lawrie Phipps
Leadership in context
Changing the learning landscape
• Small projects based on issues identified by institutional leaders
working at Pro vice-chancellor level
• Projects based on Research, Teaching and Learning, Administration
and Business and Community Engagement
Examples from the JISC Transformations and Building Capacity programmes
Leadership success factors
Institution-wide Agreement
• Almost all of the issues had an impact outside of the remit
of the leader’s remit
• Cross institutional teams where needed
Enforcing Compliance
• “This is going to happen and you will support me”
• Taking decisions and providing a framework to enable
support for the decision-making process
Leadership success factors
Alignment
• All of the realised projects supported at least one of the
Institutional Strategies
• Benefit and Value
• The projects weren’t exploratory or pilots, they all sought to
demonstrate clear benefits and realise value to the
Institution’s staff and students
Case Studies
Transition and
Retention
Inspiring innovative
pedagogy (e)
Assessment and
Feedback
Digital Literacy
Employability
PGR Supervision
• Customer Relationship
Management
(Enterprise)
• Supporting staff
through accreditation
• Creating a Mobile
campus
• Curriculum
Transformation
Modelling ChangeBuilding capacity > Transformations
Using Enterprise Architecture as a tool• Describes how information systems, processes, units and
people work as a whole• Some models are extremely complex – others less so• It’s not a way of auditing, it supports decision making
Modelling Change
what your organisation doesthe processes by which it does these thingswho carries out the activitieswhat data is used, how it flows through the organisation and where it is storedwhat information technologies are employed and how they are usedthe relationships and dependencies between all of the above
Modelling ChangeJISC DataPool Project
Modelling ChangeJISC SMUDIE Project
(Attendance Register Model)
Modelling ChangeJISC Coeducate Project
Your intervention / change projectWhat does your current model look like?What is it?Who does it?What are the processes?Are there any technologies or data involved? Where?
And what are the relationships and dependencies between them?
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JISC Organisational Development & Transformations
Programme
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Planning for complexity and change
Changing the learning landscape
• Strategic planning tool used to make flexible long-term plans
• The method is based on creating a series of ‘different futures’
generated from a combination of known factors, such as
demographics, with plausible alternative political, economic, social,
technical, legal and environmental (PESTLE) trends which are key
driving forces.
A brief introduction to Scenario Thinking
Scenario Process
Scoping the issue
Trends analysis
Building Scenarios
Creating options
Testing the options
Decisions
Scenario Process
Scoping the issue
Trends analysis
Building Scenarios
Creating options
Testing the options
Decisions
Stage One
Pestle trends
Issue
Context
Scenario
Generating IdeasBlue ideas. Normal ideas, standard procedures – these don’t require a separate workshop/activity to come up with these Red ideas. Original, innovative but realistic in ambitionYellow ideas. Very creative and inventive but not yet feasible
Image – COCD Ideas Matrix
Stage Two
Scenario One
Scenario Two
Scenario Three Scenario Four
New Service
Lawrie Phipps
JISC Organisational Development & Transformations
Programme
@lawrie
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