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The book is broken into three sections that are loaded with examples and stories from educators, schools and business. Part I: Will define and bring together the three most important concepts in creating long-term success: value, strategy, and innovation. Part II: Covers the Five Big Tools of strategic change. There are more than this, but these five proven tools are a great place to start. There are concrete, relatively simple ways for you and your school team to use these tools to build both a comfort and capacity for change that can improve learning and create more excitement about what your school has to offer. Part III: Deals with the pragmatic reality of how to compete in an evolving marketplace of customer-families who have choices about how and where their kids will be educated. In these chapters I share what works for schools as well as lessons from other businesses that are very different from schools.
Innovation: The Link Between Value and Strategy
Innovation: The Link Between Value and Strategy
With even the start of a winning strategy, schools ask, “What do we need to do to go from where we are to where we want to be?” Keeping what is most valuable, and changing what needs to be changed, is Job #3 in beginning to deliver on a strong value proposition … which leads to continued demand for your school. Innovation is, simply, making those changes.
We have defined value: promising and delivering what your customers want and need.
We have clarified strategy: making choices that enable your school to continuously deliver on a winning value proposition.
Now we can link these together in the very real world where the demands we ...
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