TweetThe Attributes Desired of the Head Mal Lee and Roger Broadie ( This is significant rework of our 2014 article of the same name that addressed the attributes of those principals leading successful digital schools. Two years on and we have been able to examine the attributes in what are now mature digital organisations – …
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The Digital Acumen of Principals
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie The principal of a digital school – as Lee and Gaffney articulated in 2008 (Lee and Gaffney) -must have a high level of digital acumen. As the chief architect of a digitally based organization, where every facet of the operation, in and outside the school will be increasingly reliant upon …
The School ‘Chief Digital Officer’
Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Every digital school needs a senior staff member responsible for daily providing the school community the digital ecosystem that will enable it to realise its shaping educational and digital vision. It is not a job for a committee. It is a task for a high level professional educator. It …
Accenture 2016 Technology Review
TweetNo sooner had I posted our article on school’s needing to meet its client’s rising digital expectations but Accenture stressed …..out in the marketplace, digital customers are also maturing. Their dramatically transformed expectations of service, speed and personalization are just the start (Accenture, 2016, p 6) For those interested in the digital evolution of organisations …
The Critical Role of the Principal
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie The more we examine the digital evolution of schooling the more we are convinced the principal is critical to the successful digital evolution of the school. An apt school principal is as important as the CEO of a digital master in business. Westerman and his colleagues observed of the digital …
Leading Your School’s Digital Evolution
TweetA10-week program for school leaders globally If you want to lead your school’s digital evolution this is the program for you. Work directly with two of the world’s leaders in the shaping of your school’s strategy. The schools that have normalised the whole school use of the digital are discovering enormous educational, social and economic …
Schools Have to Go Digital to Remain Viable
TweetMal Lee The cover article in this month’s Educational Technology Solutions is one by me that contends all schools have to go digital to remain viable. A copy of that article is attached or can be got from the Educational Technology Solutions website. Interestingly in presenting to three groups of school leaders in the past …
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Strategy not Technology Drives Digital Transformation
TweetThe MIT Sloan Management Review in – its 2015 research report – on ‘Strategy not Technology Drives Digital Transformation’ is well worth downloading and analysing. Go to – http://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/strategy-drives-digital-transformation/ While drawing on the developments within industry it is highly applicable to the digital evolution and transformation of schools.
Pathfinder School Works as a Hub in System Change Model
Tweet Mal Lee Broulee Public School (Australia), one of those as yet rare cadre of pathfinder schools that have normalised the whole school use of the digital and created a 24/7/365 digital school ecosystem, is playing a central role in a new model of system wide school development that is being implemented by New South Wales …
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Are you an analogue or digital leader?
TweetMal Lee Bhaduri and Fischer have had published in the Forbes business magazine of February 19 a very revealing comparison between the thinking of what they term ‘analog’ and ‘digital’ leaders. It can be read at – http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfischer/2015/03/19/are-you-an-analog-or-digital-leader/ While written with business leaders in mind you’ll soon see the parallel with the school leaders working within …