How to create, structure and embed a digital strategy for trust growth
This course will give you an expert overview of how your digital strategy is linked to trust growth and provide models for strategy development that enable digital transformation. It will also consider how and when to engage your board and stakeholders in this process and explore how to overcome cultural challenges to deliver successful and impactful digital initiatives across your trust.
Who is it for?
- Chief executives
- Chief operating officers
- Trust leaders responsible for digital strategy
What you will gain
This course will give you:
- An understanding of how an effective digital strategy can enable school trust growth
- Insight into trust leaders' perceptions of digital transformation including identified challenges
- Knowledge of proven approaches to implementing digital strategy within school trusts
- An understanding on the need for digital maturity and ongoing digital literacy development across your workforce
- An awareness of the tools and resources that can support you in digital strategy development
Course overview
As well as exploring the importance of digital strategy in the wider context of your trust, we will explore four pillars for digital transformation. Our expert speakers will take you on a deep dive into technology and infrastructure; data and insight; privacy and data security and; ed tech and innovation – and how they all interconnect.
Seminar one: Establishing the digital foundations
- What is a digital strategy?
- A four-pillar model for digital strategy design
- Establishing a trust-wide digital baseline
Seminar two: Progression through innovation
- The importance of establishing a digital vision
- The value of technology integrations for business operations
- Improving digital literacy in your workforce
Seminar three: Realising transformation
- Digital transformation through business model innovation
- Enhanced ways of working using technologies
- Cultivating a digital ecosystem across your trust
It was very useful to get the expert overview of this whole area, which can be bewildering to a non-IT professional.
03:30 pm
18 Mar 2026 02:00 pm to
03:30 pm
25 Mar 2026 02:00 pm to
03:30 pm
- CST members £270+VAT
- Non-members £330+VAT