Building digital strategy for school trusts

Overview

This CST masterclass will develop your understanding of what building a digital strategy for your trust involves and the considerations around structuring, resourcing and embedding it.

The course shows how digital strategy is rooted in the wider context of your trust growth or development strategy and aligns to your values as an organisation. It will offer a model for strategy development that will explore four pillars of digital transformation - technology and infrastructure; data and insight; privacy and data security; and ed tech and innovation - and how they interconnect. It will consider how and when to engage your board in this process and highlight the cultural challenges in translating your strong strategic intent into the delivery of successful and impactful digital initiatives across your trust.

Please be sure to check our fees before making your booking.

Who is it for?

• Chief executives
• Chief operating officers
• Trust leaders with responsibility for the development of digital strategy

How you will benefit

You will gain:

• An understanding of how an effective digital strategy can enable school trust growth and development through the alignment of organisational and digital objectives.
• Insight into trust leaders' perceptions of digital transformation alongside identified barriers and challenges.
• An overview of the successful approaches taken from digital leaders who have implemented digital strategies within school trusts.
• Appreciation of the need for digital maturity through the development of digital leadership capability and capacity alongside on-going digital literacy development of the workforce.
• Recommendations of tools and resources to support your digital strategy.

Seminar leaders

Jonny Wathen, Chief Information Officer, TransforMATive 

Lisa Hawker, Chief Information Officer, TransforMATive 

Previous participants said

"It was very useful to get the expert overview of this whole area, which can be bewildering to a non-IT professional.” 

"Jonny was a fantastic presenter with excellent subject knowledge.” 

"CST brings together an otherwise disparate community of educators and those who support education. It's a hugely valuable gathering of minds.” 

"Thought provoking session with plenty of take-aways and follow up for me.” 

When and where

Bookings are now closed for this masterclass. Please check back here for future course dates.

Course summary

Seminar 1: Building for the Future: Establishing the digital foundations

The first seminar will explore:

• What is a Digital Strategy?
• Introducing a four-pillar model to digital strategy design.
• Establishing a Trust-wide digital baseline.

Seminar 2: Building for the Future: Progression through innovation

The second seminar will consider:

• The importance of establishing a digital vision.
• The value of technology integrations for business operations.
• Creating a digital literacy entitlement for your workforce.

Seminar 3: Building for the Future: Realising transformation

The final seminar will cover:

• Digital Transformation through business model innovation.
• Enhanced ways of working using technologies.
• Cultivating a digital ecosystem.

Fees

CST Members £260+VAT / Non-members £330+VAT

View our Terms and Conditions.

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