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We Can Do It!
We Can Do It! Improving the Relevancy and Value of Higher Education Using Lean Management introduces the Lean management system to university leaders and informs them of how Lean management can be used as a preferred means to address current and future challenges in higher education. It provides critical information that university leaders need to know to correctly begin their practice of Lean management. Specifically, its application in academics, which is the principal source of value creation in higher education.
The challenges in higher education cannot be met by using the same old tired routines of budget cutting, consolidating academic and support units, leveraging procurement spend, consolidating information technology, disruptive re-organizations, and so on. These painful, zero-sum (win-lose) approaches to solving problems drive people apart and usually do not lead to the kinds of substantial or lasting improvements demanded by students and other stakeholders. They also reflect a dramatic void in creativity and innovative thinking.
Written for university leaders, from trustees to department chairs, We Can Do It! presents a proven path for improving teaching, individual courses, and academic programs. It describes how to create and deliver improved educational services while also improving access, affordability, and attainment. It will motivate administrators, staff, and faculty to learn a better way to improve academics, student engagement, graduation rates, and post-graduation student success, while also improving quality and reducing costs in non-zero-sum (win-win) ways.
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and public and private sector leaders will also find this book to be valuable and informative, as will departments of higher education, legislators, and governors overseeing public universities.
We Can Do It! describes how the Lean management system is a far more productive approach to improving the value proposition in academics. It also offers the unique opportunity to do good without doing harm.
The challenges in higher education cannot be met by using the same old tired routines of budget cutting, consolidating academic and support units, leveraging procurement spend, consolidating information technology, disruptive re-organizations, and so on. These painful, zero-sum (win-lose) approaches to solving problems drive people apart and usually do not lead to the kinds of substantial or lasting improvements demanded by students and other stakeholders. They also reflect a dramatic void in creativity and innovative thinking.
Written for university leaders, from trustees to department chairs, We Can Do It! presents a proven path for improving teaching, individual courses, and academic programs. It describes how to create and deliver improved educational services while also improving access, affordability, and attainment. It will motivate administrators, staff, and faculty to learn a better way to improve academics, student engagement, graduation rates, and post-graduation student success, while also improving quality and reducing costs in non-zero-sum (win-win) ways.
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and public and private sector leaders will also find this book to be valuable and informative, as will departments of higher education, legislators, and governors overseeing public universities.
We Can Do It! describes how the Lean management system is a far more productive approach to improving the value proposition in academics. It also offers the unique opportunity to do good without doing harm.
204 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 26, 2012
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