K-12 Education Industry Reference Architecture
Capability maps, value streams, and strategy maps for K-12 education.
- Business leadership requires a unified and validated view of K-12 education business capabilities that helps CIOs and K-12 education leadership accelerate the strategy design process and that aligns initiatives, investments, and strategy.
- The district and IT often focus on a project, ignoring the holistic impact and value of an overarching value stream and business capability view.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Using an industry-specific reference architecture is central, and has many benefits, to organizational priorities. It’s critical to understanding, modeling, and communicating the operating environment and the direction of the institution, but more significantly, to enabling measurable top-line institutional outcomes and the unlocking of direct value.
Impact and Result
- Demonstrate the value of IT’s role in supporting your institution’s capabilities while highlighting the importance of proper alignment between academic, administrative, and IT strategies.
- Apply business architecture techniques such as strategy maps, value streams, and capability maps to design usable and accurate blueprints of your institution’s operations.
- Assess your initiatives and priorities to determine if you are investing in the right capabilities. Conduct capability assessments to identify opportunities and to prioritize projects.
Upcoming
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Wednesday, February 05, 2025
11:00 AM EST
Map Your K-12 Reference Architecture to Define Your Strategy
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Upcoming
Webinar
Wednesday, February 05, 2025
11:00 AM EST
Map Your K-12 Reference Architecture to Define Your Strategy
Register Now
Mark
Maby
Research Director
Mark
Roman
Managing Partner II
About Info-Tech
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We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Get the help you need in this 4-phase advisory process. You'll receive 9 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation 1: Build your organization’s capability map
- Call 1: Scope requirements, objectives, and your specific challenges.
Guided Implementation 2: Use organizational capabilities to define your strategic focus
- Call 1: Assess current maturity.
- Call 2: Identify target-state capabilities.
- Call 3: Identify the relationship between current initiatives and capabilities.
- Call 4: Create initiative profiles.
Guided Implementation 3: Assess key capabilities for planning priorities
- Call 1: Identify strategy risks.
- Call 2: Identify required budget.
Guided Implementation 4: Adopt capability-based strategy planning
- Call 1: Identify and prioritize improvements.
- Call 2: Summarize results and plan next steps.
Contributors
- Bruce Gazely, Project Manager - ERP/SIS Reference Architecture Project, ECNO
- Dana Constantinescu, Business Systems Analyst, Peel District School Board