The recent Higher Education Leadership Summit “Leading the Agile University” saw the launch of a new set of free resources for leaders in UK Higher Education. The resource, entitled JISC Portfolio for Senior Managers: employ technology to support your business goals, covers five areas:

.    Strategies for agile institutions: scenario planning

.         Relationship management and business intelligence

.         Research rigour, accessibility and impact

.         Alternative business models for higher education

.         Enhancing the student and staff experience

The publication is available for download here both as a simple pdf and as an interactive version with video. Alternatively, you can view a summary page with invitations to ‘take three steps’ plus video clips on the JISC website.

Ewart Woodridge CBE, Chief Executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher
Education, welcomed the publication, commenting that the agile university  required “a strategic and entrepreneurial approach to the use of technology”.

As well as providing food for thought for leaders, this resource provides a clear summary of some of the key tools available from JISC to support university managers, and brings home the importance to the ‘agile university’ of integrating IT strategy across the organisation.