Aligning the supply chains of educational institutes with business strategy
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Date
2007
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PIQC Institute of Quality
Abstract
Schools that offer business subjects or arts in any part of the world either offer
quality education leading to high expense or would opt for medium quality
education and focusing more on getting economies of scales. Supply chain
optimization of educational institutions is highly dependant on number of
parameters which I refer to as drivers (e.g. no. of faculty, students,
empowerment of faculty etc.), the intensity level of which needs to be gauged
always. A common challenge is to not only highlighting those drivers and their
inter-dependencies across the business framework of the institution but to seek
the line of demarcation in the entire range (intensity) offered by that specific
driver. That ONLY would be possible if business strategy is clearly defined.
This Paper represents a model based on integration of various causal loop
diagrams on selecting the intensity levels of each driver so as to chalk out an
appropriate system model aligned and optimized. This model will direct or guide
you to fine tune a specific driver to create synchronization and help align your
supply chain network with business strategy. We find that by varying the intensity
levels of one of the drivers may misalign your educational institution’s supply
chain from business strategy and vice versa.
An SD model is made formulating a spectrum of education quality, one extreme
of which would be a cost effective education system and the other extreme is a
high quality education system. The model encompasses all parametric and
structural changes in the educational institution.
This system model is a true picture of how the institution’s supply chain is
aligned with the business strategy and is a useful guide for all managers and
administrators of those educational institutions, the supply chain of which is
portraying turmoil in contrary to the business strategy.
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Causal Loop Diagrams, System Models, Supply Chain Optimization, Alignment, System Dynamics
Citation
Pakistan’s 5th national Conference on Quality Assurance in Education