Strategies for Higher Education Institutions

Resilience and Adaptability
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-36044-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Strategies for Higher Education Institutions: Resilience and Adaptability provides higher education leaders with a structured methodology for strategic decision-making under deep uncertainty.

The book constructs four plausible scenarios for higher education to 2035, organized around two critical uncertainties: coordination logic (state-led versus market-led) and human-AI centricity (human-centric versus AI-first). It introduces a five-mechanism typology that explains how AI and emerging technologies reshape institutional value propositions, operating models, and capability sets, moving analysis from individual tools to structural forces. The book then translates scenarios into strategic action through the 7C Strategy Wheel and 7C Strategy Selection Framework, connecting environmental diagnosis to strategic posture selection, initiative classification, and signpost monitoring. The primary readers are senior institutional leaders, including vice-chancellors, presidents, rectors, deans, governing board members, and strategy executives. Policymakers, ecosystem players, and researchers in strategic management and higher education will also find applicable frameworks.

The book functions as both an analysis and toolkit. Readers gain methods for stress-testing existing strategies against multiple futures, identifying robust actions that hold value across scenarios, building contingent strategies tied to specific conditions, and establishing signpost-based monitoring systems for strategic recalibration. The scenarios apply globally and are designed for application to specific national, regional, and institutional contexts.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yaghi, Bassil A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Berufe, Ausbildung, Karriereplanung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Purpose, Scope, and Approach, 2. A Conceptual Framework for Studying FoHEIs Scenarios, 3. AI/EmTech: Technologies and Mechanisms, 4. Drivers, Critical Uncertainties, and Scenario Architecture for 2035, 5. Scenario 1 - The Public Utility Model, 6. Scenario 2 - The Human Formation Model, 7. Scenario 3 - The Platform Marketplace Model, 8. Scenario 4 - The Prestige Boutique Model, 9. From Scenarios to Strategic Postures, 10. From Strategy to Action

Über Autor(innen)

Bassil A. Yaghi is an expert in strategy development, execution, and capacity building, with over 25 years of experience across academia, consulting, and strategic practice. He holds a PhD in Management from Cranfield School of Management, where he earned the Best Doctoral Dissertation award. Professionally, he served as Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for a subsidiary of a multibillion-dollar conglomerate and as a Partner at PwC's Strategy & Performance practice in the Middle East. Dr. Yaghi is the author of Business Strategy Formulation: The 7C Strategy Wheel (Routledge, 2026).