The Stratonomics-K12^TM Engagement Model addresses six key strategy gaps playing a crucial role in achieving success and strategic alignment.

1. Strategy Alignment Gap: The strategy alignment gap examines the variance between the actual alignment of school leaders on strategy goals and their perception of their alignment. When perceived strategy alignment exceeds actual alignment, districts often perform poorly.
2. Strategy Formulation Gap: Stratonomics-K12^TM assesses whether your school district’s strategy is designed to appease influential stakeholders or excel on the most critical strategic areas that measurably provide the greatest lift in customer value. Your team learns to distinguish between strategies based on internal guesswork, executives’ desires and hunches, or some combination of the two and strategies that are science-driven and empirically measurable.
3. Strategy Implementation Gap: With Stratonomics-K12^TM , your school district experiences a science-driven approach to strategy implementation that eschews legacy methods rooted in more training, more meetings, more townhalls, more processes, more persuasion, and more motivation. Your team learns to implement strategy by linking your customers’ most important needs to employees’ daily work through a system of Positive Accountability^TM.
4. Strategy Monetization Gap: School districts thrive when they have high student retention and enrollment. Your district can effectively capitalize on strategy success by ensuring that gains in academic achievement translate to improved parent engagement, increased student enrollment, and robust student retention. No longer does your school district need to sell itself based on a litany of programs that only position you as a me-too district.
5. Strategy Embedding Gap: For most school districts, strategy is based on a collection of initiatives and objectives that change from year to year based on the whims and fancies of powerful stakeholders. The districts suffer from superficial and transient strategies, with more than 60% of their employees’ time spent on “value added waste.”
   Stratonomics-K12^TM provides strategic stability through a predictable, repeat-and-rinse implementation that can be honed and perfected over time.
6. Strategy Thinking Gap: Many senior and mid-level school district leaders lack a coherent and scientific framework for thinking about strategy. Consequently, they confuse strategic thinking with relying on guesswork, hunches, emotion, and past experiences. They use salience and intuitive leaps to formulate and implement strategy.

Addressing the six gaps allows school districts to implement the Science-Driven Strategy^TM framework that will drive your Stratonomics-K12^TM engagement. You will not only address each critical strategy gap, but also develop a sound strategy, successfully execute it, and embed it within your organizational culture for sustainable and impactful results.