The Stratonomics-K12 TM Advantage goes beyond superficial and temporary increases in academic achievement or enrollment. The process engages top school executives and their teams to bring about a shift in mindset, critical thinking, and strategic reasoning. Stratonomics-K12 changes your leadership team in many ways…
Being internally focused and lacking a
customer lens
Being driven by intuitive leaps, salience,
qualitative guesswork, and powerful
stakeholders’ personal preferences
Making no meaningful comparisons
Experiencing analysis paralysis
Lacking a link between strategy and critical outcomes
Having no meaningful way to focus and
sequence the work that teachers, staff,
principals, and leaders do
Cherry-picking strategic initiatives from the personal preferences of powerful
stakeholders
Having no blueprint for alignment
Relying on confusing mission, vision, and
value statements as strategy
Using an undefined process driven by
advisors and powerful stakeholders
Being laser focused on customer value
Fostering critical reasoning and problem
solving using quantitative research that rank orders and prioritizes strategic levers
Using the Stratonomics-K12TM benchmark database of more than 20,000 parents/students and 6,000 employees across more than 2,000 school districts
Having clear guidance based on statistically-derived lift potential
Seeing clear linkages between strategy and multi-dimensional outcomes
Linking strategic initiatives meaningfully to customer-value maximization
Basing alignment on a researched model of strategy formulation and implementation
Understanding that mission, vision, and value statements provide strategy boundaries, not strategy itself
Implementing a structured, six-phase process led by statistical science, content-driven workshops, assessments, and facilitation
Many school districts employ strategy consultants who rely on gut feeling, intuition, soft skills, and coaching to guide their clients. The consultants use frameworks like stakeholder listening, SWOT, continuous training, process management, periodic review, and metrics measurement to develop and implement strategy. The approaches all lack a foundation in rigorous science and empirical validation.
Stratonomics-K12 differentiates itself by incorporating science and rigor into every facet of the strategy formulation process. Stratonomics-K12’s work and recommendations are grounded in evidence-based research, including insights from a proprietary benchmark database, statistical models, and science-driven strategy processes. Every engagement leverages Stratonomics-K12 research, published in scholarly books and the most prestigious academic and practitioner journals from the Financial Times Top 50 Journal list. Notable publications have appeared in:
Time and again, school districts implement strategies and programs sold by vendors promising industry-leading results. Time and again, the products fail to deliver. The vendors blame their customers, saying the districts suffer from a lack of morale, overwhelmed frontline employees, initiative overload, and scarce resources.
In reality, the failure is due to legacy strategy approaches that narrowly focus on initiatives, trainings, and programs designed to appease powerful voices. By scientifically deriving a school district’s Customer Value EquationTM and aligning strategy and resources, Stratonomics-K12 guarantees success. The proven model reflects peer reviewed research based on results from school districts across the United States and including public, charter, and private institutions.