#Week 01:
What is the vision at your Organisation? Is it aligned with your strategy?Â
Risk management and contingency planning continue to have a higher significance in the context of business school accreditation. More and more, the ability to identify key risk exposure and PRO-ACTIVELY mitigate those risks has become part of ‘best practice’ in any business – including the business of business schools. Over the last two-three years, the QED team has seen several ‘shades’ of risk management within business schools – from those institutions with significant risk registers and well-embedded processes for risk management – to those who focus only on financial risk management (and revenues) to one school that stated (quite confidently) that there were no significant risks at all – because they had the ability to teach online and thus could deal with any eventuality! (We did ask what might happen if there was a power cut or drop in internet provision…?).
We’ve previously summarised the accreditation body requirements for risk management and these are:
QED has compiled a simple help-sheet that may be helpful for those schools approaching this exercise for the first time. It provides a simple overview of risk management and an example of a risk management template. The document is available to download.Â
We hope the resouce is helpful. If you have any comments or questions, just questions, let us know. We’d be delighted to hear from you.
ICAM 2023 was the first of five conferences that QED is attending before the end of June. As always, it was a great opportunity to catch up with friends, clients and colleagues – as well as hear some interesting speakers and updates on accreditation.Â
As always, there was lots to choose from – but in the interests of focusing, my top three takeaways were:1. Societal Impact was a recurring theme in several meetings and conversations. Several key principles within AACSB were re-emphasised throughout multiple sessions:Â
2. Dr Linda Hill gave an incredibly engaging, thought-provoking session on the ABCs of Leadership and Building an Agile Organisation. There was so much to choose from in this session, and I need to review my notes and the slides again to get more of the learning. One of the things that stood out to me were her tips for identifying key barriers to change – using six key questions
Identify Key Barriers & How to Address Them
3. In the Q&A session for Initial Accreditation, the presenters shared the key reasons why iSERs are sent back to Institutions for further review before being accepted (i.e. revise and resubmit decisions). These are:
If you were at ICAM, what were your key takeaways? We’d love to hear them.
For those who may have missed last week’s email, take note of the inclusion of an AoL module within Accredinator. For further details, or to book a demo, please email accredinator@QEDaccreditation.com.
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