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Innovation in Higher Education: How Leaders Build the Capacity to Adapt

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Higher education leaders are being asked to innovate faster than their institutions are built to move. This episode of Changing Higher Ed explores how presidents and boards can change that. Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Erika Liodice, Executive Director of the Alliance for Innovation and Transformation (AFIT), about how institutions can strengthen their innovation capacity through futures thinking, cross-sector insight, and structured team-based planning.

Topics Covered:

  • How futures thinking helps leaders anticipate demographic, workforce, and technology shifts
  • Why innovation efforts fail without planning discipline and shared vision
  • How AFIT institutions use cross-sector learning to improve student experience and operations
  • What VR, AI, and immersive environments reveal about modernizing curriculum and applied learning
  • How team-based learning accelerates decision-making and supports strategy execution
  • Why a long-horizon strategy must be paired with near-term planning cycles
  • How leaders can strengthen coordination across academic, student services, and operational units
Three Key Takeaways for Higher Education Leadership:
  1. Presidents and boards must anchor innovation in a future-oriented view of trends—environmental scanning, demographic forecasting, and technology signals should shape planning decisions.

  2. Innovation succeeds when the right teams plan together. Cross-functional alignment and shared ownership accelerate execution and prevent fragmented efforts.

  3. Institutions should treat innovation as an operational discipline tied to strategy, not a series of isolated pilots. Clear priorities, resource pathways, and coordinated leadership are essential.

Recommended For:

Presidents, trustees, senior leadership teams, and academic and operational administrators responsible for strengthening institutional resilience, planning capacity, and innovation strategy.

Read the transcript: https://changinghighered.com/innovation-in-higher-education-adapt-foresight-planning-afit/

#HigherEducation #InnovationInHigherEd #HigherEducationPodcast

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Higher education leaders are being asked to innovate faster than their institutions are built to move. This episode of Changing Higher Ed explores how presidents and boards can change that. Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Erika Liodice, Executive Director of the Alliance for Innovation and Transformation (AFIT), about how institutions can strengthen their innovation capacity through futures thinking, cross-sector insight, and structured team-based planning.

Topics Covered:

  • How futures thinking helps leaders anticipate demographic, workforce, and technology shifts
  • Why innovation efforts fail without planning discipline and shared vision
  • How AFIT institutions use cross-sector learning to improve student experience and operations
  • What VR, AI, and immersive environments reveal about modernizing curriculum and applied learning
  • How team-based learning accelerates decision-making and supports strategy execution
  • Why a long-horizon strategy must be paired with near-term planning cycles
  • How leaders can strengthen coordination across academic, student services, and operational units
Three Key Takeaways for Higher Education Leadership:
  1. Presidents and boards must anchor innovation in a future-oriented view of trends—environmental scanning, demographic forecasting, and technology signals should shape planning decisions.

  2. Innovation succeeds when the right teams plan together. Cross-functional alignment and shared ownership accelerate execution and prevent fragmented efforts.

  3. Institutions should treat innovation as an operational discipline tied to strategy, not a series of isolated pilots. Clear priorities, resource pathways, and coordinated leadership are essential.

Recommended For:

Presidents, trustees, senior leadership teams, and academic and operational administrators responsible for strengthening institutional resilience, planning capacity, and innovation strategy.

Read the transcript: https://changinghighered.com/innovation-in-higher-education-adapt-foresight-planning-afit/

#HigherEducation #InnovationInHigherEd #HigherEducationPodcast

  continue reading

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