Higher education strategy in digital transformation

Mohamed Ashmel Mohamed Hashim*, Issam Tlemsani, Robin Matthews

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Abstract

Digital transformation in the global higher education industry determines the future roadmap to a sustainable education management strategy. This research paper aims to develop a qualitative model that advocates how digital transformation as a propelling force could be used to build competitive advantages for universities. Building competitive advantage is a relative, evolving, and important concept in strategy formulation. In recent years, specifically in the education industry, the notion of building competitive advantage is challenged by global phenomena such as digital transformation globalization, information exchange, digitization and social media in most of the global industries. These phenomena have collectively made the process of building competitive advantage rapidly changing, short-term and contextual. These findings aid the evolution of strategic management practices in universities by providing empirical insights in determining the impactful changes and their connection to evolutionary learning. It also stresses the importance of using the developed model as a decision support system to generate, regulate and retain student experience and expectations. This research paper provides first-hand insight into the impactful changes affecting universities’ vision and how they can turn these changes to their advantages and set a road map to design-develop models to integrate and regulate these essential changes in their strategies using evolution learning mechanism and digital transformation strategy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3171-3195
Number of pages25
JournalEducation and Information Technologies
Volume27
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Sept 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Competitive advantage
  • Digital transformation
  • Evolutionary learning
  • Higher education
  • Impactful changes
  • Virtual learning

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