Posts by Ulrich Hommel
Business school 5.0: Continuously rewired, boundary-spanning
Charting a business school trajectory is about developing and cultivating new organisational capabilities. Two such capabilities are the need to engage in continuous rewiring and becoming more boundary-spanning.
Read MoreManaging quality in education ecosystems: The emerging challenges
When thinking of an ecosystem as a collaborative model, there is a need for a common understanding of its strategy, vision, framework, values, culture, and each member’s contribution to align and achieve QA objectives in a seamless manner.
Read MoreThe business school’s journey from unbundling to networks to ecosystems
The traditional “business model” of business schools is being challenged in fundamental ways. This relates to what education is offered and how, what role knowledge generation will play in the future, to what extent business and societal impact will become the other side of the “research coin”, and, finally, what type of faculty and staff will be needed to successfully way-find into the future of the business school.
Read MoreAmbidexterity strengthens quality management during COVID-19
Assessing the results of a survey examining the impact of COVID-19 on quality management and assurance practices in Nordic and Baltic business schools. By Ulrich Hommel, Björn Kjellander and Claire Thouary.
Read MoreMore than just compliance
The vast majority of new hires nowadays learn the fundamentals of quality assurance “on the job”, by observing and imitating peers. The Quality Assurance Academy offers an alternative (but complementary) pathway.
Read MoreEFMD GN launches the Career Professionals Development Institute
EFMD Professional Development and Highered will launch a new training programme in autumn 2019, the Career Professionals Development Institute (CPDI).
Read MoreOpen positions: Leaders for unsettled times
As business schools transition into this still-fuzzy future, professional development of executives and staff will become an even bigger strategic priority and will demand different approaches.
Read MoreCreating the resilient business school
Ulrich Hommel and Ben Woods argue that business schools should look beyond conventional risk management systems to the strategic build-up of organisational resilience.
Read MoreMaintaining the gold standard
Ulrich Hommel and Michael Osbaldeston celebrate two decades of EQUIS and look forward to another 20 years of opportunities.
Read MoreRisk management ante portas
Ulrich Hommel and Anna Pastwa present the results of the EFMD Risk Management survey and argue that most business schools have just begun to look at this issue more seriously.
Read MoreMajor disruption ahead!
Ulrich Hommel and Christophe Lejeune discuss how technology could change the business model of business schools.
Read MoreGradualism prevails and perception outbids substance
Ulrich Hommel, Mollie Painter-Morland and Jocelyne Wang summarise the results of the Third EFMD/EABIS Global Deans Survey on ‘Sustainability and the Future of Management Education’.
Read MoreRisky business? Do you know what your risk exposures are?
Ulrich Hommel, Roger King, and Anna Pastwa open the debate on risk management in the business school community.
Read MoreDiversity is dead. Long live diversity!
An increasing number of pundits argue that the business school sector has entered a process of homogenisation – that diversity as we know it is dying a slow and inescapable death.
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