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Providing lead information on the Tertiary Education Strategy

This analysis is being used to inform the monitoring and evaluation of the Tertiary Education Strategy 2002/07.

Profiles are one of the few sources of lead information across the tertiary education system. Lead information considers planned and future activity and captures the performance drivers of an organisation or system. Lead information tends to be specific to the circumstances of the organisation.

In contrast, most of the information supplied by TEOs to government agencies is in the nature of lag information, with a focus on completed activity and results. This information tends to be more generic across the system.

Kaplan and Norton, in their work on balanced scorecards, recommend a mix of lead and lag indicators. “Outcome measures [lag indicators] without performance drivers [lead indicators] do not communicate how outcomes are to be achieved. They also do not provide an early indication about whether the strategy is being implemented successfully.”1

Focus on change expressed in organisational objectives

This report is an analysis of the organisational objectives2 in the 2005/07 and 2006/08 profiles submitted to the TEC by all of the public tertiary education institutions (TEIs)3 and a sample of 12 industry training organisations (ITOs).

The analysis looks at the match of organisational change expressed in profile objectives with the desired change expressed by government in the TES.

A riddle.

“Five frogs are sitting on a log;
four decide to jump off.
How many are left?
The answer is five.
Why?
Because there’s a difference between deciding and doing.”

Quoted on page 13 of the Tertiary Education Strategy 2002/07.

 

1 Robert S Kaplan and David P Norton, The Balanced Scorecard: translating strategy into action, Harvard Business School Press, 1996, p 150. (↑)

2 These are the objectives set out by the TEO in Part B of the profile. (↑)

3 Colleges of Education have not been included. The future of the two remaining colleges as autonomous entities is currently subject to public consultation. It is highly likely that both will be merged within neighbouring universities in 2007 or 2008. (↑)

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