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The strategy diamond
The strategy diamond by Don Hambrick and Jim Fredrickson
Eight Models of Business Models
Eight Models of Business Models, & Why They’re Important
a blog posting by Tim Kastelle
Are most adaptations of the Business Model Canvas broken?
“After several years “on the market” there are now multiple Business Model Canvas adaptations floating around. People sometimes ask me about them. This blogpost provides an answer by explaining the Canvas through the analogy of a Theater (watch the video). It shows why we got it right and why most adaptations are broken.” Alexander Osterwalder, January 2013
Schools national funding formula
Documentation
The Department for Education has published a suite of documents about stage 2 of the national funding formula.
- An executive summary outlines the proposals and the effect on schools, and the consultation document explains these in detail.
- The effect on each school and area is shown in full in the impact tables.
- There are technical notes to accompany these tables, including an Area Cost Adjustment annex which shows the ACA weightings.
- Also there are illustrative allocations for new and growing schools.
- The equalities impact assessment considers how the proposals relate to the 8 protected characteristics identified by the Equality Act 2010.
How is the national curriculum designed to enable tracking in primary schools?
Every school needs an effective assessment system in order to evidence their assessment of pupils’ progress, to keep parents informed, to enable governors to make judgements about the school’s effectiveness, and to inform Ofsted inspections. The Department for Education suggests a set of core principles to underpin effective assessment systems within schools. The first of these calls for “meaningful tracking of pupils towards end of key stage expectations in the [national] curriculum ….”. How is the national curriculum designed to enable tracking in this way?
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Steve Blank on the startup lifecycle
Green and red lights for a business model
Helpful hints by Don Debelac in his article Developing a Great Business Model published in 2007 in Entrepreneur.
Schools defined to be ‘coasting’
A technical guide for primary schools published in December 2016 defines the “coasting” progress threshold as below -2.5 in reading, -2.5 in mathematics or -3.5 in writing. Schools have to be below at least one of these thresholds and have fewer than 85% of children making the expected progress to meet the definition. To be defined as “coasting”, they have to meet the definition for three consecutive years. The Regional Schools Commissioner (RSC) applies this criterion to school data once the key stage 2 results have been published and then takes follow-up action with schools identified as coasting.