Effective Leadership in Higher Education Institutions through Information and Communication Technology

Harnessing ICT for Effective Leadership in Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

Leadership when effective can make the organization sustainable and help them move in theright direction making the organization move towards knowledge economy and economic power as well,even in diverse economic conditions. The performance of any organization can be improved byminimizing the variance observed at different levels, extending from strategic to operational, helping amanager to develop effective leadership traits using the benefits of information and communicationtechnology (ICT). The competency, knowledge, experience and personal attributes can be developed in agiven time frame through ICT developing the effective leadership helping achieve the goals of anyorganization by focusing on creating an environment that spans ICT devices. The higher educationinstitution‘s (HEI) expanding technology horizons and new trends can help define the educationaloperating model to reach performance for customers and enable employee anywhere as a team and usedigital technologies to deliver and continuously improve the business services anywhere for creating anautomation journey across the organization where optimization and automation can create an effectiveleader.