Business Strategy

Toms River Regional School Districts is currently using Genesis/SIS (Student Information System). 

Toms Rivers School Districts incorporated SIS (student information system) into their software. SIS tracks students grades, attendance, and records. It is design for teachers, students and even parents to communicate any information regarding the students academics and schooling. due to the Pandemic SIS has become a very important tool for the school districts and for those who have access to students information. 

Benefit of SIS

·        - Communication between Teachers and Students increase.

·       -  It reduces the amount of time on maintenance and the organization of students records.

·       -  Improve student enrollment data

The benefits of using this software is that it provides various channel of communications,  information storage, communication between parents and teachers/faculty, reporting and improve security features. 

Transferring to an Online Learning has not affected the School budgets. It's consider to be a part of their maintenance fee in which they receive to upgrade their systems.  Toms River Regional School Districts uses Google platform to access classrooms/meetings. The only fee they paid was to upgrade their license which allowed them to have features such as Google Meet/Data. 

There has not been any steep learning curve at Toms River Regional School Districts. The school district were familiar using Google platform. They continued to use Google due to having purchased Chromebooks and utilizing GoogleDoc within the classrooms/meetings. 

Toms River Regional School Districts were fortunate to have experience using Google before the pandemic started. It was a smooth transition going from an in-person classroom learning to online learning. 

Porter's 5 Forces: Higher Education

Porter's Five Forces Analysis challenges organizations by grouping them into Rivalry, Bargaining Power of Supplier Power, Bargaining Power of Buyers, Competitors, Threat of Substation, and Threat of Entry. School Districts competitiveness  satisfy the parents, students and teachers with their quality resources and the ability to surpass any schools in the competition. 

Bargaining Power of Supplier Power: If a Teachers or Faculty is able to "satisfy" the school Principal by showing an important resource that the staff can utilize to better improve the students education, there would be a space for the Teacher to negotiate with the Principal. The teacher is the competitor and the Principal has the option to satisfy the requirement. 

Bargaining Power of Buyer Power: The "buyers" ability to influence companies to reduce prices and improve their products/quality.  In a school settings, parents can form their opinions on whether the teachers meet their satisfactory requirement. If the parents are content with a teacher, the teacher competitiveness is much higher.  

                Teachers competitiveness can be measures by:

•  Their teaching ability
•   Language skills
• Ability to communicate with student's parents
• How well teachers can master different teaching models
• Personality Traits (are they good or bad teacher)
• How well the satisfy Principal and Parents requirement.

Threat of Entry: When competitors enter into a market that offering the same products. Teachers are the main competitors. They observe new staff who enter the schools that may possess new skills,  abilities or characteristics. Those who already hold a place in the school possess new abilities, they would be less threatened, and their competitiveness will be higher.

Threat of Substitute: When companies are forced to competed with organizations that are producing substitute services. In this case, teachers are less likely to be replace, this would result in the competitive to increase. 

Rivalry increases the tension of competition when an organization feels pressures or see an opportunity to improve their status. Teachers have to compete amongst each others and they cannot gain any advantages unless they excel in their abilities.