6B delivers end-to-end digital strategy and innovation support — from discovery and roadmap creation to service design, technology planning, and organisational readiness. Whether you’re improving interoperability, exploring AI, modernising systems, or rethinking digital delivery models, we help you make confident, evidence-based decisions that lead to sustainable impact across your institution.
Understanding Strategy and Innovation in Education
Digital transformation in education requires more than adopting new tools — it involves aligning technology with pedagogy, operational needs, policy requirements, and cultural change. Modern education environments rely on integrated platforms, data-driven insight, and accessible, personalised learning experiences. Strategic planning ensures that technology investments directly support learners, reduce staff workload, strengthen compliance, and improve institutional performance.
Innovation helps education providers explore emerging opportunities such as AI-assisted learning, automated assessment processes, analytics-driven early intervention, and streamlined SIS/LMS workflows. By focusing on real problems and measurable outcomes, institutions can replace fragmented systems with cohesive digital ecosystems that improve efficiency and learner engagement.
Our Strategy and Innovation Process
Our process begins with a discovery phase that examines your priorities, digital maturity, workflow challenges, and existing technology landscape. Through stakeholder workshops, service mapping, and analysis of teaching and operational needs, we generate a clear understanding of your current position.
We then develop a strategic vision and define priority initiatives, supported by a target architecture, integration requirements, and governance considerations. Our team assesses innovation opportunities — from automation to data insights and improved interoperability — and evaluates feasibility, risks, and expected value.
Once the strategy is shaped, we translate it into an actionable roadmap with defined milestones, resource needs, and investment requirements. Where appropriate, we support prototyping or proof-of-concept activity to validate ideas and mitigate risk. Throughout delivery, we provide strategic oversight to ensure the plan remains aligned with organisational goals and evolving sector priorities.
Benefits of Strategy and Innovation in Education
Effective digital strategy helps institutions reduce duplication, improve system integration, and ensure that technology investments are aligned with educational value. Clear direction supports smoother transformation, better governance, and more efficient use of resources across teaching, learning, and administration.
Educators benefit from simpler, more consistent tools that reduce workload and support high-quality teaching. Learners gain access to more personalised, accessible, and cohesive experiences across their digital journey. Edtech vendors and product teams benefit from clearer integration requirements, stronger market fit, and improved adoption across diverse education settings.
By connecting strategic ambition with practical delivery, strategy and innovation services ensure measurable improvements in performance, user experience, and long-term digital capability.
Why Choose 6B for Strategy and Innovation?
Experience working with schools, MATs, FE colleges, universities, public bodies, and edtech vendors.
Multidisciplinary team with expertise in strategy, technology, service design, and data.
Deep understanding of education standards such as LTI, OneRoster, QTI, Edu-API, and leading LMS/SIS platforms.
Vendor-neutral recommendations focused on educational value and long-term sustainability.
Strategies aligned to accessibility, data governance, safeguarding, and sector compliance standards.
Practical, action-oriented roadmaps that convert strategic vision into deliverable outcomes.
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Readiness checklist for Strategy and Innovation
- Define your organisation’s key educational and operational priorities.
- Identify current technology challenges or workflow inefficiencies.
- Document the core systems and datasets that support teaching and operations.
- Confirm constraints such as budget, procurement rules, timelines, or compliance requirements.
- Clarify decision-making processes and governance structures.
- Prioritise the outcomes that matter most to your organisation.
Speak To Our Strategy and Innovation Experts
Whether you're developing a new digital education services product or extending an existing solution with Strategy and Innovation, 6B brings the technical expertise, education insight, and experience needed to accelerate delivery.
