An Investigation on Strategic Management Success Factors in an Educational Complex

AbstractOne of the topics that has received an increasing attention in the last two decades is the need and importance of educational transformations and changes. Identifying and recognizing the starting point of this transformation and strategic management success factors attracted a great deal of attention. This study aims to investigate strategic management success factors in an educational complex. It is considered that strategic management should be proposed in productive and commercial institutes and enterprises, while the schools as institutes that human beings are their main inputs and outputs are the best options for the implementation of strategic management. The added values of schools are knowledge, skill, and awareness which require scientific purposeful planning to change into a high-performing school. Strategic management in schools influences on their planning, predicting changes, and managing. They also can take advantages of the existing threats, turn them into opportunities, and use all school resources to utilize the opportunities through recognizing environmental opportunities. Putting everyone in properly determined position encourages staff to perform their jobs and duties properly and makes them motivated