EDUCAUSE | Strategic Planning

E07 Podcast: Using Business Intelligence to Gain a Strategic Advantage in College Admissions

gbayne — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:44:17 -0500

This forty-eight minute podcast features a presentation from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. The session "Using Business Intelligence to Gain a Strategic Advantage in College Admissions,"is presented by Richard R. Burnette, III, Director of Student Information Management at Florida State University.

Florida State University used business intelligence to reengineer much of their admissions processes, including decision processing, back-office workflow, data auditing, and reporting. Leveraging data gives Florida State University a strategic advantage in managing head count, quality, and diversity. This session will discuss data uses, as well as organizational and process change. Powerpoint slides are also available for this session.

Tune In May 12 for a Free Web Seminar on IT and Enterprise Architecture

pkurkowski — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:20:28 -0500

In a recent survey, one-third of CIOs polled had a high-level architecture group. Of the remaining CIOs, one-third were planning to establish an architecture group in the next year or two. What role does architecture play in projects and strategic planning? Hear the perspective of an IT/enterprise architect as he talks about the practice and value of architecture. Learn about ITANA, a peer group where you can engage and learn more about architect as practiced in higher education.

In this free May 12 EDUCAUSE Live! web seminar, IT/Enterprise Architecture: What Is It, and What Value Does Leadership Find in Having an Architect at Hand?, presenter Jim Phelps, Senior IT Architect, University of Wisconsin–Madison, will share his thoughts about the practice and value of architecture.

Those unable to attend may wish to visit the archives after the event or browse related EDUCAUSE resources on Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Strategic Planning.

3 cities 3 conference titles: 3 snapshots of where we are

nordengren — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:17:53 -0500

This is regional conference number 2 for me, and my third Educause event in as many months. I January, it was my good fortune to meet many of you during the ELI annual conference in San Antonio.

In February, I attended the Southwest Regional Educause conference in Houston, and today, we're wrapping up the Midwest Regional Conference in Chicago.

What I observe is the conference titles did much to set up the differences in the attendees and the conference experience -- and gloabaly, these differences really define where we are with education technology today. To attend all three gives the broader and more strategic view of our work together.

The conference titles were:

Connecting and Reflecting: Preparing Learners for Life 2.0
Empowering Community Through Technology
New Directions in Higher Ed IT: Navigating the Course While Still Drawing the Map

For those of us in education and technology - or technology and education - we each see one or more of the pieces represented by the titles: we see the abstract concepts and pedagogical tools used to prepare learners blend with the ideas of community and ultimately we require the hardware and software to keep up or lead the trail and we live this idea of navigating while drawing the map.

Two things from the Chicago conference jump out at me: First, in her opening address, Susan Metros shared an observation about goals, processes and tools. My takeaway is that having an outcome in mind, such as collaboration, can lead to a process (shared presentation developoment), which then makes the tool (Google documents) eaiser to select. Often, as innovators, we choose the tool first, then seek an outcome.

The other observation from Chicago came during the lunch round table conversation. I shared a table with an interesting and engaging mix of leaders from our region and we discussed emerging technologies. Two thoughts were shared about emerging technologies from two diffrerent perspectives: the user and the implementer. For example, we discussed Twitter.

One table mate made the observation that he was surprised no one was "twittering" the conference. (There were multiple twitter-ers at ELI and a few in Houston.)

Someone else at the table shared they didn't know what Twitter was.

It struck me that this kind of conversation has been repeated over and over during the last 20 years -- just substitute any product name for "twitter". (IE: Lotus 123, Mosaic, Netscape, OnSale, Craig's list, Skype)

Another table mate offered that these have become "almost the technology du jour".

Exactly.

With scarce resources, and the changing employment demographic (see did you know on YouTube ) picking the right tools to deliver on the outcomes and processes requires more strategic thinking because if it is the technology du jour, you can't compete or succeed relying only on the best tactical execution.

These conferences are a great place to get out of the office, out from behind the desk, and get a larger view of where we are.

An Interview with Jack McCredie at CNI's 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting

gbayne — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:16:49 -0500

This podcast features a 13 minute interview with Jack McCredie, Associate Vice Chancellor, Emeritus, CIO, Emeritus, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He discusses collaboration between departments, campuses, and institutions and the issues and challenges facing system unification.

An important issue in planning, managing, and funding the broad range of information services on campuses is how to get departmental, campus, system-wide, and external organizations to work well together. Often they do not, and sometimes they actively compete.

The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), the Common Solutions Group, CNI, the UC Berkeley campus, and many other organizations have been working on developing collaborative models that provide better service and that save money.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: The New Imperative in IT

Carie417 — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:39:56 -0600

In this 45-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Michael Zastrocky in a session entitled The New Imperative for IT: Strategy, Management, and Institutional Change. He will share how strategy-aligned change can offer an approach to advancing the university mission, as well as frameworks and tools, to link technology investments and decisions to process changes that achieve enterprise and educational results.

EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: Attaining the Potential of E-Learning

Carie417 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:24:25 -0600

In this 30-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Shirley Waterhouse in a session entitled Attaining the Potential of E-Learning Through Strategic Planning: Step-By-Step Guidelines and Example Plans. Waterhouse will share how faculty and staff at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University are using an e-learning strategic planning process to ensure that e-learning is fully understood and endorsed by campus leaders.

New Constituent Groups Form: IT Architects and IT Strategic Planning

cluckett — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:05:59 -0600

EDUCAUSE announces two new constituent groups: IT Architects, led by James Phelps, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and IT Strategic Planning, led by Debra H. Allison, Miami University, and Andrew J. Clark, Syracuse University. Learn more about the 30-plus constituent groups, whose members discuss issues of common interest online throughout the year.

EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Program Plan Now Available

cluckett — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:30:40 -0600

EDUCAUSE has released its annual program plan for 2007. The plan describes five initiatives to address the grand challenges defined in 2006: renewing and rethinking campus IT services, determining what IT costs, improving student retention and graduation through analytics, managing cyberinfrastructure strategically, and IT workforce development. Read the full plan or skim the highlights.

May/June Issue of EDUCAUSE Review Now Online

ecoghlan — Wed, 10 May 2006 17:45:15 -0500

In the May/June EDUCAUSE Review: Charles M. Vest on open content and the emergence of the meta-university, Annie Stunden on administrative information systems implementations, part two of Clifford A. Lynch's interview by Brian Hawkins, and the 2006 EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey findings regarding the top-ten IT issues of strategic importance to higher education institutions.

E2005 Podcast: Listening to the Client: Connecting IT and the Academy

podcaster — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:37:49 -0600

This 53 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Listening to the Client: Connecting IT and the Academy.