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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Accountability
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Analytics for Enterprise Efficiency and Effectiveness
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July 26, 2012
Analytics: A 3 Day Sprint - July 26th, 2012 How is analytics used in the enterprise area? What kinds of data governance, policies and infrastructure need to be in place to ensure effective…
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Bringing Business Analytics to the College Campus:Using Fiscal Metrics to Steer Innovation in Postsecondary Educations
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September 19, 2011
This Center for American Progress and Delta Project report provides an overview of how business analytics could be used to improve the return on investment in higher education instruction. …
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Linking Analytics to Lifting out of Recession
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September 4, 2009
The scope of higher education analytics has broadened, dealing with K-20 and workforce issues and comparisons. Moreover, the stakes are higher, as well. Analytics will be critical to higher educ…
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Toward Sustainable Funding for Information Technology Infrastructure
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August 28, 2007
This research bulletin presents a framework for the effective, ongoing, sustainable funding of IT infrastructure in universities and colleges. The framework articulates the composition of IT infr…
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IT Portfolio Management and Accountability in Higher Education
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July 3, 2006
IT portfolio management at the University of Nebraska is being used to address accountability in the broadest sense: strategic decision-making, project analysis, and performance-based reporting. …
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Higher Education in the Age of Paradox: Fostering a Culture of Evidence
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May 16, 2006
Presentation at the May 2006 ECAR Academy in Dedham, Massachusetts. "NERCOMP Presents: ECAR Academy" was developed jointly by NERCOMP and ECAR to develop the next generation of current …
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IT Portfolio Management for Colleges and Universities: Balancing Risk/Return for Strategic Results
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February 1, 2005
This research bulletin explores how institutions optimize their portfolio of information technology investments. Drawing from recent research conducted at Northwestern University's Kellogg S…
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Information Technology Funding in Higher Education
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December 2, 2004
Abstract This ECAR research study is designed to illuminate a host of current financial management practices related to IT in higher education; to describe the state of the practice in this …
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Metrics and Money: The Process and Politics of Accountability
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January 1, 2003
In 1999, California State University negotiated a 10-year accountability agreement with the California legislature to justify $250 million in technology infrastructure upgrades. CSU engages in annu…
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Three-Legged-Chicken Breeding and Other Investment Strategies
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January 1, 1994
After a decade of spending millions to infuse higher education with information technology, we still have little to show for the investment. What we need now is an investment strategy. …

















