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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Cost Analysis or Assessment
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Assessing Your Fiscal Bandwidth: Current Practices for Measuring IT Costs in Higher Education
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May 14, 2013
Accurately and consistently measuring the cost of IT in higher education is an essential part of strategic IT management, yet according to IT leaders, cost data have proven elusive. What if a…
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Optimizing Computing Infrastructure: Weighing Factors and Identifying Solutions
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March 1, 2013
So, you've identified the problem and maybe even a set of possible solutions for your IT project. How do you decide which solution will best meet the needs of your campus or IT organization?…
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Using BI to Identify Revenue and Resource Reallocation
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March 18, 2013
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A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
Like most institutions of higher education, Miami University is facing increasing financial pressures and demands. Miami University has decided to develop a new budget model that will result in the…
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Delivering the Dual Mission of University IT
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July 28, 2011
Presentation at the 2011 ECAR Symposium, July 28, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois. University IT departments have evolved organically, but the time has come to purposefully organize to support the du…
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NSF-Sponsored Workshop Report: Sustainable Funding and Business Models for Academic Cyberinfrastructure Facilities
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November 18, 2010
This report summarizes the observations and recommendations from the National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop of the same title. Workshop papers submitted discuss the challenges faced in …
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Formalizing Enterprise IT Project Management
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March 9, 2010
This ECAR research bulletin discusses how formal enterprise IT project management can be applied to IT projects when the scope, cost, and external controls put them into a different league from …
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A Costing Model for Project-Based Information and Communication Technology Systems
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July 30, 2009
By Brian Stewart and Dave Hrenewich A lack of accurate information on costs for information and communications technologies hampers effective decision making on ICT proposals. Havin…
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CFOs Talk about Finances: Glimmers of Hope
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July 30, 2009
© 2009 Laurie G. Antolovic, Albert G. Horvath, and Margaret F. Plympton EDUCAUSE Review , vol. 44, no. 4 (July/August 2009): 36–43 Laurie G. Antolovic is Deputy CIO and IT Chief Fi…
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Managing in a New Reality
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July 30, 2009
© 2009 Philip J. Goldstein EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 44, no.4 (July/August 2009): 10–19 Philip J. Goldstein ( philgoldstein@goldsteinassoc.com ), an EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Rese…
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Defending the IT Budget
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June 2, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2009
IT is just a budgetary black hole, IT only does what it wants to do, and Times are tough—do more with less! Do these comments sound familiar? If so, come hear how Georgia State's…


















