Institutional Management

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Institutional Management

Making Time for the Strategic Initiatives: Exploring Ways to Obtain a Better Balance

April 18, 2013 | A session at the Enterprise IT Leadership Conference 2013

An IT organization must adjust the services it offers and how it provides them so that it can have the ability to focus on initiatives that help the institution address its strategic objectives and…

Making the Case for the Information Strategy

September 6, 2011

Whether improving access to learning resources and research collections, developing management information systems to support decision making, or facilitating better communication, the informa…

Leading the Higher Education IT Organization: Six Building Blocks of Success

May 31, 2011

Stephen J. Laster ( slaster@hbs.edu ) is Chief Information Officer of Harvard Business School. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page. …

Facing Education’s Mounting Challenges with Collaboration and IT

April 12, 2011

This ECAR research bulletin offers higher education executives and their IT leaders reasons and recipes for joining together to decrease the lag time from technological to organizational innovat…

Strategic Outsourcing and Cloud Computing: Reality Is a Sober Adversary

June 16, 2009

This research bulletin examines outsourcing and cloud computing through the lens of strategic decision making for higher education. Strategic decisions have long-term impact, create institutional…

Centrally Coordinated/Locally Directed: An Innovative IT Management Model for Decentralized Institutions

April 1, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2008

Cal State East Bay has designed and implemented an innovative IT management and service delivery model in collaboration with the deans, vice presidents, the IT advisory committee, and the academic …

Building an Enterprise Architecture Program at Saint Louis University

March 13, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2007

Enterprise architecture (EA) focuses on aligning technology and process with strategic objectives. EA achieves this end by employing a rigorous methodology and governance model to control change an…

Planning and Creating an IT Infrastructure: One Branch Campus's Experience from the Middle East

January 18, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2007

This presentation will involve a summary of shared experiences by a first-time CIO deployed to a branch campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in Doha, Qatar. An overview of challenges, obstacl…

CNI Podcast: Dean Krafft on Reimagining IT at Cornell University

December 16, 2010

In response to the financial crisis, Cornell University began a broad review of a number of functional areas of the university, including information technology. Over a one-year period from the s…

Using an IT Governance Structure to Achieve Alignment at the University of Cincinnati

May 10, 2004

This case study explores how the University of Cincinnati has developed a governance structure that allows the IT organization to align priorities and function as a cohesive element across the in…