Leadership

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Leadership

Creating a Reflective and Change-Oriented IT Culture Using a Bit O' Science

March 18, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

Please join us in an interactive discussion exploring how and why services are designed, deployed, and retired in IT. The speaker will share the journey of a newly formed Portfolio Management Offic…

Learning Organizations and You

October 2, 2012 | A session at the ELI Online Fall Focus Session 2012

The idea of the “learning organization” suggests that redesigning our workplaces to emphasize individual and group learning as the primary goals (as opposed to other priorities like control, …

Using Champions to Overcome Past Failures and Make Change Happen

March 16, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2010

Organization-wide improvement efforts fail 50–75% of the time, not because the leader failed to "walk the talk" but because the organization was simply incapable of the change. Feel-goo…

Collaborative Development: The Human Side of Project Management

March 17, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2008

UW–Madison successfully managed a large IT project using a new collaborative development methodology. The goal was to bring the product to life quickly with fewer bugs and greater input from both…

Strategies for Anticipating and Adapting to Institutional Change

January 16, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2008

When senior leadership changes, reorganization often follows. This presentation will describe the skills and strategies that were developed and used at both the personal and professional levels to …

IT Staff Development: An Opportunity to Think Like an External Review Team

January 16, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2008

Skidmore's CTO wanted to create a professional development experience for the IT organization that focused on "organizational effectiveness." In response, we created a simulation of …

IT Strategy and Leadership in Higher Education: Two Case Studies

March 20, 2007 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2007

This session consists of two case studies in leadership. Roberts Wesleyan College deploys technology through a defined technology plan, a strategy that has enabled an increase in technology while k…

ITIL in the Real World: NYU Leverages ITIL Best Practices to Enhance IT Organizational Processes

October 11, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference

Underdefined IT processes may compromise product development, service delivery, organizational agility, and efficiency. Without well-developed IT processes, service partners may find it difficult t…

Being a Leader Without Being in Charge

March 14, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2006

Team members can employ many leadership skills that can enhance a project's outcome without sabotaging the collaborative effort of the team or the role of the chair. In this session, we'l…

Building Organizational Capacity in the Management of a University Enterprise System

January 11, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2006

This presentation describes how New Jersey City University applied the principles of building organizational capacity to the management of its enterprise information system to create an environment…