Leadership

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Leadership

Finding a Better and More Productive Project Management System

January 28, 2013

Key Takeaways Realizing the need for a better tool to collaboratively manage time, tasks, and goals on a key project, faculty members at Western Oregon University decided to inve…

Interview and Interactive Q&A Session with General Session Speaker Elizabeth Coleman, Bennington College

March 13, 2013

Join us for an exclusive interview and take advantage of this unique opportunity to engage in dialogue with the general session speaker who will comment on and discuss her presentation from the f…

Introduce Facilitation in Your Next Testing Initiative

January 28, 2013

Key Takeaways A facilitated testing program uses a three-stage approach that motivates testers to actively engage with a system by first introducing the expected changes and th…

Building Blocks for College Completion: Blended Learning

December 11, 2012

Ten projects funded by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) in the initiative’s first round of investment in 2011, known as Wave I, sought to scale the adoption of blended learning model…

Headless Leadership: Unconferences and Other Spontaneous Disruptions in Your Workplace

March 12, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

What happens when a small group of progressive thinkers picks a broad theme (mobile, the cloud) and decides to assemble an unknown group of fellow employees to talk about an ill-defined number of u…

Changing the Culture of an IT Organization, Whirlwind Style

March 12, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

Yale's IT organization is in transformation mode. The journey, over the past 18 months has covered everything: a major reorganization; a top to bottom and side-to-side implementation of ITIL…

Cultivating a Culture of Creativity and Innovation: Learning from Jazz Improvisation - Sponsored by Acquia

March 12, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

Today's world involves change at an unprecedented pace. Managing creativity and innovation is becoming the most important responsibility for leaders in this new century. Leaders must build thi…

Improvisation and Innovation: Rhetoric and Reality - Sponsored by Tuition Management Systems

March 13, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

We are unlikely to achieve the kind of institutional agility we desire—openness to new ideas, responsiveness to a changing world—if we persist in addressing questions of innovation, improvisati…

Lessons Learned: The Least Favorite Part of Projects

March 19, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

Continuous improvement and data-driven decision making are important parts of IT in higher education. Lessons learned after a project can play a key role in gathering that data and finding ways t…

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…