Planning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Planning

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 …

Who's Leaving Now? Planning for Succession

August 9, 2005

Succession planning should not begin the day someone leaves your IT organization. Effective succession planning is a process that happens every day, throughout your organization, that leaves no tal…

Surveying the Landscape Cont'd: Tough Times and Hard Decisions: Thinking Strategically about IT

January 1, 2003

Information Technology strategy needs to be derived from institutional strategy and focused on what we do with it, not just what it is – focus on the value added, not just the sunk cost. In part…

Making Tough Decisions, or Managing Political Awkwardness

January 1, 2002

Decision-making in higher education is never easy. IT tackles controversial issues such as bandwidth, course management systems, technology fees and network security scans. Advisory groups are tout…

Management Tips from a Four-Time CIO

January 1, 2001

This session will feature management models and lessons learned that help create successful partnerships with executive officers and other senior managers. We will discuss items important for CIO i…

University Information Processes: Architects for the Virtual University

January 1, 1998

The University of Michigan's Information Technology Division established a work group dedicated to process analysis, innovation, redesign, and reengineering throughout the institution. This p…

Critical Process Redesign (CPR) to Achieve an IT Learning Organization

January 1, 1996

The University of Memphis created a vice presidential level chief information officer (CIO) position effective July 1, 1995, to serve as the institutional policy officer for information technology …

Restructuring the Information Technology Organization To Improve User Services and Return on Investment: Do Compromises Work?

January 1, 1995

In the last several years, Central Michigan University reached a level of technological growth, excitement, and frustration that forced significant changes in both the information technology infras…

Strategic Information Resources: A New Organization

January 1, 1994

In February 1994, Gettyburg College formed a new division: Strategic Information Resources. The new Vice President was charged with merging the existing library and computing departments into a new…

Partnering Within the Institution and Beyond

January 1, 1994

July 1994 marked the beginning of an aggressive campaign at Virginia Tech to replace approximately 30 core administrative applications - moving from a mainframe to a server-based environment in a 3…