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 …

Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments

March 19, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2008

Enterprise architecture can translates vision into effective enterprise change. In a recent survey, 20 percent of CIOs were planning a new enterprise architecture group. This session will discuss t…

Seminar 01A - Aligning IT Leadership with Institutional Missions: The Reality of Being a CIO PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.

October 23, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

Senior IT leaders in higher education function at the intersection of two worlds. CIOs serve as the interface between the processes and practices of the technological world and the ambiguities and …

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…

E10 Session Podcast: CIOs in Wonderland: Transformational Leadership for Interesting Times

December 28, 2010

Facing unprecedented financial challenges, IT leaders at campuses of the California State University collaborated to identify and implement transformational initiatives that could save several mi…

The Myth about Techies

January 1, 2007

© 2007 Diana G. Oblinger and Brian L. Hawkins EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 1 (January/February 2007): 8–9 The Myth about Techies "IT Is for the Techies." Dia…

Just Don't Call It "Banner": NMSU's Integrated ERP Project

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

New Mexico State University began an aggressive ERP project in October 2003 with a conversion to Banner at the core. Simultaneously, NMSU also went live with workflow, imaging, portal and CMS, SCT …

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…

Business Process Modeling: Adding Value or Overhead?

May 8, 2006

New approaches to business process modeling can provide a map for IT services that are truly aligned to institutional goals. Institutions that adopt business process modeling techniques and inte…