Understanding Costs and Value
Examine costs, value, and cost drivers to maximize value and increase efficiency.
Enterprise IT is expensive, and it’s not always easy to articulate the value these services bring to the institutional mission and goals. Enterprise IT leaders should work to maximize value and increase efficiency, while also communicating with campus stakeholders in a way that helps them understand the value of enterprise IT as it relates to and furthers goals.
Learn About This Key Topic
- Use institutional digital transformation (Dx) initiatives to demonstrate the value of enterprise IT
- Use system migrations as an opportunity to communicate the value of enterprise IT
- Adapt your budget strategy for the cloud
- Communicate the business value of enterprise IT
Understanding Costs and Value Toolkit
| Aligning IT Funding Models to the Pace of Technology Change: Enabling Financial Flexibility for Core, Flexible, and Transformative Services |
ECAR working group paper offering guidance and suggestions for making smart, informed decisions about IT investments |
| Maximizing Value in a Time of Change |
Report from the EDUCAUSE/NACUBO 2014 Administrative IT Summit with recommendations for ways that institutions can maximize the value of administrative IT |
| Resources for Presidents and Senior Executives: Administrative Systems and Services |
Executive briefs designed to help institutional leaders optimize the impact of IT in higher education |
| Demonstrating Value Through IT Service Management in Higher Education |
Working group paper describing how IT service management can be used to align operations with institutional strategies and goals |
For more enterprise IT resources, visit the EDUCAUSE Library.