Measured Approaches to New Technologies
Measured Approaches to New Technologies
Higher education increasingly faces an environment that demands thoughtful technology investments and implementations. Amid tight budgets, staffing challenges, and ballooning workloads, purchasing decisions are increasingly guided by measuring returns on investment and value.
Among a variety of strategies to maximize value, institutions can deliberately solicit user feedback for smart technology procurement, use benchmarking tools for informed decisions on IT spending, and collaborate across the higher education sector for streamlined assessment of solution providers.
Understand Stakeholders to Realize Value
Considering varying stakeholder needs and how solutions fit into unique higher education environments is crucial to selecting and implementing the most appropriate tools. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, technology leaders prioritized feedback from power users when transitioning to a new IT service management solution.
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- Gartner, Manage Technology Decision Risk, Complexity and Value Realization, By Auria Asadsangabi, Lucas Kobat, Andrew Gianni, 11 February 2026.
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