This report is from the New Media Consortium. I make a point to review it and seldom do I think their predictions are a stretch.
May 012011
Nov 092010
My leadership team and I are discussing strategic goals and planning. I occasionally read listserv postings from James Dutcher who has provided a model for strategic planning in higher education. Nice job, James!
http://www.dutcher.net/JamesDutcher/#Strategic
Oct 112010
By Katrina A. Meyer at EDUCAUSE.edu…
Having been immersed lately in reading about disruptive technologies, I am in a quandary. Which — if any — technology in higher education is truly disruptive? How would we know? Is there a way to make any technology disruptive? And finally, how might disruptive technology affect higher education’s future?
via The Role of Disruptive Technology in the Future of Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE.
Jun 112010
Top-Ten IT Issues, 2010 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE: “Administered by the EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee, the electronic survey was conducted in December 2009.1 Survey participants — typically CIOs of EDUCAUSE member institutions — were asked to select the five most-important IT issues out of a selection of twenty-seven in each of four areas: (1) issues that are critical for strategic success; (2) issues that are expected to increase in significance; (3) issues that demand the greatest amount of the campus IT leader’s time; and (4) issues that require the largest expenditures of human and fiscal resources.”
Sep 242009
From TechRepublic.com…
Convince clients to take IT governance seriously | IT Leadership | TechRepublic.com: “Rick Freedman describes CIO Executive Board diagnostic materials that can help you educate clients and convince them about IT governance.”
Aug 312009
From CIO.com…
Five Resume Musts For Future CIOs – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership: “By Martha Heller
August 25, 2009 — CIO —
Compared to the route to CFO, the CIO career path is all over the place. CIOs come out of IT, operations, marketing and more recently, I am finding, out of finance. So if you were to offer advice on how to achieve the dream CIO career, what would you say?
I spoke to three CIOs who have not only traveled their own, unique career trajectories, they’re actively engaged in growing the CIOs of future. I asked them: If you were to write the r�sum�of tomorrow’s CIO, what would it include?”
Aug 242009
From CIO.com…
Data Center Definitions and Solutions – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership: “Data Center topics covering definition, objectives, systems and solutions.”
Nov 012008
By Michael Horn at MHProfessional.com…
Let’s revisit the topic of disruption in higher education, but from a different angle. In the past, I’ve written about community colleges and online universities targeting non-consumption, but there is a policy dimension to this as well.
via Another disruption in higher education: the teaching university | Clayton Christensen.