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Comment on University Strategy and IT: A World View from the University of British Columbia by Dave

Dave — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:38:15 +0000

I am impressed with the nice article and blog, Keep up the good work!!!
Service Oriented Architecture

Comment on Breakout discussion of findings by strategic change management

strategic change management — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:07:13 +0000

strategic change management…

Great post. My approach to strategic change management says the quality of the first five percent determines what happens in the rest of the process. This same principle applies to many situations….

Comment on On-line Innovation in Higher Education by David Harrison

David Harrison — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:56:53 +0000

Institutional strategy and information strategy are/should be inter-twined; this is core business for HE. Focus in the 90’s was too much on MIS and the need to integrate systems - it failed because the architectures were not present or thought through, and the maturity level was too low, but most importantly you couldn’t get universal buy-in. Things have now changed and the value of information as a core asset of the “business” is hopefully now regarded as sufficient to elevate the debate.

Comment on Technology in support of Institutional Merger and Change by David Harrison

David Harrison — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:29:23 +0000

My question was more aimed at 3TU and Enterprise Architecture, rather than SOA per se. The interesting thing in Paul’s reply was that federation and technological transparency would not have been possible without EA. SOA is just one way (imho probably the most suited, but ERP vendors owuld disagree) of achieving the integration and user-facing service-delivery.

Comment on Breakout discussions 1 by David Harrison

David Harrison — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:52:38 +0000

Interesting point Chris. Size brings its own challenges, but shortage of resource brings another set. Just makes the importance of business alignment more important. If you demonstrate “worth” and “value” built upon “success at delivery” then you are half way there!

Comment on Breakout discussions 1 by Chris Graves

Chris Graves — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:07:37 +0000

If the non-Russell Group University is well organised and not dealing with too much internal politics it may well be able to afford “it” or something that to most consumers seems to be the same as “it”.

Comment on Welcome to the Conference by David Harrison

David Harrison — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:40:40 +0000

A really timely conference with the Debate on the Future of Higher Education having been published just last week.

http://www.dius.gov.uk/policy/HE-debate.html

Looking forward to hearing discussion on the submission that the JISC Chair made - On-line Innovation in Higher Education - and how this translates into strong strategic alignment between the institution and its IT function.