{"id":21728,"date":"2011-08-06T16:15:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T20:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=21728"},"modified":"2011-08-06T16:42:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T20:42:39","slug":"reengineering-it-in-higher-education-waters-mccartney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/08\/06\/reengineering-it-in-higher-education-waters-mccartney\/","title":{"rendered":"Reengineering IT in higher education [Waters &#038; McCartney]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2011\/08\/04\/reengineering-it-in-higher-education.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reengineering IT in higher education<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from campustechnology.com by John Waters<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Higher ed IT is going the way of the TV repairman, eventually becoming anachronistic maintainers of commodity systems&#8211;if university and college technology managers and chief information officers don&#8217;t reclaim their rightful place as innovators. So proclaimed William G. &#8220;Gerry&#8221; McCartney, CIO at Purdue University, who spoke to attendees at the annual Campus Technology 2011 conference last week in Boston. McCarthy said he wants to see nothing less than a new kind of higher ed hybrid, one that transforms colleges and universities into &#8220;producers as well as consumers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I have\u00a0 had the perspective for decades now that <strong>those organizations who utilize technologies the best will be the winners<\/strong> (sorry for the competitive way of framing this topic, but it&#8217;s true). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <strong>&#8220;Keeping the systems running&#8221; in the world of IT is important &#8212; but the <em>strategic use of IT<\/em> has arguably become more important as t<\/strong><strong>he Internet, changing landscapes, and budgetary pressures continue to disrupt higher education. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">In the 21st century, if you want a successful organization, you must have at least one visionary technologist &#8212; who understands your business &#8212; on your organization&#8217;s decision-making board; if not, good luck to such an organization in the future.<strong>\u00a0 If your organization minimizes and underestimates the power of technology to disrupt your business, things may not turn out too good for your organization in the future.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Also see:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.convergemag.com\/college-career\/21st-Century-Campus-Report-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Technology not a priority for most college administrators, report finds<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from ConvergeMag.com by Tanya Roscorla<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reengineering IT in higher education &#8212; from campustechnology.com by John Waters Excerpt: Higher ed IT is going the way of the TV repairman, eventually becoming anachronistic maintainers of commodity systems&#8211;if university and college technology managers and chief information officers don&#8217;t reclaim their rightful place as innovators. So proclaimed William G. &#8220;Gerry&#8221; McCartney, CIO at Purdue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,72,143,36,35,3,55,64,74,20],"tags":[627,606,641,586,585,566,597,47,607,579],"class_list":["post-21728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-daniel-s-christian","category-disruption","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-internet","category-it-in-he","category-leadership","category-strategy","tag-21st-century","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-disruption","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education","tag-internet","tag-it","tag-leadership","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21728"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21744,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728\/revisions\/21744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}