{"id":5724,"date":"2010-05-28T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=5724"},"modified":"2010-05-29T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T14:40:53","slug":"positioning-it-as-a-strategic-partner-on-campus-from-academic-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/05\/28\/positioning-it-as-a-strategic-partner-on-campus-from-academic-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Positioning IT as a strategic partner on campus &#8212; from Academic Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.academicimpressions.com\/news.php?i=78&amp;q=5581j352605uK\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Positioning IT as a  strategic partner on campus<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from Academic Impressions, May 27, 2010<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At a time when institutions of higher education are  increasingly looking for technological solutions to strategic  challenges, recent <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/College-20-The-Incredible\/65442\/\" target=\"blank\">downgrades in the rank of the chief information officer<\/a> at institutions such as MIT and the University of Chicago has sparked  alarm in some quarters and a series of debates over whether the CIO may  start to disappear from university cabinets at other institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While there isn&#8217;t any conclusive data to suggest that the CIO  role is shrinking, the concerns over that possibility do serve to direct  increased attention to one of IT&#8217;s pressing challenges: that is, how to  position the CIO, and the broader IT organization, as a strategic  partner within the institution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>I can not stress this strongly enough:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>IT must be empowered with solid, strong seats at the top decision-making tables <\/strong>throughout higher ed.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">For those institutions who allow their CIO&#8217;s to have a seat at the table &#8212; and who put <strong>visionary, tech-savvy, experienced, competent leadership<\/strong> in such positions &#8212; they will thrive (assuming that the <em>culture <\/em>of their organizations can withstand the change that&#8217;s becoming necessary to play in this game).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">For those institutions who devalue the role of IT and the CIO&#8230;such organizations will continue down the road of cost cutting and their enrollments will continue to decline.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I&#8217;ll say it again,<strong> <\/strong>the status quo must go; and <strong>there are few who understand the need to change as much as someone within or (recently) from the tech side of the house. <\/strong>I say this because even those who are in tech struggle to keep up with the pace of technological change these days &#8212; so someone outside of the tech area will have an even tougher time <strong>keeping up, understanding the trends at hand\/play, understanding the threats and potential benefits of various technologies<\/strong> &#8212; and thus being able to make the appropriate <em>strategic decisions.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Technology will continue to have a highly-disruptive effect on the world of higher education &#8212; so one had better have some leadership on board the board<strong> that understands and can anticipate such disruption and make plans to respond to as many different scenarios of disruption as possible. <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>(Think  Blockbuster here, as to an example of an organization who failed to properly appreciate\/value technology and it&#8217;s disruptive impact enough.)<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positioning IT as a strategic partner on campus &#8212; from Academic Impressions, May 27, 2010 At a time when institutions of higher education are increasingly looking for technological solutions to strategic challenges, recent downgrades in the rank of the chief information officer at institutions such as MIT and the University of Chicago has sparked alarm [&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":[35,64,74],"tags":[585,47,607],"class_list":["post-5724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-changing-environment","category-it-in-he","category-leadership","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-it","tag-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724","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=5724"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5729,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions\/5729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}