Total Cost of Ownership: A Strategic Tool for ERP Planning and Implementation
This bulletin identifies major cost factors that influence total cost of ownership of enterprise resource planning systems, along with tactics and management strategies for containing those costs in an...
View ArticlePreparing for the Revolution: Redux
This presentation will summarize the recent activities of the IT Forum, a National Academies task force studying the implications of rapidly evolving digital technology for the future of higher...
View ArticleThe Dynamics of Innovation
Utterback urges higher education leaders to tap the tremendous promise that innovations in technology and new learning media hold for making education more widely available, more reasonably proceed and...
View ArticleDisruption in Education
Clayton Christensen, Sally Aaron and William Clark, focus on the effects of disruptive technology that change competition in their field. Christensen's theory, developed in the corporate realm, is...
View ArticleThe Wi-Fi Revolution
Wireless technology has arrived with the power to totally change the game. It's a way to give the Internet wing without licenses, permission, or even fees. In a world where we've been conditioned to...
View ArticleInformation Security at the End of the Life Cycle: Computer and Media Disposal
Ensuring the confidentiality and security of information and licensed software on surplus computers is necessary. Protecting institutional information and the privacy of students, faculty, patients,...
View ArticleReady for Prime-Time Players: Beyond the Blog
As Weblogging matures, the supporting technology and techniques become more sophisticated, from online diaries to powerful social networking and Web publishing tools. Participants will plunge headlong...
View ArticleAccountability in Higher Education: Addressing the Innovator's Dilemma...
The Ohio Board of Regents sponsors a statewide team to experiment with disruptive technologies, a novel response to our multiple publics' call for accountability in higher education. Our high...
View ArticleDisruptive Technologies and the Evolution of the Law
In this thought-provoking overview, Richard Keck explores the idea that disruptive technologies not only upend existing markets but also upset the status quo that exists between important societal...
View ArticleE-Waste: What Is It and Where Do I Put It?
It has been projected that electronic waste (e-waste) is now increasing at more than three times the growth rate of general city waste. Electronic equipment has some components that are highly toxic...
View ArticleSustainable Computing
We are all confronted with the combined challenges of climate change and sustainable development. This presentation will outline the Cornell Facilities Services Sustainable Computing initiative, which...
View ArticleThe Myth about IT as a Utility
The authors argue that most utilities have become standardized commodities that are no longer evolving, campus IT is in a constant state of change. Therefore, it should not be relegated to commodity...
View ArticleMarket Formation for E-Books: Diffusion, Confusion or Delusion?
The issues addressed in this article are not about the E-Book market outcome, but the factors influencing the process of E-Book adoption. read more
View ArticlePodcast: Leading Ahead of the Curves
In this hour-long podcast we feature the closing keynote address from the EDUCAUSE 2008 Midwest Regional Conference. The speech was delivered by Brad Wheeler, Vice President for IT, CIO, and Professor...
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E07 Podcast: Top-Down or Bottom-Up? Designing and Redesigning a Digital...
This thirty-two minute podcast features a session from the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference. The session, "Top-Down or Bottom-Up? Designing and Redesigning a Digital Campus Somewhere in Between," is...
View ArticleE08 Podcast: The Facts of Life in the High-Tech Age
This hour-long podcast, recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference, features a speech by Moira Gunn, Host of Tech Nation and BioTech Nation on National Public Radio. The speech is entitled, "The...
View ArticleThe Technology Revolution in Higher Education: IT as a Catalyst of Change
This fifty-five minute podcast features a panel discussion from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania. The panel presentation, "The Technology Revolution in Higher...
View ArticleGetting Serious About Sustainable IT: Metrics, Tools, and Solutions
This ECAR This research bulletin provides a review of current tools and metrics for assessing IT sustainability and green initiatives. It evaluates current measurement tools and proposes conceptual...
View ArticleFraming Questions
In the presence of unpleasant change imposed externally, one’s first thoughts are on how to preserve the best of what is currently being done:How do we keep the IT staff from becoming overwhelmed?How...
View ArticleWhat If We Are Wrong?
This is a time for big change on our campuses. Realignment and repurposing of IT will comprise a significant part of that change. While the need may be clear, our new destination will remain obscure to...
View ArticleEvolving Academic Computing Offerings: A Successful Strategy
Rice University has struggled to find a method for updating infrastructure, embracing new technologies, and decommissioning old ones. Rice tried a new methodology in replacing and updating its OwlNet...
View ArticleMitigating Depreciation of High-Performance Computers with Opportunistic...
The Holland Computing Center (HCC) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln recently acquired a 21-teraflop supercomputer. Even as local usage grows to fill this large resource, a significant portion of...
View ArticleComputer Desktop “Evergreen” Program
Saint Mary’s University provides leased desktop computing resources to faculty, staff, and students through the Evergreen Program. The PC desktop computer is the University standard. This policy...
View ArticleA Practical Workshop in Diffusion of Innovations
Technological innovators start with an idea and aim at broad adoption. This presentation and hands-on workshop will outline a practical approach to the principles of the diffusion of innovation based...
View ArticleForum Futures 2002
Forum Futures 2002 is a collection of summaries of the 14 papers presented and discussed at the Forum's 2001 Aspen Symposium. Topics discussed include the impact of new media on learning strategies,...
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