Our original blog articles cover a wide range of topics, from higher education news to information technology or strategy insights.
Benchmarking for Aligning Non-academic Staffing with Institutional Needs
Institutional efficiency in higher education has never been more important than in our present and often turbulent environment. Indeed, the news is replete with stories… [Read More]
Partnership, Merger, and Acquisition Are Not Dirty Words
This past month, another New England college announced it was closing at the end of the academic year. The announcement came as a great surprise… [Read More]
Assessing Your Higher Ed Institution’s Strategic Positioning
The challenges facing higher education institutions are monumental. It is clear that academic business models are struggling to keep up with the enrollment declines and… [Read More]
Where Are All the Campus Closures?
With the passage of the CARES Act ($40 Billion of aid to colleges and universities) and the apparent reprieve in cuts from state governments (again… [Read More]
An Impossible Choice-Analyzing the ERP Landscape
Updating legacy ERP systems can often become a game of putting the train tracks in front of the train as it travels, trying to maintain… [Read More]
Looking Ahead of COVID-19: Charting a Course Through the Perfect Storm
Like many technology leaders, our past eight months have been consumed with a combination of “COVID crisis” institutional meetings followed by Information Technology (IT) meetings… [Read More]
Prioritizing the Right IT in Higher Ed with a Reduced Budget
With over 500 members, several pre-pandemic in-person events, and eight virtual roundtable discussions under our belt, the Higher Ed Technology Professionals Meetup group made significant… [Read More]
Organizing for Effective Decision Making in Higher Ed
The COVID pandemic has created an existential challenge to higher education in the United States. As we have argued in earlier blogs, however, the cracks… [Read More]
Scenario Planning Revisited–Can You Predict the Future Precisely?
In a blog last spring, I argued that universities needed to respond to the uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic by utilizing scenario planning to identify… [Read More]
Benchmarking for Aligning Non-academic Staffing with Institutional Needs
Institutional efficiency in higher education has never been more important than in our present and often turbulent environment. Indeed, the news is replete with stories… [Read More]
Partnership, Merger, and Acquisition Are Not Dirty Words
This past month, another New England college announced it was closing at the end of the academic year. The announcement came as a great surprise… [Read More]
Assessing Your Higher Ed Institution’s Strategic Positioning
The challenges facing higher education institutions are monumental. It is clear that academic business models are struggling to keep up with the enrollment declines and… [Read More]
Where Are All the Campus Closures?
With the passage of the CARES Act ($40 Billion of aid to colleges and universities) and the apparent reprieve in cuts from state governments (again… [Read More]
An Impossible Choice-Analyzing the ERP Landscape
Updating legacy ERP systems can often become a game of putting the train tracks in front of the train as it travels, trying to maintain… [Read More]
Looking Ahead of COVID-19: Charting a Course Through the Perfect Storm
Like many technology leaders, our past eight months have been consumed with a combination of “COVID crisis” institutional meetings followed by Information Technology (IT) meetings… [Read More]
Prioritizing the Right IT in Higher Ed with a Reduced Budget
With over 500 members, several pre-pandemic in-person events, and eight virtual roundtable discussions under our belt, the Higher Ed Technology Professionals Meetup group made significant… [Read More]
Organizing for Effective Decision Making in Higher Ed
The COVID pandemic has created an existential challenge to higher education in the United States. As we have argued in earlier blogs, however, the cracks… [Read More]
Scenario Planning Revisited–Can You Predict the Future Precisely?
In a blog last spring, I argued that universities needed to respond to the uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic by utilizing scenario planning to identify… [Read More]