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Good Leadership. Good Management. There's a Difference.
No campus endeavor better dramatizes higher education’s need for good leaders and good managers than an ERP implementation project. These mission-critical campus projects can take years and consume multiple millions of dollars and resources. This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette
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The Psychology of Executive Dashboards
"Executive dashboards" are popping up everywhere. Johna Till Johnson, writing in Networkworld.com, calls them "technology's next wave." And with good reason. A quick Google search produces dozens of websites with solutions that claim to quickly synthesize and present business data to busy executives. This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette
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A Fine Tool to Engage and Align Campus Stakeholders
How can diverse campus stakeholders be successfully aligned in a common direction or engaged in a project? For example, suppose you want to create new cross-discipline academic programs that may reduce support for some traditional academic programs? Or how about marshalling support while investing millions of dollars and multiple years of effort in new enterprise resource planning (ERP) software? New tools and group processes are needed. This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette
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Change on Campus...Ready or Not
Mark Twain once said, “It’s not the progress I mind, it’s the change I don’t like.” This sentiment rings true today on campuses across the country. Innovators in higher education regularly face the challenge of instigating progress on campus while dealing with the natural resistance to change that we humans have. This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette
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How Committees Should Operate
Margaret Mead once said, "A small group of committed people can make a difference and change the world." That doesn't seem to be the case for many university committees. Some committees work well. Unfortunately, many don't. Poorly run committees waste university time and resources, and sometimes lead to disastrous results. How do effective committees operate? Are there diagnostic tools and remedies for those that don't? This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette |
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