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Eaton, Robert B.; Schuler, Rodney C. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1994
A key issue in redesigning college and university business processes is whether new processes should be enabled by information systems that focus on them or share highly integrated data and common methods with older processes. An approach used at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) that entailed reorganization, reorientation, and retooling is…
Descriptors: College Administration, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Management
Integrating Computing Resources: A Shared Distributed Architecture for Academics and Administrators.
Beltrametti, Monica; English, Will – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1994
Development and implementation of a shared distributed computing architecture at the University of Alberta (Canada) are described. Aspects discussed include design of the architecture, users' views of the electronic environment, technical and managerial challenges, and the campuswide human infrastructures needed to manage such an integrated…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Administration, College Planning, Computer Oriented Programs
Beltrametti, Monica – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1993
In a six-month period, the University of Alberta (Canada) campus computing services department formulated a strategic plan, and downsized and reorganized to meet financial constraints and respond to changing technology, especially distributed computing. The new department is organized to react more effectively to trends in technology and user…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Decentralization
Bent, Dale; Enright, William – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1990
A methodology to assist decision making about the relative priorities of alternative projects developed at the University of Western Ontario is described. The method identifies the principal options for information systems development and permits application of executive judgment to the strategic importance of competing projects. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
Liang, Chaucer Chaoyun; Cheng, Frank; Wang, Eunice Hsaio-Hui – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1998
Describes an ongoing reengineering project at Yuan Ze University (Taiwan) that has brought about significant change by providing integrated information services to the campus community. Discusses the change process, obstacles encountered, and strategies used to overcome them. Obstacles to the change process were not predominantly technological,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Administration, Foreign Countries
Daniel, John; Leavitt, Michael; Romer, Roy – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1998
An administrator of the United Kingdom's Open University and two cofounders of Western Governors University participate in a panel discussion of higher education in a global marketplace, the potential for new networked delivery strategies, the future of selective, conventional institutions and the traditional student experience, the influence of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, College Role, College Students
