2021 Tambellini Technology Leadership Award Winners Announced
In a year defined by heroic efforts and rapid innovation on campuses across the country, The Tambellini Technology Leadership Awards highlight the individuals and teams who stand out for their exceptional commitment and success in driving impactful technology initiatives in service of their institutional constituents. After receiving a record number of nominations from higher education institutions […]
IT Campaign Playbook: CIOs Share Tips for a Successful CRM Enterprise Transition
Election day may have come and gone, but political experts will continue to examine and pick apart every candidate’s results to make sense of why their campaigns worked or failed. While higher education technology leaders aren’t elected officials, the most effective ones know that the path to a successful digital transformation begins with a strong […]
Tambellini Helps Colby College Select a Modern HCM and Finance System
“We went live with our Workday deployment as originally planned. The services of Tambellini Group helped us to frame and establish a successful project that withstood the challenges of COVID-19.“ Cindy MitchellCIO, Colby College Background Colby College’s legacy human resources and financial systems are heavily customized and challenging to maintain and support. Recognizing the need […]
Pandemic: Navigating Transformative Change
The year 2020 is like no other we’ve seen in our lifetime. When normality has fallen by the wayside and systemic change is necessary, questions abound. How will campus reopen in the fall? What changes are necessary to support students, staff, and faculty on campus throughout a pandemic? Transformative change has distinct challenges, regardless of […]
Four Trends that Say IT Leaders Should Help Lead the Way
For the last decade, and perhaps more, technology leaders in higher education have been engaged in a debate about the CIO as “strategist” or “plumber” and whether the CIO should have a seat at the senior leadership table. Some have gotten there, only to realize that not all seats are created equally. And then the […]
The Rise of the “Next Normal”: A Three-Pronged Approach for Higher Education IT Leaders
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced higher education institutions to change quickly, and potentially for good. It has shown that colleges and universities can do what was previously unimaginable—enable an entirely remote academic and administrative environment and do it within a matter of weeks. The unyielding constraints of a global health crisis have forced institutions to […]
Easing Out of COVID-19: Three Things for IT Leaders to Focus On
For much of higher education, the descent into the current COVID-19 state looked—and for those in the midst of it, may have felt—a little bit like a crash landing. Many institutions began engaging in continuity planning weeks in advance, but when the decision was made to “go remote,” first for instruction and then for administration, […]
Balancing Strategic Priorities in a Time of Crisis
There’s an age-old tension between urgent and important, and most IT leaders know it all too well. “Don’t let the urgent get in the way of the important,” or so the saying goes. But this is much easier said than done. During ‘normal’ times, one’s day can easily get derailed by a system outage, audit […]
#DearVendor: Those Cold Calls, Though
A couple of weeks ago, I had plans to write about cold calls as my next #DearVendor post. Then COVID-19 hit and those plans—and seemingly all plans—flew right out the window. So I turned my attention instead to writing about how technology companies could best support their higher education constituents during this unprecedented time (see […]
Talent Management in Higher Education
Attracting and retaining IT staff in higher education has always been a challenge, given constrained budgets that are typical in the higher education landscape. These constraints result in lower salaries for people with technical skills, people who can leverage those skills for higher-paying jobs in industry and the public sector. Also, as colleges and universities […]
