The Ohio State University Walks Away from Workday Student
Tambellini learned on Wednesday, December 1st, that The Ohio State University (Ohio State) has decided not to move forward with Workday Student at this time. Ohio State’s statement includes an acknowledgment that their implementation of Workday’s Finance and Human Capital Management (HCM) products has left significant system and process optimization work for the school to […]
Leadership Considerations for Selecting a Budget and Planning Tool
As a new budget season approaches, how an institution plans for and executes a new annual budget is top of mind. Over the past several years, the selection and implementation of new, cloud-based budget and planning tools have increased. CIOs can answer key early questions to help prepare their institutions to modernize their budget and […]
Women in Tech: Dr. Melissa Harts
Dr. Melissa Harts, former CIO of Pasco-Hernando State College shares her journey from a young girl who had a knack for teaching to a female leader running an institutional technology strategy.
Why Is Change So Hard for Higher Education?
I have heard this question for decades. Why can’t higher ed modernize, become more efficient, or run more like a business? It is important to recognize that some of the reasons why change is so difficult in this industry are inherent to higher education’s mission and collaborative and collegial structure. Since the mid-1980s, institutions have […]
The New Norm of Institutions Establishing a Virtual Culture
When universities and colleges across the country began reopening their doors, it wasn’t going back that was so uncomfortable for many students. It was differentiating between the option to attend in person or digitally. As a semi-recent college graduate who experienced first-hand both traditional and online schooling, I imagine that many students felt pressured to […]
Change Is Hard: Humanizing Post-COVID Technology Transformation in Higher Education
Change is hard. Tambellini analysts hear a version of this statement from almost every higher education institution considering a significant technology change. As a recent Harvard Business Review article pointed out, “At the heart of any radical change in higher education is a willingness by the administration and faculty to embrace new governance, processes, structures, […]
Women in Tech: Vicki Tambellini
Welcome to Tambellini Group’s Women in Tech series. Tambellini Group’s founder and owner, Vicki Tambellini, talks about her love of business from a very young age and how she fulfilled her dreams of becoming a technology business owner in higher education.
Establishing a Data Management Program
Due to the overwhelming number of inquiries Tambellini analysts are receiving about data management, I want to resurface this blog post that I wrote last June. It starts by outlining the benefits of a full data management program. CTOs, CIOs, and other IT leaders tell us that getting clear on these benefits helps them explain […]
How Higher Ed CIOs Can Support Student Success Initiatives
Although many higher education institutions have for years sought to improve student success (increasingly known as student experience), the visible struggle of many students during COVID-19 renewed the urgency around institutions getting it right—right now. More schools are professionalizing advising, creating new student success divisions, and restructuring student and academic affairs to streamline oversight and […]
Decreasing the Risk to Security Threats Starts with Sound Data Governance
As news breaks on increased cybersecurity threats, CIO leaders often find themselves filling in the gaps and dealing with the most pressing issues regarding data and the possibility of a breach. As noted in a recent article by Inside Higher Ed1, cybersecurity company BlueVoyant published research about the increase in attacks on higher education institutions from […]
