How CIOs Can Build Dynamic Duos with CFOs: An interview with Hampton Shive, Strategic Advisor
Higher education CIOs know that the long-term success of any institution-wide technology project depends on their effectiveness in building a broad coalition of support across a vast array of leaders and stakeholders with diverse needs and goals. Depending on the focus of any technology initiative, CIOs will understandably need to prioritize garnering buy-in from the […]
iPaaS in Higher Education: An Nascent Market
What’s The Problem? Higher education often lags behind other industries in the adoption of new technology. There are multiple reasons for the lag: Technical investment is difficult to justify to institutional leaders without significant research. Time to implement new core technologies is limited, and delivering new functionality is preferred. Changing how we work is difficult […]
AWS Imagine Conference Is True to Its Name
AWS holds an annual Imagine conference for forward-thinking institutional customers to discuss their strategic AWS successes. The conference is unusual because there is limited conversation about product details. Instead, it focuses on how innovative educators can leverage AWS technology and partnership to change their institutions, the higher education industry, and the world beyond education. In […]
Anthology Together 2022: The Spectacle of Promise and the Desire to Believe
Anthology Together, the joint conference of EdTech’s power couple Anthology and Blackboard, took place in Orlando several weeks ago. For Anthology and Blackboard customers who have waited through significant product delays and support challenges over the last few years, Anthology’s energetic messaging and early evidence of success are an important step forward. Attendees were collectively […]
Promoting Student Success With Digital Transformation
Digital transformation (Dx) is a relatively new and somewhat fraught concept for higher education. Dx in higher education leverages technological innovation to produce shifts in the institutional culture and workforce to generate operational efficiencies, realize cost savings, and improve the institutional value proposition. Despite the potential benefits, higher education institutions are finding it difficult to […]
Tambellini Group’s Higher Education Summit Series: Inspire. Collaborate. Rise.
Built on the principle of “service first,” Tambellini Group’s Higher Education Summit Series is a premier series of events designed to bring together the top minds in higher education all in one place. The series will feature executives in leadership, product management, and strategy from market-leading vendors and answer the top-of-mind questions from today’s institutional […]
Process Automation in Higher Ed: Hype or Reality?
Hype. Whether scrolling through Twitter, LinkedIn, or your email, you cannot escape the hype around low code and robotic process automation (RPA). So, as you hear the hype, you may be inclined to read a little, then continue to scroll past it, given everything else on your plate. We’ve always dealt with the latest hyped […]
Four Technologies Higher Ed Apps Leaders Should be Investing in for 2021
So, 2020 did not go as we expected—in really any facet of our personal or professional lives. Our plans were derailed, so planning for 2021 is even more daunting than our normal annual planning. Should we just extend our 2020 plans? Or start over with what we’ve learned this year? What can we expect to […]
