I’ve been pondering, wondering and worrying about how to bring value out of ITANA.org to the world at large.  I struck upon a metaphor over dinner with a friend at EDUCAUSE recently that brought my vision and the issues I’m pondering into sharp light for me at least.
 
I watched Captains Courageous, a wonderful 1937 [...]

Indiana University
Completed a 10 year Strategic Plan which worked because they connected money to it.  You couldn’t get funding unless you showed how your project connected to one of the 71 strategic initiatives.  Completed a 10 year tactical Telecom Plan.  Instead of replacing 1/4 of the switches every year for four years, they [...]

Data Management  Discussion:
Key Issues:

Data Architecture, Analysis and Design
Data Security Management  – data access and security
Reference and Master Data Management  – making data available rather than copying data
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Management – normalizing the data across the data warehouse
Document, Record and Content Management -
Meta Data Management -

The difference between Structured Data (data in authoritative [...]

Duke University
http://oit.duke.edu/tag/
Tech Architecture group at Duke is charged:

to track emerging technology and raise issues for the CIO’s consideration
review major decisions
integrate into the project management lifecyle
pay attention and champion certain solutions

Developed small set of principles – few enough that they could remember them around four areas:

Data
Infrastructure
Services
Support

Each of these areas are highlighted in each principle’s page (http://oit.duke.edu/tag/principles/p-robust-systems.html)
The [...]

UC Davis
http://vpiet.ucdavis.edu/
Created an Administrative Services Map with eight domains. Each domain has a Domain Convener. All the Domain Conveners gather on a single governance board.

Academic Personnel Adminstration
Enterprise Asset Management and Planning
Student and Curriculum Support
Finance
Information Technology
Alumni and University Relations
Research
Payroll and HR

Just bringing this fruition.
Currently moving to Kuali Financials – this is a “big rock” [...]

The recording of my EDUCAUSE Live presentation is now available on the EDUCAUSE site. EDUCAUSE Live! IT/EA in Academia recording.

Digital neighborhoods seem like a powerful tool for discussing technology and its impact on users (students, staff, researchers, etc) and the concept adds interesting new requirements to projects. Getting a good understanding of your users’ digital neighborhoods can guide design and deployment of new technologies and help predict impacts on the users themselves. [...]

I was thinking about how, when I try to get buy-in for doing Enterprise Architecture as a holistic thing, I tend not get very far with the campus. But, when I parse out little EA bits, they catch on. I was thinking about this in terms of the metaphor: Getting Kids To Eat [...]

Below is a repackaged copy of my “Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments” presentation that I gave at EDUCAUSE Mid-West Regional Conference 2008. It is packaged as a Quicktime Movie.
Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments

Jason Uppal of Quickresponse gave a talk on Building Enterprise Architects at the Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Summit. He mentioned that Toyota judges project success based on
three corporate objectives:
Profit from the Program
Market Share
Learning
These facets got me thinking about our post project reviews. We tend to measure our projects on whether or not [...]