At the Educause 2008 conference (October 2008), in addition to co-leading a pre-conference course on EA, I was interviewed about BCIT’s Enterprise Architecture development and practice. In the podcast, I summarize how we got started, our EA journey and some tips on what things worked for us.
Here is a link to a series of interviews conducted at the conference: http://www.educause.edu/blog/23266
My interview was published yesterday and here is the link to the podcast (14 mins 3 secs):
http://www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/E08PodcastAnInterviewwithLeode/176291
Enjoy and as always, your comments and feedback are very welcome.
September is always a busy time for Higher Education. This is BCIT’s big term startup in North America and we try to keep our technology changes to a minimum to ensure good service to our students, faculty and staff.
On Sept 4th, I completed one year as the Manager, Business Application Services and Enterprise Architecture. It was a great year in which I learned far more than I ever imagined in the areas of leadership, planning, team development and portfolio management. I am very fortunate to have a great team to lead and have mentors on the management team to learn from. Thanks Team!! I am looking forward to this next year as we begin to leverage the ERP upgrade from July 2008 to deliver new services to BCIT.
On a professional development side, I am working to complete a Masters Certificate in Management Excellence from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. I also enrolled into the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Software Research Certified Enterprise Architect program. This program is taught by Dr Scott Bernard who I met on my trip to the University of Alaska. I am the Student Project Manager and will be working with a large group of students to deliver a populated EA model for a fictious aerospace company. We have students from around the globe on this project. Read more...
Here is an update to my earlier post about the Higher Education Technology Symposium at Microsoft on Oct 22nd … I received the link to the presentations from the day … enjoy!
Presentations
- Microsoft Public Sector and Higher Education (Microsoft Office PowerPoint file, 1.6 MB) Ralph Young, Vice President, Microsoft World Wide Public Sector
- The Collaborative Campus (Microsoft PowerPoint file, 13.5 MB) Olaf Hubel, Enterprise Technology Strategist, Microsoft Corporation Walter Harp, Group Product Manager, Windows Live@Edu
- Disruption in the Academy: A Case for Catalytic Innovation (Microsoft Office PowerPoint file, 3.1 MB) Anoop Gupta, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Education Products Group
- New World of Work (Microsoft Office PowerPoint file, 34 MB) Daniel Rasmus, Director of Information Work Vision, Microsoft Corporation
- Campus Infrastructure Platform (Microsoft Office PowerPoint file, 6 MB) Patrick Hevesi, Enterprise Technology Strategist, Microsoft Corporation
- A Look into Microsoft Research and Innovation (Microsoft PowerPoint file, 9.5 MB) Behrooz Chitsaz, Director, Microsoft IP Strategy, MS Research
- How I Learned to be a Better Teacher from Halo (Microsoft Office PowerPoint file, 5.5 MB) Dr. Jim Ptaszynski, Senior Director, World Wide Higher Education Strategy, Microsoft Corporation
The vendor exhibit at Educause was something to see … over 200 vendors had booths to shop their wares. Here is a summary of some vendors I visited:
Xythos
- cool new UI
- incorporating Web 2.0 features like built in wiki, tagging, saved search
Web Checkout
- schedule, manage and maintain
- www.webcheckout.net
- billing, repair, maintenance, email messaging, integration for data exchange, media management, patron initiated reservation
Fortinet
- unified threat management with logging FortiAnalyzer and FortiManager
- modular, multilayered security
rSmart Sakai CLE (collaboration and learning environment)
TouchNet – Seek N Secure
- PCI Data Security Standard – cool product that allows scanning disk storage looking for SIN, Student ID, credit card numbers on our network storage
- provides in context search for where possible data exposures are located
- may be a very good tool to support our 350x policies
Adobe Read more...
- Adobe Air (Adobe Integrated Runtime) – Web 2.0 in Education – the emergence of Rich Internet Applications
- Sungard HE is using Adobe Flex for their new product offerings in Enrolment Management
Day 2 @ Educause – Preconference Session
I registered for two preconference sessions …
Aligning IT Leadership with Institutional Missions: The Reality of Being a CIO
The session was lead by 4 CIOs. The session had about 60 attendees. Each of the 4 presenters took turns talking about various factors that a CIO needs to align with in order to be successful. Some key points:
- have a prepared short message about several key topics so your are ready to communicate when you get a chance
- Culture is important – build your team with people who have a customer service approach ( also refer to Jim Collins “Good to Great”)
- Identity Management will drive the creation of a service team made up of IT, HR and Registrar Office staff
- as a CIO book regular meetings with your key stakeholders – proactive communication
- when making architecture decisions; it is not just yes or no – try “whoa” so a discussion can occur
I found the discussion and Q and A sessions with the attendees to be very valuable on various levels.
Let’s Get Visual! Integrating Concept Maps, Rich Media, Social Software, and the LMS into Teaching and Learning Read more...
This week I am in Seattle, WA at the Educause 2007 Annual Conference. I am really looking forward to the week starting with a train ride from Vancouver, BC to Seattle, WA on the Amtrak Cascades route.
Today, I spent the day with peers and colleagues at the Microsoft Redmond Campus at the Higher Education Technology Symposium. The day started early … 7:30am pickup in downtown Seattle and did not finish until after 6pm.
The first session talked about shifting Microsoft to:
- customer driven innovation
- global commitment to education
- relevance in programs, products and policies
Saw a familiar graphic with a vendor twist …
Instead of the standard EA and IT “people, process and technology”, we saw a de-emphasis (I hope that is a word!) of technology and got “people, process and preparedness“. I was pleased to see a common theme of “Scalability” all day long.
Collaboration was a big focus with Sharepoint Platform Services – deployed as hosted services as well as installed as local software. Hosted services will continue to be a challenge for Canadian (and non US) Higher Ed Institutions as long as we have to deal with the US Patriot Act. There was a great talk on Campus Infrastructure Platform that is very informative in a discussion of building a solid base infrastructure for future delivery of technology. Read more...