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By admin on
10/31/2006
Even small institutions face some of the challenges of central vs. decentralization in terms of their advancement operations. What are some of the questions and possible challenges that we need to consider when designing our organizations to be effective? (Note: these are not in a priority order.)
How do the various mission statements of the central and decentralized units mesh or are different?
How do best practices get articulated down to all levels of the organization so that advancement is “institutionalized” throughout the organization? This is difficult to do even in just a central department, particularly with staff turnover.
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By admin on
10/31/2006
A few years ago some colleagues and I attended an event where Reverend Jesse Jackson was speaking. He uses alliteration a lot, and the one expression he repeated throughout was “we work every day.” Well, as you can imagine, we glommed onto that one pretty quickly and it soon became a standard office phrase whenever we were working late.
So where is this going?
We do work every day but sometimes we really need to step back and figure out what we are working for, and what are some of the ways we can improve our organizations. Simply put, to create a better customer experience.
I recently got back from helping my daughter register for college, and you know, there are some commonalities in our institutions, that we may need ...
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By admin on
10/31/2006
We recently had the privilege of hearing Vint Cerf, one of the “founding fathers” of what we know as the “Internet”. So here’s some stream of consciousness thoughts from someone who’s been in “the business” since before many of us were born.
The title of the talk was “Uncovering the Science in Computer Science” where Vint was speaking to the need to re-formulate the way we think about computer science, and where and what this “science” needs to evolve to in the future if we are to be more successful.
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