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  Reflections on Distributed (Remote) WorkFebruary 26, 2021
  While working on a contract with an entirely distributed company last year, I had a conversation with my primary contact about the distributed workplace. (This is a company with nearly 1,000 employees and no offices. They had been doing this for yearsContinue reading “Reflections on Distributed (Remote) Work”
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  Change in Higher Education Data and AnalyticsJanuary 23, 2021
  The impacts of covid-19 on postsecondary institutions will be profound and lasting. Now, more than ever, institutions confront a critical need to build capacity to effectively manage and extract value from their data assets. Every higher education institution has an institutional researchContinue reading “Change in Higher Education Data and Analytics”
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  Some global lessons for technology-enabled changeMay 18, 2020
  Digital Estonia Estonia is fascinating. I’m not talking about the whole country, though I bet there’s much to marvel at. I’m talking here specifically about Estonian government. What? Of all the things to be fascinated with, you choose the public sector ofContinue reading “Some global lessons for technology-enabled change”
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  Toward a data-powered organizationFebruary 6, 2020
  Three key components are necessary for managing change toward a data-powered organization. (1) Conceptualize a data ecosystem (2) Invest in the human resource foundation (3) Cultivate a mindset shift They are largely independent of the organization’s particular data assets and technologies. DataContinue reading “Toward a data-powered organization”
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  The key ingredient is peopleJanuary 21, 2020
  What do changing technologies, organizational expectations, politics, and market competition mean for campuses and university systems as you re-envision and build your next generation data infrastructure and analytics team? Bottom line: Your people and how you support them are the keys toContinue reading “The key ingredient is people”

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Our Publications

“Higher Education Decision Support: Building Capacity, Adding Value,” by Daniel Cohen-Vogel, in The Analytics Revolution in Higher Education

Good Books

Telling Your Data Story by Scott Taylor

Team of Teams by Gen. Stanley McChrystal

Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

Machine, Platform, Crowd by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson

What We’re Following

Educause

• A Framework for Developing an Institutional Digital Learning Strategy
• Ripples After We Toss the Pebble
• Why IT Needs to Pay More Attention to Marketing Technology
• Putting All Three Components of Digital Transformation to Work on Campus

Inside Higher Ed