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Purpose, Principles and Systems
I just saw a new webinar from the Lean IT Association called Lean IT in Action -A Tale of Two IT Transformations. Very interesting. The basic premise of the webinar is that organizational transformation takes time and commitment at all levels. It takes holding employees responsible for carrying out the commitment. It means doing the hard work first, even…
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Technology Implementation in Student Affairs
Congrats to the newly hooded Dr. Ed Cabellon for recently completing his PhD. His dissertation topic caught my eye: Redefining student affairs through digital technology: a ten-year historiography of digital technology use by student affairs administrators. On his site, he has a new post on a technology implementation model for student affairs (SA), which is…
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20 Miler with T159 Senior Scouts
This was a recent 20 mile hike with some of my senior scouts to complete their hiking merit badge. We had just crossed a dam through shallow water and they were taking a breather. Allyson was with us, but not in the picture. She vowed to never hike that far again. I’ll convince her otherwise.
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Austin takes a break on the AT, 2013
I love this picture! I took it the first year Austin and I hiked the AT together. We didn’t know much back then. He’s bigger now.
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Feeding the Beast
What is the nature of IT Governance (ITG) in Higher Ed? This is a question I, and most of the TAMU IT community, have been wrestling with for a long time. As a Tier One, TAMU has such a distributed model of power (read: budget and decision-making), that common methods of governance don’t really apply.…
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Would love to touch base when you get to Texas.
I really enjoyed reading this. Uncle Tim sent it to me. I plan to move to Fredericksburg by the end…
This was an extremely interesting read. Thanks for sharing. Another song that comes to mind is Led Zeppelin’s Heartbreaker/ Living…
Hi David. Wow, looks like you’ve travelled a lot of miles (25.7) so far. Sorry to hear that you have…
Very nice!