Campus Technology: Reflecting on the Top IT Issues of 2012

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• By Dian Schaffhauser
• 11/15/12

MOOCs may seem to be at the tip of every IT leader's tongue these days, but the No. 1 concern for IT in higher education is staff and skills development, according to the annual "Educause Top-Ten IT Issues 2012" research project run by Educause's Center for Applied Research (ECAR).
According to Susan Grajek, vice president for data research and analytics at Educause, the list of issues was developed with input from a panel of 19 higher ed leaders who met quarterly to identify and prioritize the IT issues their institutions faced. Grajek and others reflected on the findings this month in a session at the Educause annual conference, which took place in Denver.

Top 10 IT Issues for 2012 Updating IT professionals' skills and roles to accommodate new technologies and changing IT delivery models Supporting IT consumerization and bring-your-own device programs Developing a cloud strategy Improving the institution's operational efficiency through IT Integrating IT into institutional decision-making Using analytics to support the important institutional outcomes Funding IT initiatives Transforming the institution's business with IT Supporting research with high-performance computing, large data, and analytics Establishing and implementing IT governance throughout the institution Source: "Educause Top-Ten IT Issues 2012" from Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR)