Spring 2010 Management Symposium

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The deadline for submitting an abstract has been extended to November 20, 2009.

Submit a Proposal Abstract

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IT - A BEACON FOR INNOVATION AND GROWTH

This symposium focuses on topics relevant to IT decision-makers such as CIOs, directors, managers, project and team leaders, and future IT leaders. Share your management experiences, ideas, and innovative approaches and perspectives to new or ongoing challenges. Lead a thought-provoking discussion on emerging issues for IT management affecting all IT organizations.

The Symposium consists of three tracks:

• Strategic Planning, Collaborations and Enriching Services
• Innovation: Options, Implementations, and Technical Solutions
• Leadership, Management, and Professional Development Strategies

STRATEGIC PLANNING, COLLABORATIONS, AND ENRICHING SERVICES

Planning and collaboration are required skills for leading IT in today's higher education environment. IT leaders must be engaged in strategic, tactical, and project planning. Internal and external collaborations, IT governance structures, and appropriate funding are critical to IT organizations and their institutions. This track focuses on the tools and skills required for building and leading forward-thinking organizations empowered to anticipate and respond to the changing higher education environment of the 21st century.

Possible topics for this track:

• Effective collaborations within the institution to deliver new and/or enhanced services
• Developing and implementing effective IT policies in areas such as privacy, security, copyright, and intellectual property
• ITIL, COBIT, and other governance models
• Balancing service delivery costs and funding
• IT funding challenges, strategies, and solutions
• Project approval and prioritization process and portfolio management
• Partnering with faculty to enhance the core missions of teaching, learning, and research with technology
• Disaster recovery, business continuity, and pandemic planning
• Institutional collaborations for shared services, disaster recovery, business continuity, and purchasing
• Library and IT partnerships and integration - what are the models?
• Strategic partnerships with vendors, competitors, and customers
• Integrating IT and campus strategic plans
• Developing, communicating, and implementing strategic plans
• Legislation relevant to universities and IT

INNOVATIONS: OPTIONS, IMPLEMENTATIONS AND TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS

Emerging technologies continue to impact institutions of higher education and their IT infrastructures. For our institutions to remain vibrant and vital, IT leaders must make wisely calculated decisions about emerging technologies that support the mission and goals of their institutions in a cost-effective and efficient manner to enhance teaching and learning and facilitate campus operations. This track explores emerging technologies and how IT leaders select, implement, apply, and support innovation in support of their vision.

Possible topics for this track:

• Managing and securing mobile technologies
• Virtual worlds and their applications, challenges, and support requirements
• Selecting and implementing learning and collaboration tools such as classroom response systems, podcasting,
      wikis, VoIP, portals, online communities, streaming video and telepresence
• E-portfolio systems
• Content/Course/Learning management systems
• Challenges in supporting an online learning environment
• Enterprise Resource Planning systems
• Innovative technology in support of research
• Identity and access management
• Stimulating, planning, and managing innovation
• Learning space design
• Developing campus cyberinfrastructure
• IT and the 'Greening' of the University
• Open source developments
• Outsourcing services; what, when, and why
• Asset management for hardware and software
• Network and data security
• E-discovery and data storage policies, requirements, and accountability
• How and when to create a catalog of IT services
• Technology without the hype

LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT STATEGIES

Developing and recruiting leaders for the IT organizations of today and tomorrow is critical for IT in higher education. Leaders must develop, articulate, and implement a strong work ethic and vision for their institutions and effectively communicate this vision throughout their institutions to create an environment that motivates, inspires, and nurtures professional development. Leadership, staff development, and the 'soft skills' required for communicating and leading within our institutions are the focus of this track.

Possible topics for this track:

• Identifying and developing future leaders
• Succession planning for IT leadership continuity
• Essential leadership skills for the new leader
• Leadership principles and practices
• Effective recruitment strategies and techniques
• Nurturing you professional career
• Faculty technology development--new approaches to the old problem of faculty time
• Leading from any position in the organization: what does it take?
• Leading technical staff in the era of globalization, open source, Web. 2.0, security, and accountability
• Recognizing and rewarding staff performance
• Marketing IT services within the institution
• Professional development for the hard skills and the soft skills
• Best practices in effective communication
• Communicating with the jargon
• Managing and leading from the middle-skills for mid-level managers
• Soft skills: verbal and written communication, effective presentations, mentoring, coaching, time management,
      goal setting, team-building, relationship building, negotiating, networking, cultural awareness, meeting etiquette

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

We encourage you to participate by presenting and leading a facilitated discussion session or organizing a panel.

You may submit an abstract for either a:

• Presentation with facilitated discussion
• Concise 60 minutes
• In-depth 90 minutes
• Panel with facilitated discussion
• Concise 60 minutes
• In-depth 90 minutes
  
  

Abstracts should be 150 to 300 words and will be reviewed for clarity, relevance to IT management in higher education, professionalism, as well as strategy for facilitating discussion. Use the on-line web form to submit abstracts.

Your abstract will be included in the printed program. Following the symposium, we ask that you provide presentation files for posting to the symposium web site.

Vendors may be invited by a higher education presenter or panelist to participate in a presentation or panel but not as a stand-alone vendor presentation. Vendor sponsorships are welcome and sponsoring vendors are invited to an evening reception with vendor exhibits. To become a vendor sponsor, please complete the Contributor Contact Information Form.

SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT

Please submit your proposal abstract by November 20, 2009.

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