On Wednesday, Educause released a research report titled Information Technology Alignment in Higher Education, from which these key findings (PDF) are freely available to non-subscribers. IT Governance and institutional alignment are hot topics today:
Institutions must look outward as well as inward in the alignment process. Strategic planning is greatly enhanced by a broad, deliberate, and formal look at external forces in the environment and how they might affect higher education. Today, this need to understand the external world is becoming even greater, driven by increasing globalization and connectivity, the ever accelerating pace of change, increasingly complexity of the regulatory environment, new types of educational competition, rising potential for disruption, and a more volatile economic environment.
