After the excitement of live daily blogs last week from the UCISA conference, this blog is a few thoughts and reflections. For those that missed them, here are “A View from Crewe” blog 1 and blog 2. I’ve been thinking about where the OU is relative to other universities. We are ahead in some ways – many universities are still grappling with centralising … Continue reading
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View from Crewe day 1; UCISA Support Services Conference
One year into my role as Assistant Director of IT Service delivery at The Open University and I am attending my first external “conference”. I’m at the annual get together of all the folks from different higher education institutions who have the joy of supporting the IT platforms and desktops for the eclectic mix that is … Continue reading
What will be the impact of disruptive technologies?
An email from David Trafford of Formicio pointed me at this really interesting report from McKinsey. His comments (below) got me thinking …. In 1975 the price of the fastest supercomputer was $5 million. Today the iPhone 4 has equal performance and costs merely $400. Between 2007 and 2011 there was a threefold increase in … Continue reading
Moving to pastures new
Great news – I’ve got a new role. From the start of June – I will be heading up Service Delivery at the Open University based in Milton Keynes. Once before in my career (when I saw an advert for the Britannia role in the Sunday Times), I have seen a job and thought “That’s … Continue reading
Making Innovation productive
I spent two very useful days at a CIO conference this week, so I thought I would share some thoughts and themes. These included The maturing of Data Analytics, and how to generate business value from the huge amounts of data we capture. Click here for a really good blog by Chris Skinner on this … Continue reading
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