Patience and Understanding Critical to Successful Transitions

By Michael Stearney - EvoLLLution. 1. Why do institutional leaders look to reengineering organizations as a mechanism to improve operational efficiency?
There are several reasons for this. External forces sometimes drive reengineering. In higher education, we’re facing increasing pressure to achieve operational and cost efficiencies through automation, better integration of services, more sharing of resources — which includes people, data and information — and so on. We simply have to find ways to do things more efficiently within a static or shrinking resource space. More...