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INNOVATOR 2005: Northeastern University
7/28/2005
Next Steps
The next step at NU is
to roll out the SoftGrid and Xythos technologies campuswide so that the institution
can realize the maximum benefits. The university will then turn to using these
technologies to really personalize the experience. The goal is to be able to
automatically authorize and deliver applications to individuals through the
university’s portal, and based on personal attributes. “Consider the possibility
that when a student registers for a certain course, he is immediately given
the ability to access and run the statistics package that is the required tool
used in that course,” suggests Mickool.
Advice
“Press everyone to think differently,”
Mickool advises. New expectations sometimes need to be met with revolutionary
approaches, tools, and practices, he explains. He suggests looking at it from
the point of view of how you as an individual would want to do business with
your organization. “You don’t want to be treated as a faceless number or part
of some vanilla, one-size-fits-all technology solution available 9 to 5, so
why would our fellow faculty, staff, and administrators?” he asserts, adding,
“Keep this mindset with you for the long term, but make sure you take small
first steps so that you can implement them. Don’t get bogged down in trying
to solve all the problems up front.”
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