Thursday, day 11
June 12th, 2009
Well, here is the end. Everyone feels like summer camp has ended. The group really gelled after just a few days. Many people thought the backnoise channel played a role in that. I have to agree. It was great having a whole second conversation going on. Imagine if during a presentation you could hear the thoughts of other people in the audience, the questions thay had, their comments, the additional resources they know of — that’s what backnoise provided. The faculty made a wordle of the backnoise text
Everyone is pretty exhausted — especially the ones that stayed up to midnight each night (I wasn’t one of those). But I’m still exhausted.
To sum up, here’s 3 types of things I want to take away
- things to do
- check on campus crisis plan
- plan a user support retreat
- include: Pink exercise, hedgehog concept, Terry Hartle view of higher ed
- check on the cognitive cost of voice recorders, flip video, other things
- IT advisory committee
- get “Good to Great for Social Sector”
- things to think about
- managers (doing things right) vs leaders (doing the right things)
- creative leadership model
- current disruptive currents in IT
- things to think differently about
- life-work balance
- looking at things as essential vs. strategic
- cognitive cost of services
- tracking projects in the department