ASPA Professional Development Session

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ASPA Professional Development Session

• How Technology Can Create
• Value and Achieve
• Efficiencies Over Time
• Ed Meachen
• March 30, 2009

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What Kinds of Technologies are available for
geographically dispersed organizations?
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• Conferences and virtual meetings
• Synchronous Systems
• Microsoft Office Live Meeting
• Elluminate Live
• Cisco WebEx
• http//www.elluminate.com/vroom/register.go

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• Social Networking Applications
• Asynchronous/Synchronous
• Blogs, Wikis
• Facebook , MySpace
• Twitter
• Doodle
• http//twitter.com/

http//www.doodle.com/54umw2i2mqexgb2w
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• Collaboration Applications
• Asynchronous
• Email
• ePortfolios
• Sharepoint
• Socious
• http//www.socious.com/software.html

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• Learning Management Systems
• Synchronous/Asynchronous
• Moodle
• Blackboard
• Desire2Learn
• http//demo.moodle.org/course/view.php?id5

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• Enterprise Support Systems
• Task Stream
• Solutions Developers
• Liaison International
• http//www.taskstream.com/pub/AMS.asp

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What is the Business Case for acquiring one or
more of these technologies?
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• Value on Investment
• Does the technology add value to those you serve?
• Does it simplify accreditation?
• Does it reduce mistakes and red tape?
• Does it improve training?

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• Return on Investment
• Does the technology provide a return on
  investment for your organization?
• Are there measurable efficiencies?
• Are there cost savings that eventually balance
  the investments in the technology?

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With many offerings in each of the five
technology areas, whats the best way to select
the right technology and the right vendor?
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Research Requirements Request for Proposals
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• Research
• Gartner
• Forrester
• Professional Organizations
• Colleagues
• Google

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• Requirements
• Business Requirements
• User Requirements
• Functional Requirements
• Nonfunctional Requirements

http//www.theiiba.org/am/
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SaaS model Software as a Service
On Premises model Blended model
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Request for Proposal
http//www.internetraining.com/6art2.htm
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Questions Ed Meachen emeachen_at_uwsa.edu