{"id":4876,"date":"2017-08-31T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:16","slug":"it-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/31\/it-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"The IT workforce: A journey of continuous change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4877\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4877\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4877\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-e1504195878244.jpg\" alt=\"bus on road with signs pointing in different directions\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(EDUCAUSE Review)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How do we make sure higher ed teams are prepared and supported as the pace of academic technology moves ever more quickly? In a wide-ranging article in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2017\/8\/the-it-workforce-a-journey-of-continuous-change\">EDUCAUSE Review,<\/a>&#8221; U-M&#8217;s VPIT-CIO <strong>Kelli Trosvig <\/strong>writes that higher education IT leaders must commit to a journey of continuous change and improvement, driven sometimes by technology and sometimes by culture. &#8220;Expectations of what composes a college or university experience have grown broader and more inclusive, entailing more technology in an ever-connected world,&#8221; writes Trosvig. &#8220;Today&#8217;s technology organizations need to balance promoting discovery, which involves inquiry and risk-taking, with providing rock-solid, dependable services at scale, which involves a high level of complexity and coordination. Doing both requires thinking innovatively and working with others across campus and outside the institution. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we make sure higher ed teams are prepared and supported as the pace of academic technology moves ever more quickly? In a wide-ranging article in &#8220;EDUCAUSE Review,&#8221; U-M&#8217;s VPIT-CIO Kelli Trosvig writes that higher education IT leaders must commit to a journey of continuous change and improvement, driven sometimes by technology and sometimes by culture. &#8220;Expectations\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/31\/it-workforce\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,21,46],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-cio","tag-innovation","tag-strategy"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-e1504195878244.jpg",600,337,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-125x70.jpg",125,70,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-e1504195878244.jpg",600,337,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-700x394.jpg",600,338,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-e1504195878244.jpg",600,337,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-e1504195878244.jpg",600,337,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-665x374.jpg",665,374,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/change-bus-e1504195878244.jpg",400,225,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"How do we make sure higher ed teams are prepared and supported as the pace of academic technology moves ever more quickly? 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