Change can be: disorienting, anxiety producing, exhilarating, stressful, scary, risky, etc.

On our campuses we sometimes feel we are being asked to do more with less or more with the same, the same with less, etc.   Expectations continue to rise as IT is recognized as a fundamental enabler of new ways of thinking, possible efficiencies, and new ways of teaching and learning. 

When presented with this situation some people instinctively retreat to the comfort of what they already do, and try to just work harder.  Others just try to keep their heads down and stay below the radar.  A third approach might be counterintuitive and involve considering changing the way we do things, with associated risks and uncertainty.  Can we become campus leaders in "doing things differently"? 

• Eliminating processes rather than automating them
• Collaborating/ partnering with others on and off campus
• Outsourcing things we now do ourselves
• Reorganizing to maximize the impact of staff
• Shortening the hiring/replacement process
• Finding new ways of evaluating what we do
• New ways of providing training
• New ways of solving technology problems