by Mark Greenfield | Oct 10, 2007 | Blog, highedwebflat
One of the first things that someone does when thinking about starting a new business is create a business plan. When I started with the Provost’s Office back in 2001 (as Director of Web Services for Enrollment and Planning), I was asked to do just that. This...
by Mark Greenfield | Oct 10, 2007 | Blog, highedwebflat
I came across this timely post on the Chronicle’s Wired Campus Blog: More Colleges Outsource Information-Technology Services
by Mark Greenfield | Oct 10, 2007 | Blog, highedwebflat
The World is Flat describes how IBM’s Business Consulting Services provides companies with corporate x-rays: “What IBM does is basically x-ray your company and break down every component of your business and put it up on a wall-size screen so you can study...
by Mark Greenfield | Oct 9, 2007 | Blog, highedwebflat
Dramatic changes are happening in the world of work. In his must-read book Free Agent Nation, Dan Pink describes the fundamental change in the form, function and ethic of American work. The subtitle of the book is “The Future of Working for Yourself”,...
by Mark Greenfield | Oct 8, 2007 | Blog, highedwebflat
“We are taking apart each task and sending it around to who can do it best, and because we are in a virtual environment, people need not be physically adjacent to each other, and then we reassemble all the pieces back together …” This quote is from...
by Mark Greenfield | Oct 3, 2007 | Blog, highedwebflat
In the near future stealth fighter parents will soon be replacing helicopter parents (See markagreenfield.com/get-ready-for-stealth-fighter-parents). Neil Howe and William Strauss have recently published the second edition of their book Millennials Go to College and...