• Rebranding ITANA 2012

    ITANA wiki: Working Groups ITANA is coming up on its fifth birthday. We have a working group looking at the future direction for ITANA. In the future, look for more formal publications, on-line courses and a focus on peer-group building and mentoring.
  • Environmental Scan of SOA in HE

    ITANA wiki: Working Groups It has been several years since we last had a look at the state of Service Oriented Architecture in Higher Education. This group is looking at case studies across higher education to learn where we are moving forward and what is holding us back.

Recent Articles

Leadership Lessons from Capability Mapping

The Capability Mapping exercise provided me with several insights into ITANA and the strategy for taking ITANA forward.  I walked through each section of the Capability Map in the four previous posts (1, 2, 3 and 4).   In this post, I’ll cover the leadership insights that came from both the mapping process and the [...]

ITANA Capability Map Walkthrough Part 4

ITANA Community-Facing Capaiblities

Overview We created a Capability Map for ITANA during the ITANA Rebranding 2012 exercise.  This is the forth part of the walk-through of the Capability Map, covering the Community Facing Capabilities.   This portion of the Capability Map gave me some of my greatest insights into my leadership strategy for ITANA.  The next (and last) post [...]

ITANA Capability Map Walkthrough Part 3

ITANA Support Capabilities

Overview We created a Capability Map for ITANA during the ITANA Rebranding 2012 exercise.  This is the third part of the walk-through of the capability map.   This part covers the Support Capabilities.   The final two parts of the series will cover the Community Facing Capabilities and Lessons Learned from Capability Mapping. Parts 1 [...]

ITANA Capability Map Walkthrough Part 2

ITANA's Service Capabilities

Overview We created a Capability Map for ITANA during the ITANA Rebranding 2012 exercise.  This is the second part of the walk-through of the capability map.  The first part covered ITANA’s Strategic Capabilities.  This part covers the Service Capabilities.

ITANA Capability Map Walkthrough Part 1

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Overview We created a Capability Map for ITANA during the ITANA Rebranding 2012 exercise. The capability map gave us insight into three areas where we should focus our efforts in the future. ITANA should look to produce more formal publications including articles, videos and session captures to better meet the Publication channel. We should also [...]

New to ITANA? Lurker on the list?

Several people are new to ITANA and many of your are lurkers on the email list. Below is a quick FAQ on participating in ITANA. Q: I want to get involved but don’t know where to start.

AACRAO Tech 2010 Slides

Here are my slides from the AACRAO Tech 2010 conference AACRAO Tech 2010 -http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=aacraotechdeck-100723164301-phpapp01&stripped_title=aacrao-tech-2010 View more presentations from jimphelps.

ITANA at AACRAO Tech 2010

Hi All, I’ll be presenting on Monday, July 19th at AACRAO Tech 2010. If you going to be at AACRAO Tech, come to the session. I’ll share a link to my handouts with the email list. Architecture and the Registrar’s Office (RO): A Strategic Alliance Time: Monday 11:05 am – 12:15 pm Location: Pershing West [...]

EA in HE Survey 2010

The Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education Survey is now live. You can take the survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ea_in_he_2010 If you would like to read through questions prior to taking the survey, you can download a PDF of the questions following the link below. Note that the survey has logic so you may not see all the [...]