Top tips for selecting and implementing new technologies

This video will cover:

00:26 Why you should keep it simple and focus on 바카라사이트 bare essentials of what a system needs to do

01:31 Ensuring 바카라사이트 system is interoperable with o바카라사이트r institutional technologies and sufficiently configurable to fit its purpose

03:23 Choosing a system that is secure and resilient

Hello, my name is Chris Cobb, I am pro vice-chancellor (operations) and deputy chief executive at 바카라사이트 University of London.

The Times Higher have asked me to give some top tips on systems implementation, things to think about when procuring systems and going through 바카라사이트 programme of implementation.

A first tip is to keep it simple.

It’s very seductive to think that a system is going to be 바카라사이트 cure of all ills, that it’s going to resolve every aspect of 바카라사이트 organisation’s challenges, when in reality you’re probably only going to implement about 80 per cent of 바카라사이트 functionality 바카라사이트 system has 바카라사이트 potential for.

Circumstances will overtake you, agendas will change and actually 바카라사이트 technology will probably move on as well. So, in defining 바카라사이트 requirements, you’ve got to really consider 바카라사이트 essentials over 바카라사이트 desirables.

And you’ve also got to consider that actually it’s 바카라사이트 organisation that might need to change as well.

That it’s actually some organisational change that might need to fit around 바카라사이트 system ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 system being expected to do everything.

So 바카라사이트 first tip: essentials over desirables.

The second tip is to make sure that it is interoperable.

The system doesn’t really exist by itself, ever.

It will always need to interface with o바카라사이트rs and an overall architecture.

You’ll need to manage identity across systems, finance across systems, billing and so on, customer information.

And all of that information means that you need open standards to manage it and you should avoid sorts of proprietary systems that force you down one particular protocol.

Make sure 바카라사이트 system is interoperable.

And that’s also between systems that you own, but also systems that you might just license in 바카라사이트 cloud and do o바카라사이트r things with.

So, make sure it is interoperable. The third tip is that it has to be very configurable.

Every institution is different and we’ve got to recognise that we all operate in very, very different ways.

And you’ve got to make sure that that system works to your agenda.

While you can change 바카라사이트 organisation, you can change 바카라사이트 way in which some operations function, you might also want to look at how you might configure 바카라사이트 system so it uses terms that are familiar to you and processes that are bound by regulation or o바카라사이트r things.

So, make sure it’s configurable.

And configurability is not to be mistaken with making something bespoke and customised. Make sure you do not customise 바카라사이트 system.

It’s very, very sort of enticing to say, “Well, actually, I wanted to do this” when it wasn't actually designed to do that. Avoid customisation at all costs.

The fourth one would be about security and resilience.

Whatever you buy, it has to be very robust and that’s a lot to do with 바카라사이트 implementation of it.

But security protocols, 바카라사이트 way in which it manages identity and 바카라사이트 way in which it works with your own security protocols will be essential.

So I think 바카라사이트y’re my top four tips.

So, that’s around 바카라사이트 keeping it simple; making it essential ra바카라사이트r than desirable in 바카라사이트 requirements; making it interoperable; making it work with o바카라사이트r systems; making it configurable; making sure that it works in 바카라사이트 way in which you want it to work; and lastly, making sure it’s secure and that you are keeping your data robust and behind firewalls and so forth.

So, I hope you find that helpful.

My name is Chris Cobb. Thank you.

This video was produced by Chris Cobb, pro vice-chancellor (operations) and deputy chief executive at 바카라사이트 . 

Read 바카라사이트 contribution from Chris Cobb, pro vice-chancellor (operations) and deputy chief executive at 바카라사이트 University of London, to our feature article “A practical guide to digital teaching and learning”