GRACELAND UNIVERSITY
Success requires buy-in from trustees, executive leadership, and faculty.“ I think one of the key components is making sure that everybody acknowledges this is an institution-wide effort,” Talia says.“ Many people make the mistake of thinking that an ERP transition is an IT project and IT owns it and runs it, and I think it’ s important for the entire institution to acknowledge the change.” Graceland spent time educating stakeholders about what was coming.
A new integrated system means trade-offs. Not every component will satisfy every department perfectly. The institution decides what serves students best and works with the rest. The difference between corporate and education technology work comes down to what happens at commencement. Talia gets to watch as students transform from entering freshmen to seniors walking across the stage ready to take on the world.“ It is certainly the students,” Talia says.“ It’ s so different from a corporate position where you’ re monitoring bottom line and stock prices, where in education, you really get to see, year after year, students walk across the stage witnessing their personal growth.” The work continues. Oracle Student Management implementation has begun. The learning management system conversion is in process and AI agents wait in the wings, ready to activate when the time is right.“ Being able to see that transformation happen on our campus is huge, and I’ m lucky I get to work with a lot of great people both on our campus and as part of the HESS Collective.” Talia says.
technologymagazine. com
185