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Making Changes to Enterprise and Campus Communications Systems Experiences from the Field. Rodger M. Will April 25, 2006. Why This Session?. Communications Systems are Vital Infrastructure and Change is Continuous Technology Evolves and is Important, but not the Only Interesting Theme
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Making Changes to Enterprise and Campus Communications SystemsExperiences from the Field Rodger M. Will April 25, 2006
Why This Session? • Communications Systems are Vital Infrastructure and Change is Continuous • Technology Evolves and is Important, but not the Only Interesting Theme • The Process and Non Technical Effects of Introducing Change Is Sometimes more Interesting than the Technologies Themselves
Some Themes of Interest • User Behavior Change • Unintended Side Effects • Staff Skill Set Issues / Redrawing Departmental Boundaries • Effect of User Owned and Consumer Technologies of Infrastructure • Unintended Financial and Contractual Effects • Emerging Requirements / Premature Obsolescence • Legal and Regulatory Impacts • International Systems • Many Others!!!
Presenters Tyler JohnsonUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Deke KassabianUniversity of Pennsylvania Walt MagnussenTexas A&M University Andrew PalmsUniversity of Michigan-Ann Arbor