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Tom Payne
NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Tom Payne has been helping clients across a multitude of industries evaluate and implement industry leading technology solutions for more than 15 years. He is the National Director of Business Development for CIBER’s Higher Education Practice, and he has worked almost exclusively with colleges and universities for the last 10 years. Tom resides in Cincinnati, OH with his wife, April and son, Austin.
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Use DecisionDirector to Jump Start Your Project
Tom Payne, National Director of Business Development : 16 August 2010 / 1:52 PM : 1 
No one plans to fail, some just fail to plan! We have all heard this old adage. It can be no truer than applying it to the large and complex administrative software projects taking place on campuses across the country and around the globe. Colleges and universities are trying to become more “commercialized” and thinking more about the bottom line when approaching these grandiose technology projects. Obtaining true return on technology investments is driving the decisions made on the same campuses that pre-Y2K would have been less scrutinizing in how dollars were spent within IT. The end-users of the technology, the “consu...
Posted in Higher Education on 16 August 2010
Tagged: Business Continuity Business Impact Analysis CIO IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment IT Value Oracle Process Improvement
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The Dilemma: University Project Priorities Vs University Budget Cuts – The Solution: Stimulus Funds
Tom Payne, National Director of Business Development : 09 September 2009 / 8:59 AM : 0
Higher education is certainly not immune to the burdens of adapting to the rapid pace of technological change. This, however, is hardly a new phenomenon. The rate of change has been increasing for decades and the demands of the customers that IT must support are growing almost as quickly. So, with all of this change ever constant and all around us, I am amazed each year at the number of colleges and universities that have managed to operate on legacy administrative systems that are several decades old. Suffice it to say, a majority of colleges and universities have made the leap to new enterprise-wide systems in the last 10-15 years. But there are still...
Posted in Higher Education on 09 September 2009
Tagged: Business Value Campus Solutions CIO ERP IT Planning IT Value Project Management Stimulus Funding Student Systems
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