Good Evening All,

I wanted to share with you Educause's Top 10 Issues in IT in Higher Education for 2015

Top 10 IT Issues, 2015

1. Hiring and retaining qualified staff, and updating the knowledge and skills of existing technology staff
2. Optimizing the use of technology in teaching and learning in collaboration with academic leadership, including understanding the appropriate level of technology to use
3. Developing IT funding models that sustain core service, support innovation, and facilitate growth
4. Improving student outcomes through an institutional approach that strategically leverages technology
5. Demonstrating the business value of information technology and how technology and the IT organization can help the institution achieve its goals
6. Increasing the IT organization's capacity for managing change, despite differing community needs, priorities, and abilities
7. Providing user support in the new normal—mobile, online education, cloud, and BYOD environments
8. Developing mobile, cloud, and digital security policies that work for most of the institutional community
9. Developing an enterprise IT architecture that can respond to changing conditions and new opportunities
10. Balancing agility, openness, and security

What is interesting about this list is it's not really about IT. It's about people, leadership, and budgets. This is a major change from years past where security or cloud or mobile were top of this list. 

I wonder how this related to both HIgher Ed and K-12. WIth budgets always a crunch does this matter?