Fast, Flexible and Fluid

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Fast, Flexible and Fluid?
Stepping onto many a university campus in 2004 -
as the knowledge society gains momentum a
visitor from 1950 would feel quite at home
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Leadership Challenge
The greatest danger in times of turbulence, is
not the turbulence.. it is to act with
yesterdays logic
Peter Drucker (1991)
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Over the past 25 years USQ has responded
consistently to the tyranny of distance
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USQ discovered and responded to other predominant
mindsets

• Tyranny of Proximity
• Tyranny of Futility
• Tyranny of Eternity

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The typical collegiate decision making process

• Deliberation
• Documentation
• Reflection
• Review
• Refinement

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Through consideration by a series of learned
groups often including

• A working party
• At least one committee
• Several Faculty Boards
• The Academic Board
• The Vice-Chancellors Executive Committee
• The University Council

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Changing a university is like moving a graveyard
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• it is extremely difficult and you dont get much
  internal support

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Denial
Commitment
Resistance
Searching
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Leadership Challenge
Technology is the key variable making possible,
and imperative, the reinvention of the
corporation Stace Dunphy
(2001)
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The institutional capacity to execute an
integrated approach to technology deployment
constitutes a considerable competitive advantage

Leadership Challenge
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Leadership Challenge
Change is the only constant
Proactive continuing commitment to change
management is the key
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Fast, Flexible and Fluid?

• In 1803 the British deployed a military
  attachment to stand on the Cliffs of Dover to
  watch for Napoleon

• It was not until 1927 that the detachment was
  disbanded.........

• Napoleon Bonaparte died in 1821

Source Stace Dunphy (2001)