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Five questions to improve your strategy

“Strategic plans” often get a bad rap for being daunting, messy or overwhelming — especially in higher ed where there are many moving (and often decentralized) parts. It can be challenging to apply high-level plans to day-to-day work, determine whether a team or project is strategically aligned or know when it’s time to change course. […]

Maslow was right: The higher ed hierarchy and your digital UX

With the intense pressure on ROI in higher education, telling a compelling story with your digital experience is more important than ever. But what does your audience need at each stage of their journey so they smoothly move forward to the next? And what are the most powerful ways to respond to those needs at […]

Mass migrations: The policy, process, people and politics of a Drupal 7 to 9/10 CMS migration

Large-scale website migrations in higher-ed are never something we look forward to. However, they can be the impetus to implement long-needed improvements to content, information architecture, usability, programing and design. With Drupal 7 end-of-life fast approaching, the Financial and Administrative Services unit within the University of Texas at Austin needed to migrate 41 websites running […]