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So technology is shaping our organization, or
I should say reshaping our organization in a lot of ways.
If you think about in the past, a workstation where you had a desktop and
you were tied to that desktop all day and the work you did was there,
we know that's not the modern workplace and we know that's not how people
work most effectively and efficiently in their day-to-day tasks.
So technology is really helping us rethink what the day-to-day activities are.
We're moving to a complete wireless experience for our faculty, staff and
students.
Which includes things like wireless printing, wireless projecting,
mobile technologies, laptops instead of desktops.
So really, not just transforming what the work is we do but how we do the work.
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Technology is important in higher education cuz it really permeates
everything we do.
I think if we look into the future and close your eyes,
there's way more technology than less.
We're in this time where we're making a transition in our society to these
new type of jobs.
If we believe the statistics,
the jobs that we're preparing our students for aren't created yet.
So what our students are gonna do in 2030, we don't know, those jobs aren't there.
But we know that technology's gonna play a component.
And I think in higher education it's our role to prepare students for
that future workforce and that future environment of work.
And it's not just about technology in education,
it's about using technology to solve problems in a new and interesting way.
And whether that's helping a farmer grow
crops more efficiently or more effectively.
Whether that's figuring out a new cure for a disease.
Whether that's a new public policy or how our government works.
All of those things, I think, will have a technology component as we go forward.
And what we're doing here at Ohio State is preparing our students for
that new workforce.
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So here at Ohio State, we have a lot of big initiatives to help us transform to
meet these new modern work environments.
One is our enterprise project,
our conversion of our ERP systems from PeopleSoft to Workday.
And this is gonna do a couple of things.
One is, I always like to say the democratization of data.
Make data readily available to all people at the university so
that they can make better decisions faster, quicker.
And then two, make us more efficient as a university,
through a more mobile-friendly experience,
whether that's an easier travel portal, or how you do your time and leave.
All of those things will be wrapped up in that product that will take
Ohio State into this new future workforce.
The second, and I really think most exciting thing we're doing at
the university is the Digital Flagship Initiative.
Digital Flagship is a student experience initiative where our students
are receiving technology, an iPad, case, cover, pencil, keyboard, and the care
of that device, and the management of the device from the university.
They're receiving coding curriculum, and they're learning how to live and
work in this app economy.
And we see the app economy as the sort of center of all this,
the center of the future growth and jobs,
the center for a future developmental needs.
And preparing students to do that when they leave here and
be able to engage in that space is the primary goal of those projects.
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