Behind the Curve: Higher Education's Efforts to Implement Advanced Information Systems

A rapidly changing and increasingly hostile environment creates incentives for organizations in the higher education sector to invest in high capability information systems technology. However, effective adoption and implementation of such systems has been rarer than one would expect. Using interviews of higher education administrators, this paper identifies structural, cultural, and strategic reasons for this shortfall. That which must be overcome to prepare colleges and universities for the information-intensive future is discussed.