Technology Planning
A recent question about technology plans got me wondering how long developing a technology plan should take? More than a few months and you run the risk of the technology overtaking your plan.
Technology plans have, essentially, three parts: an inventory of your current technology status (policies, hardware, software, training, staff and consultant expertise); an environmental scan outlining hardware, software, emerging technologies, training availability; and a comprehensive plan for future development for no more than three, possibly five years.
If you don't have the in house expertise, you need to hire in the consultant help. In DC, I use a wonderful group that works exclusively with nonprofits called Community IT Innovators http://www.citidc.com./
How to write a technology plan for IMLS:
http://www.mlin.lib.ma.us/grants/erate/techplan/index.php
Stephen Toney's view of your museum has technology figuring large. Toney and I worked together at the Smithsonian back in the day. The article gives a fairly comprehensive overview of the work. It's serious work, the kind of work that can drive a director crazy because it takes so much time (and money) just in the planning. The article is 2000 so it is somewhat dated but it holds, I think. http://www.systemsplanning.com/mnc3.asp
Technology plans have, essentially, three parts: an inventory of your current technology status (policies, hardware, software, training, staff and consultant expertise); an environmental scan outlining hardware, software, emerging technologies, training availability; and a comprehensive plan for future development for no more than three, possibly five years.
If you don't have the in house expertise, you need to hire in the consultant help. In DC, I use a wonderful group that works exclusively with nonprofits called Community IT Innovators http://www.citidc.com./
How to write a technology plan for IMLS:
http://www.mlin.lib.ma.us/grants/erate/techplan/index.php
Stephen Toney's view of your museum has technology figuring large. Toney and I worked together at the Smithsonian back in the day. The article gives a fairly comprehensive overview of the work. It's serious work, the kind of work that can drive a director crazy because it takes so much time (and money) just in the planning. The article is 2000 so it is somewhat dated but it holds, I think. http://www.systemsplanning.com/mnc3.asp
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