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If you want a snapshot showing what happens to companies that resist the tides of change, ask Barbara Kunkel about her days at Eastman Kodak, the company that put cameras in the hands of millions until the tide came rushing in. “They missed the mark in innovation and it cost them because the business model […]

It’s the last week in July, and at Pickens Elementary in Pickens, South Carolina, dozens of students are filing off the bus and into the modest brick school. Over the next four hours, instructors will conduct a series of reading lessons via newly issued iPads. Once the day’s learning is done, the buses will return […]

He’s no ornithologist, but Barry Kallmeyer is a big fan of owls. Owl Labs 360-degree cameras, that is—the ones he and his IT team have been installing in classrooms at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, as the school reopens with a hybrid learning model amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The cameras are the latest […]

In Westchester County, New York, SMART EDISON isn’t just an ode to the inventor of the light bulb. It makes up connected acronyms that John McCaffrey plugs into while overseeing info-tech in the sprawling county that has New York City at its southern border. That’s SMART as in specific, measurable, accountable, relevant, timely—the five tangibles […]

There’s no hyper-technological term for it, just “single view of the customer.” Or anyway that’s the label that Chief Information Officer Benjamin Ernesto Hernandez has given his next major initiative in the info-tech department of Mexico’s leading airline carrier. Now in his second go-around with Aeromexico—he’s been CIO since 2012—Hernandez remembers a time when the […]

Imagine this: Roughly 1,000 nurses converging for a multi-day training event. To make it happen, there are the logistics of flights and other transportation, as well as hotel rooms, meals, arranging speakers, programming and workshops. For the employer, it’s a whole lot of money and effort. For the worker, it takes a physical toll, not […]

Bernie Castro began his career in information technology while he was still pursuing his undergraduate degree in business management at William Paterson University in New Jersey. Working as a student technology consultant, Castro trained faculty on various educational technology tools to be applied in the classrooms. It was at this position that Castro found his […]

Back in 1882, the year Virginia State University was founded, food production was still very much a binary matter: the more hooves and hands in the field, the bigger and better the yield. By contrast, modern agriculture has—for better or worse—become a question of manufacturing; one with which VSU agronomists have increasingly had to grapple […]

Saint Michael’s College sits on a pristine 440-acre campus just outside of Burlington in Colchester, Vermont. Since 1904 the small liberal arts and sciences school has served students within a close-knit community. Saint Michael’s is currently home to 2,000 undergrads and more than 500 commuter and graduate students. With an 11:1 student-to-faculty ratio, Saint Michael’s […]

It’s a unique institution of higher learning on the Georgia-Alabama line. Point University—Atlanta Christian College, pre-2011—has several times as many students learning remotely than the 700 on campus. A diverse student population too, many of them adults from far away, but united in Christian faith. Such an operation can’t be run on good faith alone, […]