The introduction, deployment, maintenance, and renewal of information technology present a number of challenges and opportunities to any organization, including institutions of higher learning.
Organizations can acquire information rapidly, enabling individuals to make better decisions.
Efficiencies can be appreciated when tedious manual processes are reengineered and nested in technologicallysmart processes. Communications between and among individuals and subdivisions can be enhanced. In institutions of higher education, new learning environments can be created and the scope and breadth of the institutions' educational offerings can be expanded. These are only several of the benefits that can accrue to organizations that have a vision on the use of information technology. Institutions of higher learning may well look like other organizations when one studies the interrelationship between institutional information requirements and information technology.