ScottMadden recently partnered with APQC for a complimentary three-part webinar series focused on shared services.
This webinar session focused on the essential activities to plan, launch, and stabilize a new shared services operation including: critical success factors for your business case, top 10 implementation challenges, and three keys to post-launch success.
Why does employee engagement matter? What really drives engagement? And what makes people stay at your company? Discover the key drivers of engagement, enablement and retention and learn how to use them to empower your employees.
ScottMadden recently partnered with APQC for a complimentary three-part webinar series focused on shared services.
This webinar session, presented by Brad DeMent and Jerred Crosby, partners at ScottMadden, addressed employee engagement, continuous improvement, new service offerings, and expanding the scope of operations.
Effectiveness Through Strategy And Organizational Design Seta Wicaksana
Organization Design is a process for shaping the way organizations are structured and run.
It involves many different aspects of life at work, including team formations, shift patterns, lines of reporting, decision-making procedures, communication channels, and more.
Organization Design – and redesign – can help any type of organization to achieve its goals. Sometimes, a large-scale reorganization is necessary. At other points, more subtle shifts in structures and systems can ensure that an organization continues to thrive.
Why does employee engagement matter? What really drives engagement? And what makes people stay at your company? Discover the key drivers of engagement, enablement and retention and learn how to use them to empower your employees.
ScottMadden recently partnered with APQC for a complimentary three-part webinar series focused on shared services.
This webinar session, presented by Brad DeMent and Jerred Crosby, partners at ScottMadden, addressed employee engagement, continuous improvement, new service offerings, and expanding the scope of operations.
Effectiveness Through Strategy And Organizational Design Seta Wicaksana
Organization Design is a process for shaping the way organizations are structured and run.
It involves many different aspects of life at work, including team formations, shift patterns, lines of reporting, decision-making procedures, communication channels, and more.
Organization Design – and redesign – can help any type of organization to achieve its goals. Sometimes, a large-scale reorganization is necessary. At other points, more subtle shifts in structures and systems can ensure that an organization continues to thrive.
HR Analytics: New approaches, higher returns on human capital investmentShanmukha S. Potti
As global economic and political conditions continue to concern business leaders, their attention turns to the various levers that can foster success in uncertain times by looking for competitive insights to the massive data they can now capture. But to date, HR departments have lagged behind the efforts of Marketing, IT, CRM and other functions. The purpose of this paper is to show how business function leaders can start mining data to measure and improve HR's contributions to business performance.
Salesforce Talent Acquisition Practice - Avance ConsultingAvance Consulting
People and technology are our core focus areas. As one of the fastest growing tech. staffing and recruiting firms in the UK and Continental Europe, our fortunes are strongly tied with the areas/specialities we service. Salesforce is one of them. Vala Afshar, Chief Data Evangelist at Salesforce expects the company to create 550K direct jobs and over 1.3mn indirect jobs in India in the next few years, while Marc Benioff expects 4,000 new employees on its payroll over the next 6 months and 12,000 in the next year. With, Salesforce poised to create newer job opportunities, we at Avance Consulting have pulled our resources to establish a new practice - dedicated to Salesforce. We invite you to view, like and share our collateral and leave your comments.
This presentation highlights the required steps for HR Departments to transition themselves into a formidable HR Analytics Team. It will show how to apply HR Analytics to a departmental case as well as the required skill sets for your HR Team to acquire in order to become savvy analytics professionals. #hranalytics #humanresources
Compelling forces in the business landscape drive the need for Integrated
Talent Management
Research shows that companies with stronger Human Capital
Management outperform in both Total Return to Shareholders and
Annualized Return to Shareholders
Human Capital Management is a Leading Indicator of financial
performance
Significant improvement in engagement for the typical S&P 500
company is associated with an increase in revenue per employee of
$4,675 or over $93M per year.
In addition, significant demographic and other trends will continue to drive
talent scarcity
Cost of Talent Acquisition and impact of losing Talent are both increasing
Talent Management is a key driver of Line of Sight and Employee
Commitment – both of which strongly correlate with improved company
performance
We work with CHRO's to develop an HR Strategy & Execution Roadmap . This brochure describes our methodology and approach at a very hight level. Should you be interested to know more about it , do write to niladri.roy@tatransform.com
Full recording: http://bit.ly/1mcEgQD
This slideshare shows why our employees are often be distracted and how to get them back on track. By looking at what drives employee engagement, your teams will learn how to "be in the zone" more often.
In this session we explored innovation as a key driver in efficiently delivering business process operations and effectively meeting the business objectives and goals. Shyam Kerkar, AVP, TCS
A solid business case provides the foundation for implementing a successful shared services organization. This is the first session in an HR Shared Services learning series that ScottMadden presented in conjunction with SSON. In this session, we covered the elements of a good business case including examining current costs, projecting costs and savings based on your future design, and conducting sensitivity analysis to understand possible outcomes. This presentation provides detailed guidelines and lessons learned for developing a sound business case.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
HR Analytics: New approaches, higher returns on human capital investmentShanmukha S. Potti
As global economic and political conditions continue to concern business leaders, their attention turns to the various levers that can foster success in uncertain times by looking for competitive insights to the massive data they can now capture. But to date, HR departments have lagged behind the efforts of Marketing, IT, CRM and other functions. The purpose of this paper is to show how business function leaders can start mining data to measure and improve HR's contributions to business performance.
Salesforce Talent Acquisition Practice - Avance ConsultingAvance Consulting
People and technology are our core focus areas. As one of the fastest growing tech. staffing and recruiting firms in the UK and Continental Europe, our fortunes are strongly tied with the areas/specialities we service. Salesforce is one of them. Vala Afshar, Chief Data Evangelist at Salesforce expects the company to create 550K direct jobs and over 1.3mn indirect jobs in India in the next few years, while Marc Benioff expects 4,000 new employees on its payroll over the next 6 months and 12,000 in the next year. With, Salesforce poised to create newer job opportunities, we at Avance Consulting have pulled our resources to establish a new practice - dedicated to Salesforce. We invite you to view, like and share our collateral and leave your comments.
This presentation highlights the required steps for HR Departments to transition themselves into a formidable HR Analytics Team. It will show how to apply HR Analytics to a departmental case as well as the required skill sets for your HR Team to acquire in order to become savvy analytics professionals. #hranalytics #humanresources
Compelling forces in the business landscape drive the need for Integrated
Talent Management
Research shows that companies with stronger Human Capital
Management outperform in both Total Return to Shareholders and
Annualized Return to Shareholders
Human Capital Management is a Leading Indicator of financial
performance
Significant improvement in engagement for the typical S&P 500
company is associated with an increase in revenue per employee of
$4,675 or over $93M per year.
In addition, significant demographic and other trends will continue to drive
talent scarcity
Cost of Talent Acquisition and impact of losing Talent are both increasing
Talent Management is a key driver of Line of Sight and Employee
Commitment – both of which strongly correlate with improved company
performance
We work with CHRO's to develop an HR Strategy & Execution Roadmap . This brochure describes our methodology and approach at a very hight level. Should you be interested to know more about it , do write to niladri.roy@tatransform.com
Full recording: http://bit.ly/1mcEgQD
This slideshare shows why our employees are often be distracted and how to get them back on track. By looking at what drives employee engagement, your teams will learn how to "be in the zone" more often.
In this session we explored innovation as a key driver in efficiently delivering business process operations and effectively meeting the business objectives and goals. Shyam Kerkar, AVP, TCS
A solid business case provides the foundation for implementing a successful shared services organization. This is the first session in an HR Shared Services learning series that ScottMadden presented in conjunction with SSON. In this session, we covered the elements of a good business case including examining current costs, projecting costs and savings based on your future design, and conducting sensitivity analysis to understand possible outcomes. This presentation provides detailed guidelines and lessons learned for developing a sound business case.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
20/10 Vision: Building A 21st Century Market Research OrganizationGregory Weiss
A strategic vision to create a 21st century market research organization, leveraging technology to provide value-added services and get more return from staff research efforts
Who we are and what we can do for your company.
We believe that prosperity must include company and workers.
We face every challenge with the right thinking and tool: Lean Six Sigma, simulation, design of experiments, change management, training.
A solid business case provides the foundation for implementing a successful shared services organization. This is the first session in an HR Shared Services learning series that ScottMadden presented in conjunction with SSON. In this session, we covered the elements of a good business case including examining current costs, projecting costs and savings based on your future design, and conducting sensitivity analysis to understand possible outcomes. This presentation provides detailed guidelines and lessons learned for developing a sound business case.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
This week Chris Garber was at the EXL LifePRO conference in Naples FL presenting "How to Win Friends and Save Money". The presentation talks about how companies can improve efficiency by 40%+ using process improvement, technology, and data solutions.
“How to win friends and save money”
Improve your efficiency by 40%+ using process improvement, technology, and data solutions.
The competitive landscape, economic environment, and information technology continue to show up on top of the major challenges life insurers will face in the coming years. EXL Consulting will demonstrate that with process improvement, technology, and data solutions you can not only survive, but thrive, in this ever changing environment.
Key topics include:
1) Streamlining processes and improving turnaround time
2) Enhancing staff productivity while reducing errors
3) Improving pricing and customer insights with data federation
4) Modernizing legacy systems
5) Enabling customer self-services and mobile
Successful scope expansion for an existing shared services operation requires careful planning. Scope expansion can take a number of forms such as new services, new customer groups, and new geographies. “Shared Service Expansion” is the fourth session of a HR Shared Services learning series that ScottMadden is presenting along with Shared Services & Outsourcing Network (SSON). In this session, we cover an approach for planning expansion and keys to adding scope while balancing the demands of your current shared services operation.
The North of Scotland is in the midst of a full-scale transformation. Building on a well-established reputation as a global energy hub, the North is fast becoming a key destination for emerging innovation across an increasing range of sectors.
The DIGIT North Summit is designed to bring IT and Digital leaders together and drive practical innovation through shared learning. The event will facilitate cross pollination between key industries, from traditional sectors like Oil & Gas and Agriculture to high-growth fields like: Life Sciences, Biotech, Gaming, Fintech and Space.
The programme will contextualise the key emerging technologies and industry disruptors, and consider the vital role that IT and Digital leaders will play in ensuring organisations can thrive amid a backdrop of market change and economic volatility.
How to Improve Performance with Next-Gen Sales Enablement Technology in Finan...Perficient, Inc.
How are next-generation knowledge management solutions changing the pace of sales and marketing efficiency in financial services?
IT departments for financial firms are investing in enterprise solutions like cloud and mobile technology to improve efficiency, and sales and marketing are no exception. Information is often scattered, compliance approvals for collateral are a burden, and real-time access to the right materials and data is a challenge for most financial services companies.
A lot has changed with knowledge management solutions in financial services. From mobile access and cloud-based platforms to automation, analytics and seamless integration to CRM – you can’t afford to be left in the dust.
Join us as our team of industry experts explore:
Technology trends redefining your processes and IT systems
Scalable, dynamic solutions to empower sales and marketing teams
Best practices in implementing enterprise platforms
Client success stories in asset and wealth management
La Dove Associates -- CRM/Customer Care Consulting Overview LaDove Associates
The deck represents a sample of work product from a selection of projects. Of course the real value of our consulting services are the decisions we help to inform.
Soln deck business operations support services_finalAdobe
Dynamically scale business operations to accommodate growth, change management and complexity with Business Operations Support as a Service (BOSS). The result is reduced cost and fewer resources required.
Flexible Cloud-Based Application Management
For today's companies, scaling operational skills and resources in line with business expansion is a constant challenge. The Cloud can offer greater application flexibility, but traditional application management models focus on stability, fixed capacity and service-level agreements, all of which are not conducive to cloud-based environments. In addition, operational support structures are commonly static and not designed for accelerated response times and dynamic changes.
A cloud-based support environment can help your company change and innovate quickly to meet your business needs.
[Webinar Slides] Put an End to Manual Data Processing AIIM International
Learn how document process automation can improve processing speeds, reduce data entry errors, and ultimately lead to growth.
For more information on Business Process Management (BPM), visit our resource center: http://www.aiim.org/Resource-Centers/Business-Process-Management
Implementing Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer Managed Services So...accenture
The financial services industry is experiencing increased scrutiny, prompting institutions to rapidly evolve their AML and KYC programs. Many firms are struggling to expand their operations accordingly, and addressing these issues calls for new approaches, including adapting a managed services model for AML and KYC functions. This presentation also covers how robotic process automation (RPA) opportunities for AML/KYC functions. For more on a managed services approach on AML and KYC, visit: http://bit.ly/2czFJ1U
Creating IT Value-A Better Way to Make IT Investment DecisionsScottMadden, Inc.
All IT organizations are resource constrained—demand exceeds supply. Organizations need criteria to decide which projects warrant allocation of high-value constrained resources. This is the second in a series on maximizing IT investment value.
Given the myriad challenges faced by the industry today, natural gas local distribution companies can benefit from assessing business performance through benchmarking to help identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities. ScottMadden has a low-cost approach to providing this information to its clients, as described in our Natural Gas Benchmarking document. The objective of this review is to provide high-level financial and operating comparisons that will help company management identify potential opportunities for improvement.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
Given the myriad challenges faced by the industry today, natural gas local distribution companies can benefit from assessing business performance through benchmarking to help identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities. ScottMadden has a low-cost approach to providing this information to its clients, as described in our Natural Gas Benchmarking document. The objective of this review is to provide high-level financial and operating comparisons that will help company management identify potential opportunities for improvement.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
With ever increasing performance pressures on fossil units, operators will be required to do more with less. In the face of these challenges and myriad others, benchmarking is a critically important tool. This report outlines ScottMadden’s approach to fossil fleet benchmarking, which provides operators with the analytics needed to succeed.
Overcoming the Challenges of Large Capital Programs/ProjectsScottMadden, Inc.
Effective capital program/project delivery is a critical competency for any electric utility to achieve high performance. However, project scope creep, schedule delays, and cost increases have become the rule rather than the exception. Over the past 10 years, the electric utility industry has seen large demands on its projects and construction management organizations to ensure compliance with a number of concerns. Large capital programs/projects come with a variety of complicated planning, implementation, and workforce/vendor management challenges. Using EPU projects as an example, we will provide you with ways to overcome these challenges for any large capital program/project. This article can help you successfully plan, deliver, and control/monitor your large capital program/project.
ScottMadden HR Shared Services Benchmarking Study Highlights 2019ScottMadden, Inc.
ScottMadden has joined forces with American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), a benchmarking and best practices research organization, to conduct the sixth cycle of the HR Shared Services (HRSS) Benchmarking Study. This study identifies gaps in HR SS benchmarking data specific to service center and center of expertise (CoE) staffing and performance metrics, targeting HRSS organizations with a service center and CoEs. For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
With ever increasing performance pressures on fossil units, operators will be required to do more with less. In the face of these challenges and myriad others, benchmarking is a critically important tool. This report outlines ScottMadden’s approach to fossil fleet benchmarking, which provides operators with the analytics needed to succeed.
ScottMadden Finance Shared Services Benchmark Highlights 2020ScottMadden, Inc.
ScottMadden has joined forces with American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), a benchmarking and best practices research organization, to conduct the fifth cycle of the Finance Shared Services Benchmarking Study. This study covers both trends and benchmarks, and is focused on the shared services delivery model. Topics covered include the delivery model, staffing and performance, technology, and scope of services. For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
The ScottMadden Energy Industry Update Webcast: Everything Counts ... In Larg...ScottMadden, Inc.
This webcast is based on ScottMadden’s Fall 2019 Energy Industry Update, a semi-annual publication featuring inside views of recent significant events, emerging trends, and original analysis. This webcast provides a great opportunity to take a step back and consider what is happening, what it means, and where our industry is headed.
During this webcast replay, ScottMadden’s energy experts share their views and field questions related to the potential loss of carbon-free generation and its implications, the growing belly of the duck curve, and opportunities for the Western Energy Imbalance Market.
To learn more, visit www.scottmadden.com.
ScottMadden's Energy Industry Update for the 2019 Utility Supply Chain Confer...ScottMadden, Inc.
As economic growth continues, and policies are increasingly driven by state and regional issues, utilities are placing bets, with large investments, on various growth strategies. They continue to face opposition and challenges from various stakeholders with disparate interests. Energy and utility companies will try to thread the needle of developing and upgrading much needed infrastructure, while satisfying those interests.
During the 2019 Utility Supply Chain Conference, Cristin Lyons reviewed the latest Energy Industry Update and shared key highlights for topics including:
- Electrification: A summary of increased electrification activities (ie: transportation/space heating) being promoted by electric industry stakeholders, and electrification’s pros and cons
- Wholesale energy infrastructure development: A discussion of proposed gas and power transmission projects, potential regulatory changes, and surrounding issues/implications
- Grid modernization: Noteworthy efforts around the nation, including both the programs and the common themes.
Learn more at www.scottmadden.com.
Energy Industry Update Webcast: Don't Stop Believin'ScottMadden, Inc.
To coincide with the release of the latest Energy Industry Update, ScottMadden joined forces with Energy Central to present an interactive webinar, “ScottMadden’s Energy Industry Update: Don’t Stop Believin’.” During this session, our industry experts shared their views and fielded questions related to grid modernization efforts around the nation, evolving federal policy toward wholesale energy infrastructure development, and opportunities for and possible trade-offs with increased electrification.
Combined cycle plants may have fewer moving parts than coal plants, but that does not mean that their operations are any easier to analyze. Relatively limited operating experience and sparse data allow beliefs to take root—some well-founded and others less so. This report takes a quick look at three such beliefs and offers some tantalizing, although preliminary, observations on these questions:
Do higher capacity factors really result in lower non-fuel costs?
Do older units that start more frequently have higher non-fuel costs?
Do merchant operators do a better job of cost containment compared to rate base operators?
Technology is a key enabler for achieving the synergies and savings associated with a shared services delivery model and are important tools for running an HR service center. This is the second session in an HR Shared Services learning series that ScottMadden presented in conjunction with SSON. In this session, we reviewed a range of HR technologies to consider as you plan your shared services operation. We discuss the key functions of different types of technologies, important requirements and tips for evaluating different solutions, and guidelines for estimating technology costs.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
California’s Combined Cycle Costs in the Age of the Duck CurveScottMadden, Inc.
During the 69th Annual AREGC Conference, Quentin Watkins, manager at ScottMadden, discussed regional considerations of renewable penetration impacts on combined cycle non-fuel O&M costs. This presentation reviews California's combined cycle costs in the age of the duck curve. To learn more, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
Over the last ten years, the U.S. nuclear industry has seen large demands on its capital project/major modification organizations with the mandate to ensure compliance for a number of concerns. As the nuclear fleet continues to age, projects like these will continue to surface, representing large capital exposure for nuclear power plants. For that reason, successful execution of capital projects has never been more important. ScottMadden believes it is critical to ensure the capital projects organization and its projects are structured and organized with clear roles and responsibilities, disciplined in the execution of policies and procedures, and systematic about informing senior leadership of the likelihood and potential costs of project risks.
Success of your capital program depends on the ability to manage a portfolio of projects well and the ability to execute each project’s required actions on time, on budget, and with quality. ScottMadden’s Capital Program Assessment examines how the capital program is implemented—from top to bottom—with a look at the PMO, a specific project selected by our client, and a review of the performance reporting and tools in place. Our approach analyzes these critical areas to provide a detailed assessment of your capital program with actionable recommendations.
This report focuses on natural gas distribution businesses and/or executives contemplating adding natural gas distribution businesses to their current business portfolio. To assist executives assessing strategic direction, we performed in-depth analyses of strategic focus, resulting return on equity (ROE), and shareholder return across the natural gas distribution companies.
Here, we review our analysis and examination of a panel of 10 natural gas distribution companies to show the relationship between strategic direction and resulting performance, both internal performance metrics and attendant shareholder return.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
Generation Trends: What are the Impacts on Transmission? ScottMadden, Inc.
Todd Williams, partner at ScottMadden, recently presented “Generation Trends – What Are the Impacts on Transmission?” at the fourth annual Transmission Summit West. This presentation focused on how natural gas prices, carbon legislation, and renewable generation sources will drive the need for transmission infrastructure investment.
The Electric Vehicle Market: Utility Perspective and Considerations for Utili...ScottMadden, Inc.
The growth of the Plug-In Electric Vehicles (PEV) is creating an opportunity for forward-thinking utilities to leverage their size and scale and deploy PEV charging infrastructure to support load growth, extend customer engagement, and grow the PEV market. This presentation is designed to help utilities who are considering the expansion of their current electric transportation program to include more PEV infrastructure and those who are considering the initial launch of their PEV program. Key program criteria and design considerations are presented to help encourage the thoughtful planning and design of a PEV infrastructure program that will help your utility capitalize on the growing PEV market.
Overcoming the Challenges of Large Capital Programs/ProjectsScottMadden, Inc.
Effective capital program/project delivery is a critical competency for any electric utility to achieve high performance. However, project scope creep, schedule delays, and cost increases have become the rule rather than the exception. Over the past 10 years, the electric utility industry has seen large demands on its projects and construction management organizations to ensure compliance with a number of concerns. Large capital programs/projects come with a variety of complicated planning, implementation, and workforce/vendor management challenges. Using EPU projects as an example, we will provide you with ways to overcome these challenges for any large capital program/project. This article can help you successfully plan, deliver, and control/monitor your large capital program/project.
ScottMadden can help you successfully plan, deliver, and control/monitor your large capital program/project. Contact us to discuss any questions you may have.
ScottMadden’s Capital Program Assessment examines how the capital program is implemented with a look at the PMO and a review of the performance reporting and tools in place.
Customer satisfaction is a critical measure of success for all shared services organizations. This is the fifth session of a HR Shared Services learning series that ScottMadden is presenting in conjunction with Shared Services and Outsourcing Network (SSON). Part five covers approaches and techniques for measuring satisfaction and we describe key dimensions of satisfaction. The presentation includes trends in customer satisfaction data from ScottMadden’s shared services customer surveys ranging from baseline surveys conducted pre-launch to on-going surveys for mature shared services organizations.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.