 This CIO Minute is sponsored by Tegile Systems. One of the things that I've been thinking about a lot of late is what drives the investment in technology by any enterprise, let alone universities. And I think there's at least four things that drive why someone, why an organization would invest in technology. We want to improve the value proposition for those that we intend to serve. Whether for a university that could be students, it could be funding agencies, it could be faculty, it could be parents, it could be whatever. We want to improve the way we do work, whether it's how we buy products and services or how we onboard a new faculty member or how we register students for a class. So we want to improve how we do work. We want to improve decision making. That's a third reason that we might invest in technology. Providing better data, more timely data, more relevant data to the decision at hand. Or we want to communicate and collaborate better. Those four things, as near as I can tell, are the reasons we would invest in technology. I think one of the mistakes we make as CIOs is we spend too much time in the technology and not in what drives it. My experience is the more time I spend there, the greater the likelihood I can have an impact on the organization. The more time I spend in technology, the less impact I have in those drivers and the less value I bring to the organization. This CIO Minute is sponsored by Tejial, providing flash-driven enterprise storage arrays for virtualization, file services, and database applications. Visit www.tejial.com. That's T-E-G-I-L-E.