Reflection
The technology integration strategic planning project that I created during my graduate program learning experiences was a meaningful and rewarding experience.
Strategic Planning Reflection
I work in higher education and occasionally through the years due to bond elections, our district has the funds to make improvements and sometimes even adds new building to some of our campuses. One such passing of a bond election, one of our college campuses was fortunate enough to have a new science building built for the sciences including biology and chemistry. The architect who worked at the district oversaw this project, but did not consult the end users, the science faculty and science laboratory coordinators. This resulted in the chemistry laboratories being setup on the second of three floors with the biology laboratories being placed on the third floor. This now presents a safety issue because the exhaust hoods for the dangerous chemicals do not optimally and properly dissipate and filter. If the architect would have consulted the end-user of this important academic project, then he would have known that it was vital for the chemistry laboratories to always be placed on the top floor because of the ventilation and filtration systems and this is of utmost importance. The Olsen’s pitfalls that were affected in this situation were accountability, communication, decision making, ownership, and overwhelming. The architect learned a valuable and expensive lesson to consult the end-users of the areas around the district that were being overseen by this person because it resulted in him having to be accountable for that adverse safety issue that was too late to resolve once it was discovered by the educators and science lab coordinators. If this person would have included the educators, scientists, and safety lab coordinators during the initial project planning, then the decision-making for the project would have gone better. The architect had to ultimately take ownership of the huge mistake that was made under this person’s watch that still adversely affects people today.