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• Matt's presentation covered his academic career which led to his current role as Enterprise Architect at Washington University.  A research interest of Matt's is higher education since he has a masters degree in the subject
  
  
• Relationships work when no process or resources are available to get to a decision
  
  
• Review of the Carnegie Classification System
  
  
• A method to understand an institution is to understand their revenue sources by looking at the public available consolidated financial statements
   
• Washington University can viewed as an Organized Anarchy which has the following characteristics
  
  
  • Loosely coupled system
  • Semiautonomous units
  • "streams" of problems looking for solutions which leads to "Garbage Can Decision Making" which is a type consensus building
  • Low interest or salience in problems
  • High inertia
  • Weak information base
  • Overload the system to many problems or solutions
  • Doctoral or R1 institution
    
    
• Other methods to understand institutional behavior
  • Following the money.  WashUR1:  645 mill UW UM 1 BB Flowing into investigators
    Looking at revenues.  Look at tuition.  small.  

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  • • Follow the money
      • R1 Schools
        • Washington University 645M Budget
        • University of Washington and University of Michigan 1 BB flowing into investigators which makes for an entrepreneurial and anarchy-like environment
          • Tuition revenue in anarchy-like institutions is small

  • Role of leaders

    • Power and Influence

      • Power in Universities-viewed negatively, comes from academic free.  collegial environment

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  • • • Six Bases of

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  • Key to successful leadership is influence not power

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  • Influence tactics

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  • • Proactive

    • Grouping Influence Tactics

    • Architects

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  • • are usually rational and that is the usual go-to method for persuasion but that may be too successful since consultation and Inspiration are more effective according to the data in presentation  
      
      

  • Garbage can decision making

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  • • Everybody brings their own problems looking for a solution

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  • • Piet

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  • • mention that his mentor at Georgetown stated whoever brings the most handouts

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  • • wins 
      
      

  • Matt mentioned that a mentor of his mentioned re-litigation in the field

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  • One method of consensus making is facilitating opposition participation which moderates a decision with zealots on one side and skeptics on the other  
    
    

  • Making change in the university is high impact and small actions

    
    

  • Focus on relationships

    • Relationships are the foundational tools to getting things done

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  • • Avenues for building a power/influence network

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  • • Connections in and out of the networks

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  • • Easily move between

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  • • networks

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  • Things that have worked for Matt

    What kinds of institutions support architecture 

    Doctoral/Ri1

    Telling/Selling

    Vanguard vs Foundational EA

    Better "Broker the Garbage Can"
    
    

    Breaking down silos and herding cats.

    Is there a more maturity model related.  Models inhering to the institution.
    
    Matt WashU examples:
    Indiviual contributer.  Radiology research.  Spending time and opposition.  Stop activities that wasted money.  Trying to overcome inertia.  having a mutual understand and concensus to saying stop.
    
    Louis King:
    What happens when the hierarchy changes...does that change the relationship.      

    
    
    

  • Strategic Relationship Building:  
    
     Be curious
    Be Genuine
    Be Transparent....asking for help
    Spend time
    Maintain Integrity
    Share information
    
    
    
    

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