The 5Cs

Thursday, 9 February 2012

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Education IT, Policy, Technology

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Aware of the challenges the education industry faces, Fuji Xerox’s broad approach to helping education institutions achieve Lifelong Learning Beyond Classroom, is outlined by the 5Cs to allow teachers, IT and administrators to focus on their value added work.

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The five Cs of cost-efficiency, connectivity, content, communication and corporate social responsibility, help schools improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their document-intensive process. This allows you to focus on curriculum development and student learning.

1. Cost-efficiency – efficient and effective management of admin-related activities

One of the most critical “Cs” is cost-efficiency – how schools can maximise the usage of their document and contentrelated infrastructure and activities. This is especially important to schools that are under pressure to do more with reduced budgets. Excess budget can then be better used in pedagogy-related applications to further the schools’ goals of encouraging lifelong learning. Fuji Xerox provides a range of solutions and services to reduce the total cost of ownership for the creation, management, production and output of documents.

A recent FutureGov Research report, commissioned by Fuji Xerox report showed that cost played a bigger part in the decisions for primary and secondary institutions; this is generally because they are smaller and so have to work within tighter budget constraints. The key is delivering the required functionality within these budgets.

2. Connectivity – data, print, content availability anywhere, anytime-learning beyond the classroom

By integrating our solutions with those of third party providers of servers, storage, virtualisation and network infrastructure solutions, schools can connect to the internet and intranet with reliability and speed. Social networking sites and virtual classrooms are considered to be important in how educators will teach. 55% of respondents to the FutureGov Research paper thought that social networking tools are significant developments in the way that services are delivered to students.

3. Corporate Social Responsibility – reducing carbon footprint/paper and collaboration

A proven Green Workplace methodology reduces cost, maximises productivity, improves document accessibility and more importantly, minimises environmental impact through eco-friendly products that reduce both carbon footprint and paper usage. The fact that only 5% of FutureGov Research respondents totally dismissed green benefits is encouraging and shows that education institutes are leading the way in green initiatives.

4. Communication – to parents, students, prospective students, employers

Cost-effective communication becomes extremely important to manage the massive amounts of information available through multiple channels. Fuji Xerox has solutions that personalise messaging to prospective students, as well as alumni. This raises ROI, brand recognition and alumni contributions. The report highlighted the fact that in developed Asian economies, they use print and paper based methods of communication equally. However, Singapore leads the way in adopting electronic means of communication in campuses.

5. Content – streamline processes by better managing content

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions provide strategies, methods and tools to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver content and documents. Many respondents in the report, especially those in more IT advanced countries, indicated that they have a clear document strategy. This varied greatly between whether it was a centralised or departmental strategy, but it indicates that education institutes see the benefits of better managed content.

A full copy of the FutureGov Research report ‘Green, Virtual, Social: The Future of Asian Education’ can be downloaded from www.futuregov.net/reports/education/green-virtual-social/.

Fuji Xerox will be presenting at FutureCampus Forum 2010. More details can be found at www.futuregov.net/campus