Vision Statement
The author of this report has been asked to create a vision statement. The vision statement should be for a technical university. It should be no more than two sentences. The overall depth, breadth and goal of the vision should be communicated in no more than four pages. The vision statement must be characteristic of a transformational leader and it must differentiate the employee and student minds from the market. While crafting a good vision statement can be difficult in some ways, there are some common threads and trends than can and should be used.
Vision Statement
The role and goal of Acme Technical College is to inspire, teach and impart the knowledge and inspiration to create and uphold the technologies and ideals of the future. Only through innovation, strong leadership and ethical fortitude can we find the best way forward for both higher education and organizations that make use of technical solutions and this all shall be taught in a way that is superior to similar schools and avenues of learning.
Vision Statement Explained
While there are only two sentences in the vision statement above, there are a lot of moving parts and they shall be explained throughout the duration of this report. The first word that can be focused on is inspire. It is important that the students of a technical college know the importance they have when it comes to disseminating information, protecting that same information and allowing it to be used and harnessed in a way that is effective and enduring for society as a whole. The next word is teach. Technical skills are not something that anyone can just pick up a book and impart to others. Indeed, the best people to teach and extend technical skills are the ones that have "been there, done that" rather than people that have been in an academic ivory tower. Private sector firms are not the only ones that can be useful in teaching the next generation. Non-profits and public agencies, each for their own reasons, have their own knowledge that they can impart because they operate...
Regardless, technology students can be inspired and taught how to do their job well, the ethics behind the job and why things should be done a certain way. At the same time, things are meant to change, evolve and improve over time. When a new way to think and act reveals itself, it should be considered. If it makes sense to change the landscape, the change should be made. Indeed, privacy was not a huge concern for much of the existence of the United States, especially not in the technical sense. However, the emergence of the internet and how it can be wielded in invasive ways has led to the realization that privacy matters.
The second sentence seizes on the three main pillars of what the future should look like from an ethical, technological and innovation standpoint. Of course, change for change's sake is not a good thing. However, change for the right reasons is absolutely worth the price. Further, the vision statement makes clear that Acme is meant to be an elite school when it comes to all of the above. After all, how can one explain how firms like Home Depot and Target have been so viciously exploited from an information security standpoint despite the fact that they presumably had the resources to have the people, hardware and software on hand to protect the information that they had on file. It is obvious that they were going "cheap" in one or more ways. Acme and schools like it need to prepare people in a way so that they know what is necessary keep data protected. Saving money is all well and good but it cannot be at the price of safety. At the same time, it should not be at the cost of the security of the information that firms like Target, Home Depot and TJX were supposed to be protecting. However, whether it be due to incompetence or ignorance, they could not or would not do so and they paid a heavy price (Robinson, 2014).
Ethical fortitude can be a very finicky thing to define. Indeed, there has always been the idea that personal ethics can butt heads with professional ethics. At the…
