IT Transformation Committee

Background Documents - Leading to Committee Formation

• IT Transformation White Paper
• SPBAC Response and Recommendation
• President/Provost Response to White Paper

Committee Formation Documents

• Candidates for Committee
• Invitation to Committee Members from Michele Norin
• IT Transformation Committee Members as of 2-9-2009
• (Updated)  IT Transformation Committee Members as of 4-3-2009
  

Reference Materials

• Achieving Alignment Through Strategic IT Management at the University of Memphis  (Educause - ECAR)
• Alignment Based on Strategic Priorities at the University of Delaware  (Educause - ECAR)
• An Antidote for the Faculty-IT Divide (Educause)
• Best Practices for Justifying and Allocating Higher-Education Security Resources(Gartner)
• Beyond the False Dichotomy of Centralized and Decentralized IT Deployment  (Jim Davis)
• The Changing Shape of IT  (Gartner)
• Complexity, Effectiveness and Change: Challenges for the Higher Education CIO(Gartner)
• Decentralized IT Governance and Policy in Higher Education(Educause)
• Developing an Institutional Perspective on the IT Function: The Case of Cornell University  (Educause - ECAR)
• Does the CIO Have a Seat at the Table in Higher Education?  (Gartner)
• Effective Change Management in Higher Education  (Educause)
• Effective IT Organizations:  Design Matters  (Gartner)
• E-Learning for Higher Education: Are We Reaching Maturity?  (Gartner)
• Enterprise System Development in Higher Education  (Educause - ECAR)
• Envisioning a Transformed University (Issues in Science and Technology)
• Even Universities Change  (Issues in Science and Technology)
• Financial Slowdown Emphasizes Budget-Planning Effectiveness in Higher Ed (Gartner)
• Findings: Higher Education CIOs Must Reinstate the 'Chaotic Sandpit' (Gartner)
• Global Standards Can Reduce the Adverse Effects of 'Administrative Freedom' in Higher Education (Gartner)
• Growing Pains  (Universitybusiness.com)
• How Governments are Addressing the IT Consolidation Conundrum (Gartner)
• Introducing the Gartner IT Infrastructure and Operations Maturity Model(Gartner)
• IT Alignment Findings  (Educause - ECAR)
• IT Alignment in Higher Education (Educause - ECAR)
• IT Consolidation in Government (Gartner)
• IT Modernization: Best Practices for Infrastructure and Operations Leaders(Gartner)
• ITIL and Process Improvement  (Gartner)
• Lit Review  (Word doc)
• Maturity Model Overview: Application Organizations(Gartner)
• Myth of Saving Money  (Educause)
• New Role of the IT Strategist (Gartner)
• The Organization of the Organization: CIOs' Views on the Role of Central IT  (Educause)
• Peer Institutions (Word Doc)
• Process and Politics (Educause - ECAR)
• Queensland University of Technology: Three Generations of IT Governance (and Counting) (Educause - ECAR)
• Recentering the Research Computing Enterprise  (Educause)
• Recasting the Centralization-Decentralization Debate  (Educause)
• Reforming IT Governance at Berkeley: Introducing an Enterprise Perspective to a Decentralized Organization  (Educause - ECAR)
• Research Universities and Central IT Organization (Educause)
• Setting IT Priorities in Higher Education (Gartner)
• Student Laptop Ownership Requirement and Centralization of IT Services at a Large Public University  (Educause - ECAR)
• Top 10 IT Issues 2008 (Educause)
• The University in the Networked Economy and Society: Challenges and Opportunities  (Educause)
• University of Florida Information Technology Action Plan
• Using an IT Governance Structure to Achieve Alignment at the University of Cincinnati  (Educause - ECAR)

IT Service Portfolio Related Research:

• Communication re: IT service portfolio related research
• Conference Polling Reveals Top-Priority Functions Being Evaluated in Early-State IT Service Portfolio Management Implementations  (Gartner)
• Document the IT Service Portfolio Before Creating the IT Service Catalog  (Gartner)
• Know Your Services; Know Your Customers  (Gartner)
• Toolkit Decision Framework: Top 10 Evaluation Criteria for IT Service Portfolio Management Products and Vendors  (Gartner)
  

Services Subcommittee Catalog

Services Subcommittee Report

Email Attachments for 2-6-2009 Meeting

• Gil Salazar Bio
• Mark Aldenderfer bio

2-6-2009 Meeting Handouts

• UITS Strategic Plan
• UITS Draft Service Summary - Rough Draft
• CIO Organizational Chart
• Deputy CIO Organizational Chart
• Information Security Office Organizational Chart
  

Agendas

Meeting Agenda May 1, 2009

Meeting Agenda April 24, 2009

Meeting Agenda April 17, 2009

Meeting Agenda April 3, 2009

Meeting Agenda March 20, 2009

Meeting Agenda March 6, 2009 
 

Minutes

Meeting Minutes May 29th, 2009

Meeting Minutes April 17, 2009

Meeting Minutes April 3, 2009

Meeting Minutes March 20, 2009

Meeting Minutes March 6, 2009

Meeting Minutes February 6, 2009

IT Transformation Draft Documents Page

IT Transformation Final Documents Page

Subcommittees Status Reports 2-23-09
*Subcommittee Updates*

The subcommittees of the IT Transformation Committee have been meeting to discuss the following three topics:

 Services Subcommittee:  Chuck Higgins (Chair), Gil Salazar, Amy Kimme-Hea, Tim Wunz, Kurt Lindsay and Drennen Brown. 

• The subcommittee will compile a list of services provided on campus by units and UITS, and drill down to which services should/could be centralized.   

Best Practices Subcommittee:  Mark Aldenderfer (Chair), Robert MacArthur, Sylvia Johnson, Carla Stoffle, Liz Taylor.  

• This subcommittee will look at centralized and decentralized models from other universities.  Liz will contact Gartner Group to help gather data.  Carla also said that the library can provide assistance in gathering data from other universities.

UA Modeling Subcommittee:  Jeremy Frumkin (Chair), Jeff Goldberg, Cathy Munger, Nirav Merchant.

•  This committee will examine two or three individual services (such as email, wiki, shared storage, etc.), and report on various business/organizational models of deployment of such services for both central and decentralized environments.
  

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• Services Subcommittee
• Best Practices Subcommittee
• UA Service Modeling Subcommittee