Loyola University Maryland
Office of the CIO

Strategic Focus AreaS

CommunicationDifferentiated ServiceOperational ExcellenceTransparency & Understanding

Operational Excellence3. OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Objectives: Recognize the realities around resource limits and budget growth in university administration and provide IT solutions to increase operational efficiencies.

Provide effective training to foster adoption

"Increase training frequency, structure, and robustness . . .  and include a knowledge sharing database and publicize existing tools"

- Academic Affairs.

Consult with users in standardized, collaborative user groups

"We want IT to act as consultant, recommending emerging technology for adoption"

- Advancement

Focus development efforts on system integration and interoperability

"The current tools must be better integrated, including the Colleague systems and orientation information"

- Student Development

Automate paper processes and enable advanced data analytics

"Everything we do generates paperwork, [we] need to map processes to electronic processes, particularly around grants and research"

- Academic Affairs