Office of the CIO

Strategic Focus AreaS

CommunicationDifferentiated ServiceOperational ExcellenceTransparency & Understanding

Transparency & Understanding4. TRANSPARENCY & UNDERSTANDING

Objectives: Provide outstanding service and university-wide insight into IT capacity, planning, and prioritization to build credibility.

Follow direction from executive leadership

"Executive leadership team needs to drive technology adoption top-down"

- Trustees

Develop formal IT governance

"We need transparency, understanding, and participation in the IT decision-making process"

- Deans

Formalize project management and progress reporting

"Project management, progress reporting and transparency into these processes could be improved, though the PMO is a step in the right direction"

- Finance

Support users consistently across campuses and schedules

"Need a problem-solving culture and customer service focus within IT, more on people and processes, less on machines"

- President’s cabinet