Loyola’s enterprise Strategic Transformation Office (STO) plays a vital role in advancing the University’s strategic goals by bringing structure, expertise, and consistency to the management of our strategic project portfolio.
What We Do
We offer a range of tailored services to meet the unique needs of each project and portfolio, including:
Portfolio Governance
The STO works closely with the Capital Budget Committee to review any new project
that is proposed that requires capital dollars. Projects that do not require capital
dollars are added to the portfolio through change management procedures. The portfolio
is reviewed and approved by the Capital Budget Committee, as well as reviewing any
new proposals that come in during the mid-year cycle.
The STO also works closely with the Technology Services Advisory Committee (TSAC)
on matters of methodology and process to best meet the diverse needs of the University.
Tools and Standards Learning from the Community of Practice and guided by TSAC, the
STO puts standards and tools into place to minimize risk facing IT projects at Loyola.
IT project managers with projects in the portfolio are expected to follow these standards.
The STO develops an extensive library of Project Manager Tools and Project Investigator
Tools that will help guide a project manager to success.
Project Tracking and Reporting
The STO tracks and reports on the status and progress of projects in the portfolio using our Project Portfolio Management tool, Asana.