IT Strategic Plan

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IT Strategic Plan

• May 23, 2007

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Overview

• Background
• Planning process
• Overview of the plan
• Key Points of the Strategic Plan
• Implications
• Next steps

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Background

• This activity is a follow-on to the IT Review
  and the GEF Task Force
• The scope of the plan is campus-wide IT
• All colleges and administrative units
• Includes the hospital, except for clinical IT
  systems
• Campus-wide plans are rare
• The ability to complete this plan is a unique
  strength

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Process

• Started in summer of 2006
• Led by a campus-wide core group
• Involved many advisory groups
• Used an iterative planning process
• Publish a draft plan
• Feedback received and incorporated
• New draft plan released about every month
• Several half day planning retreats held with
  Campus IT Leaders (CITL)

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Overview of the plan

• Our efforts have produced three components
• IT Strategic Plan
• Campus-wide Action Plan
• Unit specific Actions Plans

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Key Points in the IT Strategic Plan

• Vision
• The University of Iowa information technology
  community uses open, collaborative processes to
  provide IT services and technologies that add
  measurable value in fulfilling the Universitys
  teaching, research and service missions

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Key Points in the IT Strategic Plan

• Eleven Guiding Principles
• IT Decision Making
• Understanding IT Needs
• Value
• Innovation
• Integration
• Interoperability
• Security
• Infrastructure
• Central and Local Provider Balance
• Application Development

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IT Strategic Plan Goals

• Goals
• Support student success through IT systems and
  services.
• Support the evolving research needs of the
  campus.
• Secure our electronic information and IT systems.
• Increase the utilization and effectiveness of IT.
• Provide IT services that meet the campus needs in
  a coordinated and efficient manner.
• Each goal has 4-6 strategies

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Implications Community and Collaboration

• Working together collaboratively, as a community,
  is the fundamental theme
• This idea is not completely new - it continues
  along the path that has brought success
• What does this mean?
• More transparency across all IT providers
• More engagement among IT providers
• We will plan together
• We will question and challenge each others plans
• I will formalize relationships to IT providers

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Implications

• More focus on teaching and learning, research
  support, security, efficiency
• Focus administrative support on MAUI
• Build a new data center
• Develop new electronic storage services
• Develop and implement IT literacy standards

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Collegiate Implications

• What will colleges receive?
• Better planning
• More alignment
• Better understanding of IT activities on campus
• More guidance for IT providers
• Less reinventing the wheel
• Central services that are easier to leverage
• More time for high value collegiate services
• More effective use of IT
• More cost effective IT
• Improved security
• What will colleges have to do?
• Engage in the planning and implementation process
• Share information about plans and activities
• Contribute to campus solutions

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Next Steps

• Final IT Strategic Plan Mid June
• Final campus Action Plan Mid June
• Draft unit Action Plans Mid June
• Final unit Action Plans - August

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Questions?

• http//cio.uiowa.edu/strategicplan/