Management Information Systems

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Management Information Systems

• In UK Higher Education

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Margaret Taylor

• MIS Director University of Oxford

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Did I say MIS?

• Management Services
• AISU
• MAISU
• MIS

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MIS the role

• To provide Administrative and Management Systems
  to the University
• To provide technical services to central
  administration

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Evolution?

• Pre MAC initiative up to 1988
• MAC Initiative 1988-circa 1998
• Post MAC run up to Y2k
• The 21st century

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Pre MAC

• Individual strategies
• General cooperation
• Huge variance in cover

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Mac Initiative

• Families formed round technology
• General wait for family to deliver
• Was there a 100 solution?

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Post Mac

• Drivers
• abolition of the binary line?
• HESA
• Year 2000 problems
• Need to re-address systems
• Some radical approaches

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After effects of MAC?

• has the market for specialist HE systems been
  depressed by MAC?
• Disillusionment on the part of the customers?
• The major players re-enter the market
• their specialist systems are immature

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21st Century

• Outsourcing
• ERP
• Best of Breed
• Data Warehouse

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Trends

• from
• operational
• (central service)
• bespoke
• client /server
• (even character)

• to
• relationship
• distributed
• self service
• package
• 80/20 rule
• web interface

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Oxford now

• Prophecy
• Open door
• In house central student systems(s)
• Small scale PC systems (Admit, Resolve)

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Oxford futures

• OSIRIS
• Must be forward thinking
• Research projects
• pre and post contract?
• E- procurement?
• work flow
• Highly devolved
• Web delivery?
• Business Process Review

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Oxford futures

• Student Records
• Involve all University
• departments and colleges
• Devolved data ownership
• shared single database
• Portals
• relationships with staff, students

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Oxford futures

• Open Door
• Rationalise development
• Roll out to more users
• Consider data quality

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Oxford futures

• Management Information across many systems
• Coordinated electronic document storage?
• Research submissions
• Use Intranet for communications
• as an information resource

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Requirements

• Cooperation across all sectors
• Admin, departments, colleges
• Willingness to change
• Where change is in the best interest
• Resource
• In MIS and user departments
• Funding
• Spend money to save money?

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What next

• Evolve an MIS strategy to serve the strategic
  plan
• Draw up a three to five year plan to serve the
  strategy
• In consultation with all users
• Draw up detailed project plans for the next 6-12
  months