Strategic Plans

Tenets of Strategic Planning

Elevate the professionalism of IT Leadership and Staff

• Create opportunities for CIOs to participate in decisions that affect more broadly in scope and constituencies
• Produce white papers that speak to a broader context other than IT
• Continue workshops on relevant topics (strategic planning)
• Improve communication at all levels through quarterly reports
• Increase transparency and accountability
• Provide skill building & developmental workshops for staff – Communication, Customer Focus, Negotiation, Advocacy, etc.
• Rotational assignments within and across Campuses

Transform the UW System’s capacity to leverage academic and administrative technology-enabled services

• Create and implement deliberate processes of innovation and scaling successes and adaptability for System-wide services
• Design and implement a student-centric ecosystem (Big Data & Predictive Analytics)
• Create a blended strategy that builds on online learning and course delivery with the advantages of premise-based approaches that accentuates learning through experiential and team-based setting (Adaptive Learning, Learning & Collaboration Spaces)
• Not only deliver value to our customers and stakeholders but also change the industry of learning, teaching, research, and outreach

Change IT from a Cost Center to a Value Center

• Change how leadership thinks about investing in technologies, application systems, process, and policies
• Increase transparency and accountability in everything
• Demonstrate, deliver, and document initiatives that produce cost savings and productivity enhancements
• Create a standard IT architecture for UW System (VoIP, Security Framework, Disaster Recovery)
• Provide System-wide contracts to deliver products & services
• Create System-wide policies
• Reduce and then eliminate redundant systems and non-valued processes (Process redesign, standardization)
• Create an environment that supports interoperability among systems
• Actively pursue strategic sourcing for services (shared services, cloud services, third-party provisioners)

Substantially Increase Investment in Academic Technology

• Invest in outcome-oriented systems, measurements, and processes
• Create leading indicators on progress
• Spur innovation at the Campus as well as at the System (Innovation Fund)
• Harvest savings from administrative processes and services