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Agenda

CSG Workshop and Meeting
Columbia University
23-25 May 2007


Wednesday 23 May 2007

**Shuttle bus service to Alfred Lerner Hall
**Bus leaves at 7:30 & 8:00
**Bus departs from hotel lobby

CSG Workshops
**Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall
**Follow curbside and lobby signs to CSG Registration


8:00    Continental Breakfast

8:30    CSG Short Workshop:  Enterprise Architecture and SOA
        Coordinators:  Bob Morgan, Wilson D'Souza, Jim Phelps, Mark Poepping, Bruce Vincent
        Please see Addendum A for the detailed agenda.

10:30   Break

12:30   Lunch
**Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall

1:30    CSG Short Workshop:  Metrics and Activity Based Costing & Measuring the value of IT to the Institution
        Coordinators:  Brad Wheeler, Dennis Maloney, Bernie Gulachek
        Please see Addendum B for the detailed agenda.

3:00    Break

5:00    Adjourn

**Shuttle bus service to hotel
**Buses leave at 5:15 sharp
**Buses arrive at hotel at 5:45

Group Dinner - Dinner Cruise
Spirit of New York, Pier 62, Chelsea Piers, 23rd St and the Hudson River

6:00 sharp     Buses leave hotel for dock
7:00           Cocktails (on ship, dockside)
7:30 sharp     Ship departs
8:00           Dinner
10:30          Ship arrives
10:30          Buses leave dock for hotel


Thursday 24 May 2007
CSG Workshop and CSG Meeting
**Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall

**Shuttle bus service to Alfred Lerner Hall
**Bus departs at 7:00 & 7:30
**Bus departs from hotel lobby
**Follow curbside and lobby signs to CSG Registration


7:30    Continental Breakfast

8:00    CSG Short Workshop:  Modern Help Center (Knowledgebase Technologies, etc.)
        Coordinators:  Carrie Regenstein, Susan Grajek, Ken Fauerbach, Oren Sreebny, Steven Sather, someone from Duke, et alia
        Please see Addendum C for the detailed agenda.

10:00   Break

12:00   Lunch
**Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall

** Columbia Campus walking tour.  The tour will start from the Visitor's
** Center on the 2nd floor of Low Library (the domed building with columns
** across campus from Lerner Hall) at 12:30 PM and will take 45 minutes.


CSG Meeting
**Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall

1:30    I. Introductory Remarks (CSG Coordinator)


1:35    II. Short Slots and Breaking News (CSG Coordinator)

        TBD

2:00    III. Policy Discussion 1:  Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
        Coordinators:  Bill Clebsch, Donna Tatro, Sunny Donenfeld

3:00    Break


3:30    IV. Timely Topics and Gossip (Eadie)

        The following topics will be covered:

        TBD

        Others as time and interest allow.

        Please send other Topics to Gavin


5:30    Adjourn


Group Dinner - Faculty House
6:00           Cocktails
7:00           Dinner
8:30           Buses leave Lerner Hall for hotel


Friday 25 May 2007
CSG Meeting (continued)
**Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall

**Shuttle bus service to alfred lerner Hall
**Bus departs at 7:00 & 7:30
**Bus departs from hotel lobby
**Follow curbside and lobby signs to CSG Registration


7:30    Continental Breakfast


8:00    V. Organizational Issues (CSG Coordinator)

        A. Steering/Membership Committee Issues (Jackson)

        B. Treasurer's Report (Duwe)

	C. CSG Secretariat Renewal (Eadie)

        D. Logistics for Fall 2007 Meeting (Antonelli)
        (MIT, 26-28 September 2007)

        E. Venues and Dates for Future CSG Meetings (Antonelli)
        Please see Addendum D for the current list.


8:15    VI. Session Proposals for Fall 2007 Meeting (Sreebny)

9:00    Break

9:30    VII. Policy Discussion 2:  IdM (expecially life cycle issues, relationships to roles and relationships off campus)
        Coordinators:  Chuck Powell, Ron Kraemer, Charlie Leonhardt

10:30   VIII. Policy Discussion 3:  Campus Emergency Experiences & Preparedness
        Coordinators:  Joel Smith

11:30   Adjourn


11:30   Lunch (box lunches available at 10:30)
**Outside Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall

**Shuttle bus service to hotel
**Bus departs at 11:45 & 12:45


Addendum A:  CSG Short Workshop:  Enterprise Architecture and SOA
             Detailed Agenda

8:30 - 9:30     Report out of the ITANA Meeting
     Bruce V -     Short Presentations re: Architecture in your institution
     Jim P -       Architecture Panel discussion
     Mark P -      Mapping Arch to Action

9:30 - 10:30    CSG discussion of Architecture and next steps for ITANA
                including what CSG members would like to see

Break

11:00 - 11:30   Paul H - SOA panel discussion
11:30 - 12:15   CSG discussion about SOA
12:15 - 12:30   CSG next steps in SOA


Addendum B:  CSG Short Workshop:  Metrics and Activity Based Costing & Measuring the value of IT to the Institution
             Detailed Agenda

1:30    Start
        . Set the stage
        . Indiana: Metrics & Activity based costing, overview and
          insight into current practice
        . Minnesota: Strategic Planning  Alignments and
          Measurements, developing strategic perspective
 
3:00    Break
 
3:30    Exercises - 2/3 people per group
 
        . ABC Exercises using actual data
            - Establishing the cost of an activity
            - Making decisions based on ABC information
        . UM exercise using "Pipe-Line" approach to align IT
          projects and services to Institutional Strategies.
 
4:45    Recap of "brilliant thoughts" from discussions and take-aways
 

Addendum C:  CSG Short Workshop:  Modern Help Center (Knowledgebase Technologies, etc.)
             Detailed Agenda

1)  Intro
2)  Report out of Help Center survey results
3)  Tools matrix: a SWOT framework for contemporary tools

BREAK

4)  Survey follow-up: Staffing issues
5)  Metrics: What do we want to know and what do we measure? and Benchmarks: exploration of a common frame of reference
6)  Wrap-up

Coordinators:
Carrie Regenstein, Susan Alexander, and Karen Van Dusen (Carnegie Mellon);
Susan Grajek (Yale); Kan Fauerbach (NYU); Oren Sreebny & Tammy Stockton (U.Washington);
Steven Sather & Leila Shahbender (Princeton); Cathy OBryan (UW-Madison); Debbie Deyulia (Duke)


Addendum D:  Venues and Dates for Future CSG Meetings

Fall   2007 (MIT, 26-28 September 2007)
Winter 2008 (Virginia Tech, 9-11 January 2008)
Spring 2008 (University of Michigan, 14-16 May 2008)
Fall   2008 (Cornell University, 24-26 September 2008)
Winter 2009 (University of Colorado, Boulder, 7-9 January 2009)
Spring 2009 (Indiana University, 13-15 May 2009)
Fall   2009 (New York University, 23-25 September 2009)
Winter 2010 Available! (6-8 January 2010)