University IT Organizations - What Works - What Could be Better
or
If I Ran the Circus (thanks Dr. Seuss)
I - Introduction
Some Generic Higher Ed IT Organizational Concerns
or
What Are We All Struggling With Organizationally
II - Presentations
Presenters will answer a set of questions
about their Institutions that encompass the following broad areas:
- How Central IT Is Organized.
- How IT Is Organized/Supported Campus Wide.
- What Is The Committee Structure Surrounding IT.
- What Works Well with These Organizational Arrangements.
- What Doesn't Work As Well.
- How the IT Organization Could Be Different.
Presenters: (order not yet clear)
- Phil Long, Yale University
- Bill Aikman, University of Michigan
- Vijay Kumar, MIT
III. An opportunity for attendees to share their organizational
dilemmas and/or creative organizational solutions.
Specific questions the presenters will attempt to address include:
What does the central IT organization look like organizationally?
- Structure, number of people in different groups, where the org
reports.
- How are the schools and departments supported? What is the role
of the central org in that support and what are the roles of the
schools?
- What are the advisory bodies around IT (faculty, administrative,
departmental).
- Any other key committee, task-force structures.
- How are some of the key functions managed within the central
organization and campus wide (e.g., security, training)?
- How are finances managed for the central organization? Who owns
the budget, the budget process, etc?
- What works well in this organizational model at your campus?
- What could be improved?
- And - if you ran the circus - what changes would you make to the
current organizational structure?
- Throw it all up in the air and start again?
- Tinkering?
- Why would this be better? What would you expect to accomplish with
these changes?