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Executive Report from Office of the Chief Information Officer
Future of IT is bright, but it’s a long road to get there
Thanks to all of you who attended the NextGen Town Halls last month. It’s an exciting time for IT at the university. Some of the new IT Governance committees met for the first time this month to discuss our vision and some immediate decisions that we need to make.
This multi-year strategy for employing state-of-the-art technology to advance the U-M mission has several components, including:
- Creating alignment that includes instituting an IT Governance Structure
- IT rationalization and unit assessments
- Enabling units to focus on technology that differentiates their school or college
Approximately 280 faculty and staff attended NextGen Michigan town halls in February. Watch town hall recordings and read attendee feedback on the new NextGen Michigan website.
First steps: Unit Assessment Project
The university is conducting a comprehensive assessment of information technology across campus.
This effort examines how IT is currently distributed and provided at the unit and campus level.
An operational and financial inventory of each unit’s IT environment will be included in the final assessment report.
Read more about the list of units being assessed, as well as what the inventory will include.
- What are collaboration tools? Learn more about categories, components and phases
- Analysis of U-M Collaboration tools - U-M needs tools that interwine, aggregate, and integrate
Enabling units to focus on technology that differentiates their school or college
Across the university, units should be encouraged and empowered to pursue the kinds of technologies that can help them attract the very best students and faculty, as well as further their academic mission (e.g. Digital Fab Lab at Taubman College). A few examples of work in this area include: Mobile Applications, Research Computing and Data Centers.
