News and Information about the University of Oregon's Transform IT Program
Jessie Minton, vice provost for information services and chief information officer, will lead the next Transform IT Town Hall.
Event details:
During this event, Jessie Minton will present the Campus Engagement Report (PDF), provide a recap of the recent Transform IT retreat, and discuss next steps for the program.
Program staff have revised the Campus Engagement Report to draft version 2.
The report, which remains in draft form, received two significant updates since the previous version:
The Campus Engagement Report, along with other documents related to the program, are available on the Documents tab of this site.
At a two-day Transform IT retreat held by Jessie Minton, chief information officer, the group of 50 attendees generated excellent discussion and deliverables.
The early October retreat was attended by faculty, staff, administrators, students, and IT staff.
On Monday, October 1, workshop attendees reviewed the university’s values, mission, and goals, developed a set of values to guide future Transform IT projects, discussed those values and how they fit with university values and goals, and then incorporated those conversations into the development of principles for Transform IT.
The same afternoon, the first draft of the Campus Engagement report was released. The report, which details the results of the Campus Engagement project’s service inventory efforts, was incorporated into the activities for the retreat’s second day.
On Tuesday, October 2, attendees discussed the advantages and disadvantages of structuring specific services as enterprise (e.g. campus-wide), hybrid, or specialized (offered only at the department level). During these discussions, project staff collected the key points discussed at each of the tables and will synthesize those key points into a summary.
The principles, values, and table discussions will be summarized and presented to the Transform IT Steering Committee (See Steering and Service Transition Committees to Guide Upcoming Projects for more information.) At this meeting in November 2018, the Transform IT Steering Committee will receive recommendations on re-envisioning up to four services: desktop support and helpdesk, storage and backups, website hosting, design, and development, and business applications.
The next Town Hall on Transform IT will be on Wednesday, November 14 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM in the Knight Library Browsing Room. A video link to UO Portland will also be available.
Everyone affiliated with the University of Oregon—students, faculty, and staff—are welcome! Town Halls for Transform IT are held quarterly.
The first public draft of its report was released on Monday, October 1. To read the document, see Campus Engagement Report (PDF).
The report details IT service delivery and usage for the University of Oregon. It was developed from information gathered from prior consulting engagements and newly-conducted research by the Campus Engagement project teams. The Campus Engagement project is the first in a series that are part of Transform IT. It began in February 2018 and concluded in early September.
Staff completed the first draft of the Campus Engagement project report shortly after Labor Day. Since then, they have been editing and revising that report.
To prepare for the next phase of Transform IT, Jessie Minton, chief information officer, will lead a Transform IT retreat in early October. During the two-day retreat, invited faculty, staff, students, and IT staff will discuss definitions, values, and principles. For example, the university will need to more clearly determine which services are used campus-wide (“enterprise” in technology terms), so the group will discuss the definition and differences between enterprise services and unique services. Retreat attendees will also discuss the principles and values that should guide the evaluation and potential restructuring of technology services.
The details discussed at the Transform IT retreat will be passed on to the Transform IT Steering Committee. See Steering and Service Transition Committees to Guide Upcoming Projects for more on plans for program governance.
Invitations for the Transform IT retreat in early October will go out during the week of September 17.
Campus Engagement project staff are completing one two of four outstanding meetings this week, and we anticipate that the other three two meetings will be held by September 14.
This project will produce a report on the university’s IT services. Over the last several weeks, the team has also been doing preliminary design and analysis work on that report.