Friday August 2nd, 2013
UCI IT Oversight Committee Meeting
July 9, 2009
Introductions
Review Consolidation Goals
- ASM Big Ideas Workgroup Report
Brief Organization and Service Review
- AdCom, NACS, Office of Research IT, and Office of Academic Affairs Computing Services
- Remaining non-academic campus IT groups
- Consolidated IT project list
Consolidation Plan Outline
- Phase 1a: Inventorying IT functions, skill sets and resources
- Phase 1b: Initial integration; interactions with campus IT groups about joining OIT
- Phase 2: Next group of IT groups are added
General Discussion
- What are your thoughts on the role of IT at UCI and where do you see opportunity and/or need to enhance IT contributions through consolidation?
- What do you see as key challenges to successful IT consolidation? How do we address those challenges?
- How do we maintain a “local IT unit feel” as we transition to a large central IT organization?
- How do we assess the successfulness of the consolidation?
The Importance of Standards
- Desktop, laptop, smart-phone and printer hardware; desktop environment; key productivity software (calendaring, email, document management, word processing, etc.)
- What sort of process do we setup to make the right standard decisions and gain appropriate buy-in?
- What are challenges of implementing standards with only a tolerable number of exceptions?
