Strategic Planning, Presented at ELI Meetings
Aligning the IT Plan, Budgets, Program Delivery and University Strategic Plan: How to Make It Work
| Title: | Aligning the IT Plan, Budgets, Program Delivery and University Strategic Plan: How to Make It Work (ID: NLI0428) | | Author(s): | John C. Cavanaugh (University of West Florida), Christine Pierce (University of West Florida), and Janet Pilcher (University of West Florida) | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (2004) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | Creating an IT strategic plan is (relatively) easy. Aligning it with budgets (especially in tight financial times), various approaches to academic program delivery, and the overall university strategic plan for future growth is quite another story. This session will report on how to make it happen by using existing planning processes, making processes more transparent, getting buy-in, and creating opportunities for faculty and administrators to be highly entrepreneurial. By combining some existing processes with judiciously made improvements in others, the University of West Florida was able to create and implement its first IT strategic plan, blend it with the ongoing creation of online programs, and integrate it with an aggressive strategy for expanding the geographical scope of UWF's primary service region in one year. Implementation success to date will be discussed. | | View this resource: | |
Transformation Through Collaboration
| Title: | Transformation Through Collaboration (ID: NLI0319) | | Author(s): | Jo Ann Pearson (University of North Carolina General Administration) | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (2003) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | This presentation will describe strategic planning processes and the resulting transformational outcomes at the system and campus levels. In 1999 the University of North Carolina developed an information technology strategic plan to aggressively address on all sixteen campuses the following five priority areas: teaching and learning with technology (TLT), administrative systems, services for students, e-learning, and intracampus network infrastructure. Funds were set aside for new programs that were collaborative in nature, designed to synergistically capitalize on economies of scale and serve all campuses. In addition to other actions, these new programs established the UNC TLT Collaborative, the UNC Shared Services Alliance, and the Office of Coordinated Technology Management. This presentation will report on UNC's successful strategic planning initiative including how it is serving as a roadmap and vehicle for institutional transformation in several IT areas. Strategic planning and program development have enabled East Carolina University (ECU) to transform a traditional site-based continuing studies model to an Internet-based enterprise supporting more than 20 degree/certificate programs generating approximately 100 faculty positions and a $17 million budget. The transformation was the result of a comprehensive approach built on careful analysis of internal and external factors, development of an appropriate administrative/funding model, building top-to-bottom buy in, expansion of instructional technology support services, a solid technology infrastructure, and effective promotion. | | View this resource: | |
Alignment in Planning
| Title: | Alignment in Planning (ID: NLI0223) | | Author(s): | John C. Cavanaugh (University of North Carolina at Wilmington) | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (2002) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | In March 2001, the NLII sponsored a focus session, Alignment in Planning, in Worcester, Massachusetts. The intent was to examine the ways in which institutions have been able to successfully operationalise their strategic initiatives while engaging the academic community in creating and sustaining a meaningful planning process that is transparent, continuous, thoughtfully aligned, open and shared. Based on the results of front end research at their home campuses, and through panel presentations, small group discussion and exploration of strategic and tactical examples, participants began to develop a framework describing the characteristics of an aligned planning process and evidence of success. Themes included assessing the readiness for change, the roles of decision makers and stake-holders, understanding institutional culture and climate, communication strategies, dimensions of scalability and sustainability, variations in process, project selection and assessment of progress. This session synthesizes the findings from the focus group, invites commentary from participants and explores ways in which the material could be further disseminated. | | View this resource: | |
Creating the Blended Mode University
| Title: | Creating the Blended Mode University (ID: NLI0212) | | Author(s): | John C. Cavanaugh (University of West Florida) | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (2002) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports, Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | This session provides an overview of the lessons learned from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's efforts to create and implement the "blended-mode university," a seamless and transparent partnership wedding academic affairs and information technology systems to create, manage, and support both traditional and online learning opportunities. First we will provide a brief overview of the rationale for creating the blended-mode university. The institutional context will be discussed, and the structural changes in organization and administration will be presented. The second section will provide a discussion for how strategic decisions about online learning options are made, and the interdivisional and inter-institutional processes that have been created and implemented to create the blended-mode university. The third section will describe outcomes to date. The final section will present some directions for the future. | | View this resource: | |
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