LEAPForward
This initiative, titled Lean Enterprise Architecture and Processes (LEAPForward), seeks to establish the next-generation administrative enterprise architecture. This project encompasses four distinct areas. These include a business process management (BPM) effort to redesign processes related to student systems, an enterprise-wide business intelligence effort, the implementation of a new student information system, and the optimization of the administrative enterprise technology architecture.
Executive Director: Matthew Helm
Status: Begins in February 2012
LEAPForward - Business Process Analysis
Project Manager: Pam Beach
Description: Systematically evaluate opportunities to streamline and/or improve student-related business processes while encouraging a holistic interaction with stakeholders
Status: Initiation – Creating Project Charter and Preliminary Scope Statement
Scheduled Delivery Date: December 2012
Mainframe Outsourcing Project
The Mainframe Outsourcing project will plan and execute the outsourcing of the University’s mainframe to a 3rd party provider. The project has created, submitted, and received responses back on an RFP. Currently, this project is in the final stages of the contract award process. Implementing the outsourcing will take several months and should be completed by mid-March, 2012.
Mainframe Outsourcing
Project Manager: Eric Hodges
Description: Designed to develop a request for proposal (RFP) to outsouce our mainframe operations, and then award and implement the best proposal.
Status: Anaysis is in progress. Modules to be tested have been identified. Logistics being Completed to ensure appropriate staff are available to test the applications at their designated times
Scheduled Delivery Date: March 2012
Mainframe Outsourcing - Application Testing
Project Manager: Dan Stanislaus
Description: Project is to track the testing mainframe applications as part of the overall outsourcing project.
Status: Anaysis is in progress. Modules to be tested have been identified. Logistics being Completed to ensure appropriate staff are available to test the applications at their designated times
Scheduled Delivery Date: March 2012
IT 3-5 Year Tactical Plan
At the September 27th State of the University Address, President Bowman described one of the efforts that he expects the Vice Presidents to accomplish in this upcoming year; planning for the effective delivery of information technology (IT) services to the University community in response to the increase in the demand for IT solutions (as evidenced in the new IT strategic plan 2011-2013) given the finite resources available.
That call for action specifies the need to focus attention on closing the gap between IT services demanded and what we are able to provide in the next 3-5 years. As you know, the new IT Strategic Plan 2011-2013 outlines a comprehensive list of Action Items to be completed during this time period and preliminary estimates of the cost for the more urgent of those Action Items show that we need to undertake a cost-benefit analysis of the IT services currently provided.
Executive Sponsors: Vice Presidents
Co-Chairs:
Andrea Ballinger, Associate Vice President for Administrative Technologies
Mark Walbert, Chief Technology Officer
Steering Team:
ISU Dean, CIO Advisor, Business Advisor, Dean Advisor, Task Force Leaders
Phase 1: Data Collection & Value Assessment
Time Frame: November – February
Task Force 1: Cost of IT Services
Project Lead: Heather Slagell
Task Force 2: Catalog of IT Services
Project Lead: Scott Christner, COB-IT
Task Force 3: Architecture of IT Services
Project Lead: Badri Rajagopalan, CAS-IT
Task Force 4: Catalog of Help/Service Desk Services
Project Lead: Carla Birckelbaw, CTSG-CIS
Task Force 5: Inventory of Vendors and Contracts
Project Lead: Eric Hodges, AT-ESS
Phase 2: Gap Analysis of the Data collected in Phase 1
Time Frame: March - May
Five task forces
Phase 3: Recommendations
Time Frame: June
Steering Team
