University IT Strategic Planning
How can Information Technology best support and accelerate the achievement of NC State's mission, vision and goals?
This site serves as a repository for the information gathering and planning being done as part of the university-wide IT Strategic Planning process. The most current entries will be at the top of the page, with links to supporting documentation, meeting notes, and membership information available from the menu on the side.
Please skip down to the first entry for an overview of the planning process.
Still Time to Provide Input
Posted May 2, 2013
The process team has been meeting with a variety of committees and organizations on campus to gather input and will soon be hosting a series of focus groups. If you have suggestions or ideas you feel should be addressed as part of the IT Strategic Planning process, we would still love to hear from you. Students can go to the Student Input page and complete the brief survey linked from there. Faculty and staff are encouraged to provide input as it relates to the campus strategic plan or more generally. Anyone in the NC State community can also send comments to itstratplan-feedback@ncsu.edu.
Gathering Student Input
Posted April 4, 2013
While we are reaching out to a number of student organizations and will include several questions on the annual ResNet/ComTech survey, we're also inviting all students to provide input by sharing their ideas on a short survey. Check out the Student Input page to launch the survey and stay up to date with IT Strategic Planning information specifically for students.
Where should IT in Higher Education be headed?
Posted March 25, 2013, Updated May 2, 2013
UPDATE: The slides from Dr. Wheeler's presentation, "Pondering the Road Ahead" are available for download.
Please join Dr. Marc Hoit and the IT Strategic Planning Process Steering Team on Monday, April 29, for a campus forum focusing on the future of IT in Higher Education. The forum will feature Dr. Brad Wheeler, Ph.D., Indiana University vice president for information technology and chief information officer.
An innovator and leader in the field of IT in higher education, Wheeler’s presentation, including a question-and-answer period, will be held from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the James B. Hunt Jr. Library Auditorium. Wheeler currently leads university-wide IT services for IU’s eight campuses, and has co-founded and led some of higher education’s most transformative software and service collaborations such as the Sakai Project for teaching and learning software, Kuali for financial and other administrative systems, the HathiTrust for digital copies of scanned books as part of the Google Book Project, and the formation of Internet2's Net+ Services. He is also a professor of information systems in IU’s Kelley School of Business.
Put this event on your calendars and plan to join us for a thought-provoking discussion.
Help Drive IT at NC State
Posted March 06, 2013 (updated March 28, 2013)
UPDATE: Slides are available from the workshop that introduce the IT Strategic Planning Process currently taking place.
In case you missed the workshops or did attend and have thought of additional ideas that should be mentioned, please share your thoughts with the process team. Also feel free to send comments to itstratplan-feedback@ncsu.edu.
Original post:
As a significant first step in determining the future of information technology (IT) at NC State, the NC State IT Strategic Planning Process Steering Team invites you to attend one of the following information- and idea-generating workshops:
- Thursday, March 21
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Walnut Room, Talley Student Center
- Wednesday, March 27
2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
College of Textiles Convocation Center (Room 2309)
In these workshops, this newly created team hopes to engage you and other NC State IT stakeholders to help ensure broad-based support for a new university-wide IT strategic plan. This plan will provide both a vision and a framework for how the university’s comprehensive IT environment can best support and accelerate achievement of its mission, vision and goals, as conveyed in The Pathway to the Future: NC State’s 2011-2020 Strategic Plan.
You will be invited to share your beliefs about the current strengths and weaknesses of the IT services provided and supported by the university. In addition, you will be able to explore ideas for focusing IT resources in the coming years.
Your input from these workshops and the work of several campus IT groups — the IT Strategic Advisory Committee (ITSAC), the Campus IT Directors (CITD), and respective IT governance subcommittees — will be the driving forces to develop a university IT strategic plan.
By early fall 2013, the process steering team hopes to share an initial draft of the IT strategic plan with all stakeholders. By late October, the team expects to have the plan completed.
To find out more about the NC State IT Strategic Planning Process and to share your ideas, please come to one of the scheduled workshops. You may also visit the University IT Strategic Planning website.
How can Information Technology best support and accelerate the achievement of NC State's mission, vision and goals?
Posted Feb. 14, 2013
The NC State IT Strategic Planning Process Steering Team has set out to help our university develop a new campus-wide IT strategic plan that will provide a vision and framework for how the university’s comprehensive IT environment can best support and accelerate achievement of the mission, vision, and goals of NC State, as conveyed in The Pathway to the Future: NC State’s 2011-2020 Strategic Plan.
While the IT Strategic Advisory Committee (ITSAC) and the Campus IT Directors (CITD), along with the respective IT governance subcommittees will be the driving forces in helping to create the plan, the process steering team hopes to engage as many campus IT stakeholders as possible to invite fresh perspectives and ensure broad-based campus support for the resulting plan.
Current plans call for an analysis to take place during Spring 2013 of the current IT environment at NC State within central IT groups as well as colleges, departments and other units beyond the central areas. The analysis will help identify strengths, deficiencies, needs and expectations for campus IT services. Simultaneously, a review will be undertaken of external influences such as technology trends and other factors that may impact how the university utilizes information technology to meet its goals in the coming years.
By early fall the process steering team hopes to share an initial draft of the IT strategic plan with campus stakeholders for review and refinement. The goal is to have the plan approved as a working document and available to campus by the end of October, 2013.
Help us come together to develop an IT strategic plan that can:
- provide a framework to set priorities
- guide IT investments
to help achieve the university's collective vision to emerge as a "preeminent technological research university."
Read the charge given to the IT Strategic Planning Process Steering Team.
Be watching for opportunities to provide input into the creation of the plan in the coming months.