Quite an interesting opening talk from David Rhind, VC at City University. He makes a very strong case for how IS\/IT support the business of the university. Although he is clear that the University Business has to drive the issues, IS\/IT is key to delivery.<\/p>\n
One interesting quote is that Universities don’t need a Directory of IT, but a Chief Information Officer at the highest level of management. This is a really interesting emphasis on how the expertise of IT can be harnessed for the University.<\/p>\n
However, the message that I take away from this is how we need to embed IT into the rest of the business – this is echoed to me in David Eastwood’s talk (see next posting) when he talks about business processes not modernising at the rate of IT systems.<\/p>\n
What is key here is how we get IT embedded into the whole operation of the university – and for me there is a real question of how much we need to get away from the idea of having specialist knowledge gathered into a single ‘IT services’ – thoughts on this are pretty vague to me at the moment, but questions like whether a ‘web team’ should sit under IT or marketing are quite common. Some institutions have merged student support with library and\/or IT support – perhaps we need to look at some of these models and consider how we can take the best of these models at RHUL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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