Strategy 6: Develop collaborative IT Governance
Develop a collaborative, comprehensive UNM IT governance structure.
The Rationale for this Strategy
To enable IT decision-making, facilitate communications, engage IT units broadly across campuses, resulting in clear integrated direction and sound decisions. And to build coordinating structures and processes university-wide, that are deeper, more mature, and that establish formal and informal collaborative groups to manage processes, develop standards and improve communication.
Link to UNM's Mission and EVP's Areas of Strategic Focus
- The University moves forward in its academic programs, student support services, and other operations by encouraging and rewarding creativity and initiative among faculty, staff, and students.
- At the University, we value excellence in our people, in our programs, in our facilities. We have a responsibility to encourage and develop excellence among our faculty, staff and students. We are committed to be leaders.
- Integrity and ethical, professional behavior by all individuals associated with UNM are essential in order for students, faculty, staff and the public to have trust in the University.
Definition of Success
Conditions Necessary to Achieve Success
- Trust and advocacy from the highest levels of university leadership in the structures, processes and decisions.
- Participation of leaders of key IT services and other major stakeholders
- Participation of departmental IT entities.
Strategy Owner
Bill Adkins (ITS Support Services)
Strategy Implementation Team Members
Amy Wohlert (Graduate Studies GS)
Ann Swancer (ITS Campus Voice Services)
Dupuy Bateman (Housing Dining Services)
Glendon Lee Jornigan (Is-Clinical Applications)
Holly Shipp Buchanan (HS Library and Informatics Ctr)
Jane McGuire (Planning & Communication)
Jeronimo Dominguez (Provost Office Staff)
Robert A. Bailey (Psych Child Adolescent Div C A)
Strategic Initiatives
| Initiative | Description | Owner | |
| 6A | Develop collaborative IT Governance structures and processes that specify decision rights and accountability frameworks | Identify services, boundaries and decision-making for IT services.... | Holly Shipp Buchanan (HS Library and Informatics Ctr) |
| 6B | Establish and implement a communications plan between governance entitites and the wider university | Define and build a two-way communication plan that includes disseminating information, gathering input and service evaluation and engaging in dialog.... | Arthur Bernard Maccabe (Computer Science) |
| 6C | Develop and integrate IT planning across campus, empasizing the IT guiding principles | Develop and refine IT strategic planning to define and institutionalize UNM-wide IT planning processes, engaging stakeholders in development of the processes. ... | Holly Shipp Buchanan (HS Library and Informatics Ctr) |
Measures of Success
The UNM community generally knows who delivers which IT services and how IT decisions are made.
The UNM community participates in the creation of IT standards.
The UNM community recognizes the value of IT standards and increases their use and application of those standards
Instruction, research, administrative and public service entities of the university perceive that IT infrastructure, applications and customer services are working and are well integrated, whether they are delivered centrally or by distributed groups.