Achieving institution-wide change and innovation
| Abstract |
This session will include a lively debate and provide senior managers with pragmatic examples of how two institutions have integrated their institutional strategies, resulting in change of working practices and cost savings to the benefit of the students and the institution as a whole.
Participants will be invited to a ‘Dragon’s Den’ where two competing institutions will make a pitch in front of a panel of experts (the ‘dragons’) to demonstrate the approach they have taken to achieve positive and integrated institutional strategic change using new technologies. The dragons have a fictional £1 million for investment in their own institution and will discuss and vote for the most innovative and sustainable approach to institutional strategic change. One of the dragons will be the audience, who will be asked to comment and vote on which approach they would implement in their own institution.
Background to the session:
While institutions have invested heavily in the use of ICT to support the diverse range of institutional functions in recent years, administrative and support functions have tended to be developed separately from teaching and research. This lack of join-up has led to inefficiencies through the use of localised solutions rather than a strategic institution-wide approach.
A recent JISC-funded study by consultants Duke and Jordan has identified the key drivers for institutional strategic change and explored how technological systems and solutions can be integrated to improve consistency and efficiency across the range of institutional functions, to provide for the long term sustainability and innovation needed to give institutions the competitive edge in the marketplace.
To support institutions’ move towards an integrated approach, JISC InfoNet have been working on a strategic management toolkit and under the JISC Institutional Innovation programme several examples of good practice in this area have been identified.
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| Aims and objectives |
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To share the findings of the JISC-funded Duke and Jordan study into the strategic importance of an integrated, institution-wide approach to technology within institutions and demonstrate how JISC is engaging and supporting senior managers via the work of the JISC InfoNet infoKit on ‘Strategy Planning and Implementation'
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To explore models of achieving institutional change using ICT -
To present success stories and discuss their potential as models for other institutions to adopt
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| Who should attend? |
- Pro-Vice-Chancellors with responsibility for technology
- Governors
- Chief information officers
- Heads of Information Services and IT
- Senior institutional managers
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| Approximate capacity of session |
80 |
| Speakers and Participants |
- Craig Wentworth, Development Director for Organisation and User Innovation, JISC (Session Chair)
- Steve Bailey, JISC infoNet, Senior Adviser
- Patrick Bellis, JISC infoNet
Competing institutions to pitch:
- David Morris, Director of HE Development and Professor of Business Education, Coventry University
- Hugh Davis, University of Southampton, University Director of Education (e-Learning)
Dragons:
- Heidi Fraser-Krauss, University of St Andrews and JOS Member, Director of Business Improvements
- Chris Cobb, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Roehampton University
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