Nominations for the inaugural TIER Excellence Awards are being accepted through April 11. We have many, many deserving candidates devoting time and energy to bring OneIT initiatives to fruition, so please consider participating in this opportunity for recognition. Recipients receive $1,000 and a commemorative gift in the categories of: Advancing TIER Implementation, Service Excellence, and Innovation and Process Improvement.
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
In a series of recent future state planning retreats, OneIT leaders have developed high-level concepts for the culture, structure, and governance of IT on campus. A draft summary of the themes is now available. These concepts will be presented, along with project updates and other successes of collaboration, at a Town Hall for IT professionals and at listening posts for the broader campus community in April.
Friday, February 19, 2016
The state universities will concentrate external device encryption efforts on administrative units that routinely deal with Level III sensitive data and recommend mitigation tools for other campus units.
Friday, February 19, 2016
The Regents are creating a Board-level IT policy for the three state universities. The high-level policy covers three areas: security, acceptable use, and technology accessibility.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Campus IT leaders made additional progress on strategic planning for OneIT at a February retreat.
Thursday, January 21, 2016
All UI employees in an IT job classification will be assigned to complete a new SANS “Securing the Human” awareness training within the next six months. A “security aware” IT workforce is key to protecting institutional data and systems, as well as personal information. The fundamental guidance this training provides will be helpful as IT staff interact with the general workforce on campus.
Thursday, January 21, 2016
OneIT Leaders kicked off the new year with a strategic planning session. Based on the success of an initial workshop in December, 30 campus IT leaders reunited for a deeper dive into discussion about future state.
Friday, January 08, 2016
Campus IT staff are invited to attend the OneIT Winter Luncheon on Monday, February 22, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge. The buffet luncheon will celebrate the new year and all of the collaboration and progress achieved in 2015.
Friday, December 18, 2015
We’re making great strides advancing the OneIT projects, which are key to achieving the goals of TIER. With the project work well underway, we have reached a point where we can start to think more strategically about future state—our long-term vision and strategic objectives, culture, structure of the organization, and how to get there. During a half-day workshop with Tippie College of Business faculty, university IT leaders began developing a unified vision for the future.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Great strides are being made in the OneIT initiatives, and it’s important to report our progress. The Board of Regents asked the CIOs of all three universities to agree upon a common set of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to measure progress in IT initiatives across all three campuses. Each university will report on: percentage of TIER activities complete, percentage of target savings achieved, and number of hours saved through efficiency efforts.
In addition to the three common metrics, each school identified a list of additional KPIs that are specific to that campus. Once finalized, the list will be shared on this website.
Since savings is one of the key elements we will be reporting, please remember to record cost savings/avoidance through the online system we have in place.