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What We Are Planning - FY12 Goals Planned
FY12 goal: Investigate new models for IT service delivery and develop financial models to determine the
economic viability of obtaining IT services in new ways
In FY12, OIT plans to investigate new models for delivering IT services, including economic viablility. Specifically, OIT plans to:
• Evaluate new methods for managing institutional computers and software.
• In collaboration with the OIT Leadership Group, publish and promote guidelines for assessing Software as a Service
(SaaS) solutions.
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• Pilot e-mail services delivered by external service providers for students.
• Prepare financial analysis in key areas such as telecommunications / telephony. Provide costing model alternatives to
ensure OIT’s leadership can make informed decisions regarding funding and sourcing strategies to meet IT’s changing
needs.
FY12 goal: Enhance the institution’s ability to select and effectively manage IT projects that broadly
impact the University community
To help ensure that University IT projects are appropriately selected and effectively managed, OIT plans to:
• Facilitate the annual IT project planning process, resulting in a cross-University endorsed IT project slate.
• Promote the use of the Princeton Project Management Methodology to help ensure the success of University-wide IT
projects on the FY12 project slate.
• Expand and develop the Princeton community of skilled project managers and technical leads.
• Enhance Princeton’s Project Management Methodology to improve end-user involvement in projects, clarify integration
of systems testing, and integrate change management principles.
• Enhance OIT’s Interdepartmental Project Portfolio (IPP) tool and planning process through the offering of annual
“departmental project planning” sessions that help managers prepare for submitting proposals to the University IT
project portfolio.
FY12 goal: Continue to make OIT a more welcoming and diverse workplace that attracts, develops, and
retains the highest quality IT professionals
To continue to offer a welcoming and diverse workplace, OIT set the following goals for FY12:
• Develop and implement an overall staff recognition strategy.
• Develop an overall diversity strategy that makes OIT a more welcoming and inclusive organization that values and learns
from the differences diversity brings to the organization.
• Develop a compensation zoning strategy for OIT job bands to better attract and retain qualified IT professionals.
• Develop and implement an overall OIT recruitment and on-boarding strategy that meets the changing needs of IT.
• Develop a comprehensive OIT staff development strategy that addresses succession planning in key areas.
• Continue to provide for OIT’s training needs by expanding technology and soft-skill development course offerings
through an online learning curriculum, webinars, and instructor-led classroom sessions.
• Continue to enhance leadership and management training in order to continually provide for IT’s changing leadership and
management development needs.