Business Chief USA March 2019
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BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY<br />
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sons about the benefits of staggered<br />
rollouts and pilot programs. “I learned<br />
a lot about what happens after a project<br />
goes live in a large, disparate organization<br />
such as a higher-ed institution,” he<br />
says. “If you’re afforded the opportunity<br />
to start small and rollout incrementally,<br />
that’s a good path to take.”<br />
Bolt has worked with Boise State’s<br />
current <strong>Chief</strong> Information Officer, Max<br />
Davis-Johnson, since he joined the<br />
university from Arizona State in 2010.<br />
“Max was a game changer in terms<br />
of how the university viewed technology<br />
as more of a strategic partner<br />
rather than just a cost center,” says<br />
Bolt. Davis-Johnson was responsible<br />
for implementing the university’s<br />
Roadmap series of transformational<br />
projects across campus. Excitedly,<br />
Bolt says, “As a result of that, we got<br />
a data warehouse off the ground, and<br />
we implemented our first student and<br />
faculty portal.” Then, he explains,<br />
the IT department used these large<br />
projects as a base on which to build<br />
up its governance structure.<br />
With either large-scale projects or<br />
gradual transformation of IT governance<br />
strategies, Bolt reasserts the<br />
MARCH <strong>2019</strong>
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