Seminar 02A - Applying Community-Based Decision Making on Your Campus

Tuesday, October 12, 2010 | 9:30AM–1:00PM | Meeting Room 204C
Session Type: E2010
Managing IT initiatives, projects, and services in an academic environment is a complex undertaking. The ability to effectively analyze needs, build consensus, and develop strong partnerships is critical to success. This seminar will present methods for engaging a broad range of cross-campus constituencies to build consensus around IT initiatives. We will present strategies for framing the problem, identifying the community to be involved in resolving the problem, organizing the teams and sponsors of your project, engaging the community, progressing from engagement to consensus, moving from consensus to implementation, and maintaining and guiding the community as the resource matures. For each of these strategies, we will explore exercises that can be used by each participant to develop high-level plans and materials to kick off a project or initiative on their own campuses.

Presenters

  • Maggie Jesse

    Executive Director, ITS Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology, The University of Iowa

  • Boyd Knosp

    Associate Dean for Information Technology, The University of Iowa