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University of Colorado-Boulder
IT Strategic Plan

Mission Statement:

Develop a comprehensive IT strategic plan which ensures the availability, support, effective management, and required funding for IT resources and capabilities that properly supports the Campus' core missions, special characteristics, and values.

Process Objectives:

• Understand initiatives underway and earlier planning outcomes to determine how to incorporate them into the planning activity;
• Recognize ongoing planning processes in place and determine how they can be linked to the IT strategic planning process;
• Incorporate reasonable input from faculty, staff, industry, and higher education leaders;
• Produce draft for Campus review by July 1998.

Outcome Objectives:

• Create a shared vision and set of objectives for the role and use of information technology at UCB;
• Develop an inventory of existing and proposed IT-leveraged activities and understand their consequence on the overall IT environment;
• Develop a preferred IT architecture and ongoing process to help set standards and guidelines to ensure support, connectivity, and interoperability to help guide IT buying and investment decisions;
• Define the support models and service mechanisms necessary to allow UCB to fully realize the benefits of using IT resources;
• Identify and prioritize a set of improvement initiatives for IT infrastructure and services necessary to meet the Campus' strategic goals;
• Identify the financial requirements necessary for the ongoing, sustainable investment and support of IT resources;
• Propose systemic IT funding sources necessary to maintain a robust Campus IT environment;
• Define and delineate the roles and responsibilities for the management and provision of IT functions and resources;
• Develop principles to help define which IT services should be available to users on a free or user-charged basis;
• Identify opportunities to eliminate IT support, services, and programs that are no longer deemed in the best interests of the of the Campus;
• Establish an ongoing process for evaluation and revision of the Campus IT Strategic Plan;
• The IT strategic plan should be valid for 3-4 years but provide a context for longer-term IT decision-making and investment.

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