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    • RISE: Athabasca University's Digital Transformation
    • About RISE
    • Goals and Objectives
      • Goals and Objectives
      • Goal 1: Digital Strategy
      • Goal 2: Digital Experience
      • Goal 3: Data Collection
      • Goal 4: IDEA Model
      • Goal 5: Governance
      • Goal 6: Partnerships
      • Goal 7: Digital Learning Products
      • Goal 8: Continuous Improvement
      • Goal 9: Access to Digital Learning

Goal 5: Governance

Remove artificial distinction between enterprise and divisional systems and evolve IT governance to university-wide Digital Governance, creating collaboration, fiscal accountability, transparency and flexibility to innovate for all university digital needs.

Objectives

5.1

Develop and maintain road maps for all university digital services, including current shadow IT systems or processes, to inform investment planning with the aim of keeping each service up-to-date with the current stable version.

5.2

Develop evidence-based business cases to assess the viability of modernizing identified existing digital services to the current stable version (n-1), or acquiring new digital services, to fully understand potential impacts and risks.

5.3

Engage owners of current divisional systems not historically supported by IT to identify go-forward plans for system integration, retirement or replacement.

5.4

Implement an Embedded Resources Model so that technical talent can remain in their specific academic and administrative units while benefiting from functional expertise management of experienced IT leaders, shared technical processes and operations, being part of a larger team working together to implement Athabasca University’s Digital Transformation.

5.5

Embed prioritization across digital systems implementations, enhancements and upgrades for regular review and voting within the expanded digital governance model.

Updated September 25, 2020 by Digital & Web Operations, University Relations (web_services@athabascau.ca)

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