Dear Colleagues,
I’m pleased to announce that we have officially relaunched the Business-IT Collaboration, a cross-campus initiative to harness technology solutions to streamline business processes, improve efficiencies, enhance productivity, and deliver data by leveraging local talent and applications. Now more than ever, our university needs to be focused on strategic planning in these areas.
Beginning last fall, this group, a component of the Operational Excellence at Illinois initiative, has been meeting with the goal of creating structural opportunities available for units across campus in these critical areas. A steering committee has been established composed of Vicky Gress, Greg Gulick, Deborah Stone and myself. I would like to thank these individuals for their leadership, as well as Barb Geissler and Gabe Gibson who have been coordinating the collaboration.
I believe this initiative has the ability to transform and innovate many of our current processes, and I want to sincerely thank everyone who has participated so far. If you or someone on your team would like to participate, please email bgeissle@illinois.edu or gabeg@illinois.edu.
Sincerely,
Paul N. Ellinger, PhD
Associate Chancellor & Vice Provost for Budget & Resource Planning
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign