1. UC and the Power of Ten: A Time for Alignment David J. Ernst CIO and Associate Vice President UC Office of the President UCLA IT Planning Board February 11, 2009

2. Overview Some Observations of UC in early 2009 Patterns of IT Adoption A Time for Leadership How and Where Can Technology Help How Executives (Should) View IT Next Steps Questions and Answers

3. Some Observations of UC in Early 2009 Economic Downturn and Budget Cuts IT Infrastructure Needs Upgrade CENIC Network Linking Campuses A Growing Appetite for Cooperation IT Seen as a Vehicle for Working Together Several Key Initiatives Have Been Identified

4. Patterns of IT Adoption UC and the CSU Because We Can vs. Because We Should Build vs. Buy Culture of “being special” Being the best users vs. the best developers of technology Avoid the “tyranny of the technologists” Distinguishing attributes should be targets of our best technology efforts

5. A Time for Leadership UCOP Under Fire for Past Several Years UCOP “Under New Management” –President, Provost, VPs Operations, Health Sciences, Research and New CIO What is the Role of OP in the UC? The OP Value Proposition Be Valued More By Our Presence Than By Our Absence

6. How and Where Can Technology Help? IT Guidance Committee Report “Building Administrative Efficiency” Report Strategic Planning Has Been Done Without Calling It That! Our Challenge is Not What to Do, But Where to Begin—Some Examples…

7. Initiatives We Need to Begin Now Shared Regional Data Centers –Consolidated Campus Data Centers –Reciprocal Disaster Recovery Sites –Mainframe Sharing –Shared Research Computing Services Pilot System wide Data Warehouse Others?

8. Initiatives We Need to Plan To Begin Human Resources Information System New Payroll System Campus Collaborative Applications –Financial Systems –Student Information Systems Others?

9. How Executives (Should) View IT Financial black hole? Essential utility? Strategic resource? Focus on IT as an enabler for institutional agenda Don’t waste a good crisis!

10. Next Steps Take Advantage of What Has Already Been Identified to Do Piggyback on New Leadership Harness the Growing Willingness to Collaborate—The New Alignment Get the Ship to Leave the Dock and Make Course Corrections While Underway A Bias Toward Action

11. UC and the Power of Ten: A Time for Alignment