Innovate for Effectiveness and Sustainability
Year 1 of 3-Year Initiative
Champion: Vicki Piersall, Chief Financial Officer
Assistant Champion: Shawn Daley, Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer
Goals
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Explore opportunities for automation in operations
- Complete a high-quality process mapping and process engineering exercise for legal compliance function across the university by spring of 2025.
- Improve university legal compliance processes through automation by fall of 2025.
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Improve financial efficiencies throughout the institution
- Improved purchasing processes and systems will demonstrate annual savings of $50,000 by spring of 2026.
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Implement best practice cybersecurity measures to safeguard the mission
- Execute the planned components of the NIST framework by fall of 2025.
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Develop adjacent business models in service of the mission
- Complete a feasibility study for at least one education-adjacent business opportunity by the fall of 2024.