Transcript Management Information Systems

Management Information
Systems
In UK Higher Education
Margaret Taylor
MIS Director University of Oxford
Did I say MIS?
Management Services
AISU
MAISU
MIS
MIS – the role
To provide Administrative and
Management Systems to the University
To provide technical services to central
administration
Evolution?
Pre MAC initiative up to 1988
MAC Initiative 1988-circa 1998
Post MAC run up to Y2k
The 21st century
Pre MAC
Individual strategies
General cooperation
Huge variance in cover
Mac Initiative
Families formed round technology
General wait for family to deliver
Was there a 100% solution?
Post Mac
Drivers
abolition of the binary line?
 HESA
 Year 2000 problems
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Need to re-address systems
Some radical approaches
After effects of MAC?
has the market for specialist HE
systems been depressed by MAC?
Disillusionment on the part of the
‘customers’?
The major players re-enter the market
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their specialist systems are immature
21st Century
Outsourcing
ERP
Best of Breed
Data Warehouse
Trends
to
from
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operational
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relationship
 distributed
 self service
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package
 80/20 rule
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web interface
(central service)
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bespoke
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client /server
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(even character)
Oxford now
Prophecy
Open door
In house central student systems(s)
Small scale PC systems (Admit, Resolve)
Oxford futures
OSIRIS
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Must be forward thinking
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Research projects
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pre and post contract?
E- procurement?
 work flow
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Highly devolved
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Web delivery?
Business Process Review
Oxford futures
Student Records
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Involve all University
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Devolved data ownership
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departments and colleges
shared single database
Portals
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relationships with staff, students
Oxford futures
Open Door
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Rationalise development
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Roll out to more users
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Consider data quality
Oxford futures
Management Information across many
systems
Coordinated electronic document
storage?
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Research submissions
Use Intranet for communications
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as an information resource
Requirements
Cooperation across all sectors
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Admin, departments, colleges
Willingness to change
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Where change is in the best interest
Resource
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In MIS and user departments
Funding
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Spend money to save money?
What next
Evolve an MIS strategy to serve the
strategic plan
Draw up a three to five year plan to
serve the strategy
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In consultation with all users
Draw up detailed project plans for the
next 6-12 months