CTSA IT needs
The work that has been on going with the Penn State CTSA effort is entering a new phase of development. The steering committee is starting to meet more regularly and a draft document describing the proposed work and scope of the eight groups has been created. As part of this effort, each group was asked to develop an IT impact/needs statement. There are some interesting trends to be gleaned from this collection of needs. I encourage everyone to read them and see how existing efforts might be oriented to help begin to solve some of the IT challenges that are facing well over a hundred faculty at Penn State.
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I haven't forgotten - just needing to get through AR season! I have some initial thoughts, but would like to articulate them/flesh them out a little more before I jack your comments section! --Karen
I took a moment to read up on this with more detail than my original skim-over. The immediate thought that popped into my head was one of your themes - to paraphrase - "...that IT at Penn State is larger than ITS, and strengthen our relationships with campuses and colleges." Perhaps I'm off-base in my thought processes here, but I see lots of opportunity for ITS to really broaden its scope and effectiveness through the CTSA effort. Specifically, the opportunity to leverage collaborative technologies (wikis, blogs, etc.) to foster the heavy-duty collaboration and communication that will need to go on (and as outlined in the IT needs section of the .pdf document). Likewise, I see an opportunity to leverage our identity management infrastructure efforts, and the current IAM effort, in addition to ITS-ITANA. Perhaps some of the IAM group's roadmapping conclusions will help to provide a good model for what the CTSA effort will need. Perhaps what CTSA needs will factor into this roadmapping. In some way, this may present a very tangiable opportunity for us - ITS - to demonstrate the far-reaching effects of its core mission and service foundation. Those services are in place, but the way in which they are leveraged and the outcomes produced from that leveraging, I feel, have the potential to really expand what we do and how we do it.