Wednesday 19 March
Institutional abstracts 14:15 - 15:15
How to set up your Student Information System Implementation Project on the right footing: Lessons from an ongoing project
Kristiane Kronsbein, Project Director; and Jo Corbett, Assistant Director Student Systems and Projects, University of Sussex
UK Higher Education institutions face significant challenges when implementing Student Information Systems (SIS) due to regulatory requirements, changing policy, complex organisational structures and governance, and longstanding processes. The University of Sussex is replacing its legacy student record system with Ellucian’s product suite. In this session, Jo Corbett, the project’s SRO, and Kristiane Kronsbein, Project Director, will share strategies and insights from both technical and business perspectives. Learn how they tackled this complex project and gain valuable knowledge to help ensure your SIS implementation is successful.
Advanced Cat Herding for Universities : Defining and Establishing Enterprise Architecture in HE
Neil McChrystal, Director of Technology Strategy, University of Glasgow
Enterprise Architecture is widely understood and adopted across the private sector, but why is it so alien in HE? In this presentation we'll share the journey we've been on at Glasgow, establishing Enterprise Architecture as a key component of our Technology Strategy practice.
Using the BTS practice guide to Transform your Operating Model
John Butterworth, Director OCIO, King's College London
When your "C-suite" understands the potential of BTS to transform your university and is engaged, then "Business and IT" can move forward together. With aid of AI, BT Forum has produced an engaging coffee table document (being trialed at King's) for use across the leadership of your university to prime the conversation and drive engagement. Underpinning this, the use of HERM and architectural records, is transforming service design co-creation and thinking.
