Thursday 20 March
Get Future-Ready: Building a Digitally Mature Workforce at Your University
Tracey Jessup, Chief Transformation and Resources Officer; and Melanie Fowler, Executive Director of Marketing and Communications, De Montfort University
Explore the importance of understanding how your people work today and what they really need, before planning for future digital transformation and how to use a digital fluency audit to baseline and then show progress. We’ll delve into DMU’s MORE Digital Champions programme which recruited colleagues from across the university and gave them the tools to help others to become more digitally confident, as a key part of our transformation strategy, driving adoption, closing the skills gap, and preparing for the future. Learn how boosting digital confidence enhances efficiency, collaboration, and delivers a better student experience through a digitally-enabled workforce.
Cultivating collaboration for strategic change using Jisc’s framework and maturity model for digital transformation
Chaired by Sarah Knight, head of learning and teaching transformation, Jisc
UK universities are facing significant disruption due to the economic crisis and limited resources, along with the lasting impact of the pandemic on staff and student wellbeing. One of the ways the sector is responding is by revisiting or in some cases, developing their digital transformation strategies. The path to successful digital transformation is not without challenges. It demands targeted investments, digitally aware leadership, robust and secure infrastructure, engaged stakeholders, uniform data practices, digitally proficient staff and students, and, perhaps most crucially, a cultural shift towards digital adoption.
Over the past year, Jisc has been collaborating with 24 UK universities and a French university, who have been adopting and adapting Jisc’s framework and maturity model for digital transformation. Universities have been self-assessing their digital maturity across academic, professional services, and IT departments to baseline their existing practice, highlight gaps in previous approaches, and to identify priorities for investment and development. In this panel session we will hear from chief information officers (CIOs) who participated in the pilot and will share what their critical success factors are for digital transformation and the importance of CIO’s in enabling collaboration to foster change.
Change your team’s behaviours to accelerate digital transformation
Simon Hill, Senior Executive Partner, Gartner
Simply talking about and defining the new behaviours your team members must acquire is necessary but insufficient to build the culture you need. Embedding those behaviours in their daily activities — that is, operationalizing them — is the most effective technique for CIOs and IT leaders to achieve it.
UCISA Dragon's Den
Chaired by Daniel Roberts, Chief Information Officer, SOAS University of London
Join us for an engaging and dynamic conference session where three IT leaders will present their visionary ideas for a collaborative investment opportunity. Each presenter will pitch a unique concept, such as developing a shared service, establishing a membership-owned company, or creating a joint solution to address gaps in the Higher Education market. These proposals will aim to drive forward meaningful collaboration within the sector.
