[185] in I/T Delivery
Joint Discovey/Delivery Leader's meeting N42-286 10AAM Friday 8/14
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert V. Ferrara)
Mon Aug 10 16:45:18 1998
In-Reply-To: <v0302090cb1b4631e071f@[18.177.0.229]>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:45:39 -0400
To: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>, delivery@MIT.EDU, fortoul@MIT.EDU,
tjm@MIT.EDU, brendakg@MIT.EDU, mbarker@MIT.EDU, jjv@MIT.EDU,
pbh@MIT.EDU, crockett@MIT.EDU, jlittell@MIT.EDU, eyanow@MIT.EDU,
lisanti@MIT.EDU, ninadm@MIT.EDU, wade@MIT.EDU
From: "Robert V. Ferrara" <rferrara@MIT.EDU>
Cc: khiggins@MIT.EDU
Hello,
As mentioned at previous meetings, Greg Anderson and I would like to
move more to a regular Friday "project" meeting. We'd like to begin in this
direction at the next meeting this Friday at 10AM in N42-286. The primary
focus of this meeting will be the upcoming Five Year Plan.
It will be helpful to get your Five Year Plan inputs in any form, but we
can use Jim Bruce's attached invitation to Infosys to help structure the
discussion.
This is the 8/14 agenda so far.
1. (20 minutes) Status/Announcements
* Hiring status
* Project DB update + training
* ITLT update, including purpose and meeting practices
* Project Mgmt.Institute and local SIG news
* Updating Delivery Process Map for project "decommisioning" and
package software acquisition
2. (75 Minutes) Five Year Plan Discussion
3. (20 minutes) Abbreviated Roundtable
up to 2 minutes on whatever you deem relevant, but especially mention
items like
* Milestones achieved or coming into focus
* Adjustments you want to make
* Resource Needs
4. Topics for next meetings. Updated Delivery Goals?
Thanks, Bob
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At 7:16 AM -0400 7/31/98, James D. Bruce wrote:
>I write to invite your participation in the development of the Information
>Systems Five-Year Plan for FY 2000 to 2004.
>
> "In preparing for battle
> I have always found that
> plans are useless, but
> planning is indispensable."
> -- Dwight Eisenhower
>
>Background
>----------
>
>Each year, every MIT organization submits a five-year plan accompanied by a
>budget for the coming fiscal year. The plan sets forth the organization's
>vision and strategic goals for the coming five-year period as well as its
>tactical and operational goals for the next year.
>
>In past years in response to a request from the Senior Vice President, the
>IS Directors began their planning in October with the plan due in late
>December or January. While I have not received any information on the next
>plan, I expect one to be required with a due date much the same as in the
>past.
>
>The IS plan for FY 1999 - 2003 is focused on six strategic goals:
>
> o Consistent, reliable information technology services
>
> o Partnerships with customers for solutions
>
> o Partnerships with vendors for products and services
>
> o Employees as key resources
>
> o Policies, procedures, and standards
>
> o Effective use of resources.
>
>Recent accomplishments as well as our operational goals also were focused
>around these strategies. The plan may be found at
>http://mit.edu/is/org/fy99-5year.
>
>
>The Specifics
>-------------
>
>ITLT believes that developing the five-year plan should provide each member
>of IS with an opportunity to say what you think Information Systems should
>do in the coming years. We invite each of you to participate with us in
>developing our plan for FY 2000-2004. We will provide several paths for
>this participation, including responding to questions such as the ones
>which follow in this note, providing feedback at forums, participation in
>work groups developing parts of the plan, etc.
>
>As we begin development of our plan, we need to remember that the success
>of Information Systems is directly related to how much we contribute to the
>success of the Institute in education, research, and community service.
>Within that context, I would like to ask each of you to answer two
>questions:
>
> 1. What is the purpose of Information Systems at MIT?
>
> What elements would you include in IS's purpose? What set of
> basic MIT needs does IS meet? What would be lost to MIT if IS
> did not exist?
>
> 2. What strategies -- deliberate plans to deliver value -- should IS
> pursue in its work?
>
> As an example, Southwest Airlines pursues six key strategies:
> - Frequent, reliable departures
> - Very low ticket prices
> - Limited passenger services
> - Lean, highly productive ground and gate crews
> - High aircraft utilization
> - Short-haul, point-to-point routes between midsize cities
> and secondary airports
>
>I invite all members of Information Systems to respond to these two
>questions between now and August 16. We will use your responses in
>formulating draft statements of purpose and strategy which will be
>circulated within Information Systems. You can address your response to me
>at jdb@mit.edu (jdb-anon@mit.edu if you prefer to respond anonymously) or
>itlt@mit.edu.
>
>Your participation in the planning process is important and is greatly
>appreciated. Our goal is to distribute a compliation of the responses we
>receive by the end of August, and begin work with you on the next steps.
>
>.................................................................jim
