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Re: trying to find the IS Vision and Mission again
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Subject: Re: trying to find the IS Vision and Mission again
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Hah, Alicia,
You're right that the Mission and Vision statements do not pop out at you...but they are there. Right now they are in the .PDF file of the Strategic Plan under the "About IS" section of http://web.mit.edu/is/
However, wait until next week.......Kris Nyzio has already made a nice pure HTML version of the same material. And as soon as the rebudgeting exercise is complete and Dani can review it, it will go up in the same section. You bring up a good point that it the Vision and Mission must appear as the result of a search and we'll check that.
Thanks for the flame...er, rather the very appropriate concern :-)
Chers, Bob
At 06:48 PM 10/26/2000 -0400, Alicia Allen wrote:
>Hi,
>I realize that this is generally not supposed to be used as a flame list, but I figure that all the people who can and should think about this issue are on this list.
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>I would like to quote pieces of the IS Vision and Mission in some work I'm doing to find outside contractors. I would like to give them the idea that MIT and IS think very highly of ourselves and that this is a world-class place to work.
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>However, I can not find these documents on line. I've tried looking in the places that make sense: http://web.mit.edu/is/ and the link "About IS". I searched the IS web pages for "Mission" and "Vision" - I came up with one page that looked promising: http://web.mit.edu/IS/org/mission.html and I know that this page is outdated, it was put up in January of 1998.
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>I would like to be proud of IS and of our Vision and Mission, however, because I cannot find these statements, I get the impression that the IS decision makers are not proud of these statements. I also get the impression that the people who design the web pages do not feel empowered to publicize these statements. I hope that none of this is true.
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>I realize that I have brought this up before on this list, that makes it even more infuriating that I can't find these statements easily from the main IS web pages.
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>I would like to be able to point outside contractors to our pages and have the contractors immediately recognize the professional, world-class nature of our organization. I would like these people to feel that we have very high standards that they need to live up to, if they wish to work for us. We have very high standards for our network and infrastructure, but if the public face we put forward does not reflect this, it is very hard to get outside people to believe this is true.
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>And don't even get me started on why we should never have trouble recruiting staff, who wouldn't love to work at one of the world's leading technological institutes in its' IT department? Perhaps if we presented ourselves in such a manner, outside people would start to really believe that it's true.
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>Sorry for the flamage, I just really felt this needed to be said.
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>For the record, the Vision can be found at http://web.mit.edu/sextant/www/shortvision.html thanks to Mike Barker.
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>Alicia
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