Collaboration across UC is more and more essential as technology changes how we approach teaching and learning. Each of our campuses faces similar challenges when it comes to delivering the right technology. By discussing these challenges we can share ideas…
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A strategy to drive more synergy in IT across UC is to engage in more shared services. Initiatives like UCPath certainly will do that, but large programs are complicated and take several years to deploy. Grassroots efforts, meaning campus-led IT…
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I’ve been blessed with many opportunities to learn from great leaders throughout my career. In some cases, I simply had the chance to work for very effective leaders and see them in action. At other times, I participated in development…
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February 17, 2015 All Articles 3
A group of us met recently at UCD for the UC Shared Services Innovation Colloquium. A grand title for a simple concept – to explore what makes shared services really work at UC. Some of our most ardent shared services…
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January 30, 2015 All Articles 0
Check out the video of my recent interview with Vice President Pamela Brown – Institutional Research and Academic Planning – about the new UC Information Center. She and her team, in partnership with IT, are creating a fascinating, online…
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December 18, 2014 All Articles 1
I’ve spoken a lot about shared services and greater cross-location collaboration since joining the University last year. UCPath, the common payroll/HR system, will represent our most aggressive step toward shared IT services the UC has ever undertaken. Significant progress has…
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August 29, 2014 All Articles 0
August 29, 2014 Lawrence Livermore National Lab I accompanied Bill Tucker, interim vice president for research, to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to discuss how we can strengthen UC’s working relationship with the lab. Bill was focused on their…
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August 28, 2014 All Articles 0
August 28, 2014 San Francisco I attended the Nexenta OpenSDx Summit in San Francisco where President Napolitano was a featured speaker. She emphasized the importance of basic research and higher education’s significant contributions to basic research. She also talked…
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August 5, 2014 UCSF I attended the annual UC Computing Services Conference held this year at UCSF, August 4-5, and also had the pleasure of presenting the UC IT Leadership Council’s Sautter Awards for Innovation in Information Technology. Be…
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Team: I’ve been asked by managers to elaborate and provide more context to my blog entry and talk about the specific approach to performance management. I am a strong proponent of performance management that is fair but, at the…
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