LSCR strategic planning retreat scheduled for 7/18/07
LSCR has been involved in a strategic planning process for over a year now. We’ve done a lot of work on developing a clear mission and vision for the organization and for computing in L&S in general. We got good information from the L&S computing survey which many of you answered earlier this year, and we have been conducting follow-up interviews with individuals. The CIO’s office is also helping out by conducting an external consulting review of our current operations.
On Wednesday, 7/18, LSCR will be participating in an off-site retreat (at the Headlands Institute in Marin) to synthesize some of the information we have gathered. Our focus will be to come up with some specific action plans and strategic goals which will guide the next phases of the process. We expect that in calendar 2008, we will have some concrete proposals to improve computing in L&S.
The retreat will require the participation of our entire staff, so we will be operating with a skeleton crew on 7/18. We will have someone watching our queues and able to contact us by cell phone if necessary, but we’d like to ask you to limit your requests on Wednesday to obviously urgent calls, or indicate whether the call can be deferred until we’re back at full staff on Thursday.
Thank you for your patience as we try to find ways to better meet the needs of our customers and the college.
Though I just retired and am therefore not in the community you are addressing, I would like to take advantage of this easy opportunity to register an opinion about the work of the Tilden group. They are wonderful. Totally wonderful. In my work at UCB, from July 1964 to July 2007, I’ve seen most administrative units become less and less functional, and less and less easy to deal with. An important exception to this very disturbing truth is the Tilden group. The concept of providing help quickly and in a friendly, non-insulting fashion – is so important and so simple an idea — how has it survived in this gigantic system, where things mostly get worse, not better? I also want to say that the individuals in the Tilden group are terrific – quick, pleasant, amusing, kind, patient. And on and on.
– Judy Shattuck
an aging, often confused clerical worker, recently of the Dept
of Near Eastern Studies
Comment by Judy Shattuck — July 16, 2007 @ 8:59 pm