Evolving UW-IT

From the essential to the transformational

Kelli & Terry

31 March 2011

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New Needs, New Roles

Uncertainty → Opportunity

How do we load the dice?

4 Paths to Irrelevance

• Not cheap enough

• Not fast enough

• Not good enough

• Missed the Next Big Thing

Reality Triangle Evolution

Good

Cheap

Fast

4 Key Driversbesides budgets

• Mobility

• Cloud computing

• Consumerization

• Self-service

2 Step Program

1. Redefine what is essential

2. Do the essential more efficiently

→ In order to free resources for the transformational

Essential

Transformational

Individual Effectiveness

InstitutionalEfficiency

Expectations

Peter Drucker1909 - 2005

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

"If we were not in this already, would we now go into it?"

And if the answer is "no," the next question should be: "How do we get out and how fast?"

Transformative Technology

• What are some examples?

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Challenging Our Assumptions

• What are some examples?

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“It is not the strongest of the species that survived, nor the most intelligent,

but the one more

responsive to change.”

--Charles Darwin