Good afternoon – Hope you’re enjoying the last weeks of August. Below are a few items I’d like to highlight this week: On August 19th, the University Gazette published two articles about our work. The first article, “Early successes help … Read more

Good afternoon – Hope you’ve had a great week! On Monday we held the August Steering Committee meeting and shared the latest updates on the Early Impact, Travel & Expense, HR and Research Teams work. We updated the committee on … Read more

Good afternoon – This week the Early Impact, Travel & Expense, HR and Research Teams continue to make progress on the items we reported last week. While these projects all focus on different aspects of operations, they were all developed using the same structured, collaborative and … Read more

Good afternoon, Hope your month of July is going well – our team has been busy designing and piloting our current initiatives as well as rolling out the Early Impact work to the final cohort. Here are the latest workstream updates: The Travel & Expense Team continues to collect feedback on the … Read more

Good afternoon, As some of you may know, I was recently in Austin for the NACUBO 2019-20 Fellows Program, where I had the opportunity to discuss Operational Excellence and learn from the other participants. I’m very proud of the Operational Excellence work to date and want to thank everyone for your support. Please note that due to scheduling conflicts, the Steering … Read more

Good afternoon,     Hope everyone has had a great July so far! We set a July 8th internal deadline to launch pilots and start user testing. Thanks to the hard work of our design teams we’ve been able to meet this goal. More specifically:  The Travel & Expense Team launched … Read more

Good afternoon,    This week our team has been busy preparing for the launch of the Wave 1 pilots for Travel & Expense Team, HR Team and Research Team. All three pilots will kick-off the week of July 8th. More specifically:   The Travel & … Read more

Good afternoon,   Hope you’ve had a great week so far! The Operational Excellence team continues to focus on the three Wave 1 initiatives. More specifically:  The Travel & Expense Team continued developing resources for the new travel site. They also discussed a plan for … Read more

Good afternoon, Hope your week is going well! Here’s a quick look at what the Operational Excellence team focused on this week:  The Travel & Expense Team completed the first version of a Quick Reference Guide, Travel Checklist, and Booking Guide. They also discussed … Read more

Good afternoon! This has been a busy week in Operational Excellence. The Steering Committee met yesterday and we had a robust discussion centered around research administration. Thank you for those of you that participated – your input is invaluable. Below … Read more