Congratulations to the McMaster IT Services Review project team who received second prize in the 2018 CAUBO Quality and Productivity (Q&P) Awards Program for its IT Services Review, a comprehensive, transparent, and collaborative review to develop recommendations to improve the institution’s culture and environment. The award recognizes McMaster’s University’s approach to the IT Services Review […]
Month: June 2018
AVP & CTO Update June 25, 2018
Good Monday morning! Hoping everyone had a great weekend. I returned from BC on Sunday. CanHEIT finished up on Thursday and then I stayed on with friends until yesterday. It was cooler but still a nice place to spend a few days. I wish I could tell you I did all sorts of great west coast […]
IT Governance: How this process supported the MyTimetable project
By Melissa Pool, University Registrar MyTimetable is an exciting tool that fills a direct and obvious need of helping undergraduate students build their timetable and then links into Mosaic to provide enrolment directly into courses. While it was soft launched in March 2018 for Spring / Summer enrolment, MyTimetable is ready for students to access […]
AVP & CTO Update June 19, 2018
Good day! I am at CanHEIT and as a result missed my usual send date for my weekly message. It is absolutely lovely here at Simon Fraser University – and the weather is great, too. There are a few of us here from Mac: Joj, Rob, Gerry, Carmalita, Paula, Sue, Doris, Richard, Ken Moyle from […]
Storytelling the future: McMaster IT Strategic Planning Community Sessions
On June 4, 6, 7 and 11 the McMaster IT Community had the opportunity to engage in the McMaster IT Strategic Planning process. The AVP and CTO convened colleagues from across campus to envision the future of IT at Mac. Groups engaged in a collaborative storytelling exercise to craft ‘Digital Moments’, capturing the potential and […]
MacDrive – McMaster’s own online cloud storage
In case you missed it, as of May 2018, all McMaster faculty and staff have access to MacDrive, the University’s own online cloud storage infrastructure to store, synchronize and share data files. Cloud storage solutions are robust and convenient. A secure, in-house cloud storage solution addresses the potential security or data protection concerns attributed to commercial cloud […]
AVP & CTO Update June 11, 2018
Good morning! Here is a quick run down of the week that has passed and the week to come: What I learned last week A substantial amount of my time last week was invested in the McMaster IT Strategic Planning sessions for the IT community. We had 4 x 2 hour sessions and they were […]
AVP & CTO Update June 4, 2018
Good morning! June … I love the way the spring/summer semester feels so long at the beginning with all its promise of productivity and activity, and then it just goes by so quickly! What I learned last week Picking up my aforementioned internal tensions between the gift of time and the fact that there never […]
McMaster IT Strategic Planning Continues
On May 31st, Gayleen Gray and the IT Strategic Plan Steering Committee regrouped to continue the McMaster IT Strategic Planning process. The planning session was once again facilitated by Meghan Kirwin, of The Kirwin Group. The session focused on refining the McMaster IT Vision and Strategic Pillars, creating Digital Moments to help tell the story of […]