IT initiatives at McMaster will work towards building a transformative IT structure that helps create “delightful” technologies and world class experiences for students, faculty, and staff.

Working as a connected community, McMaster will deliver a seamless foundation of core and transformative information technologies and services, accelerating the University’s teaching, learning, and research mission and enabling engagement, adaptability, and connections at all levels of the institution.

Initiatives will continue to go through IT Governance processes for collaboration, prioritization, consultation, and endorsement, with details on strategic alignment, cost, resources, and expected business outcomes. How initiatives align with the Institutional Strategy and IT Strategic Pillars will be a necessary requirement for all proposals.

Coordinating with the budget cycle, new initiatives should be developed in winter/spring for the following fiscal year. To learn more about IT Governance, visit the Teams Group here.

Strategic IT projects and initiatives proposals are required to look ahead for appropriate financial planning and reporting on behalf of the initiating department or faculty.

Many of the initiatives identified in the McMaster IT Strategic Plan and subsequent or associated institutional strategies have discovery phases and the outcome of these projects are integrated into the planning for upcoming fiscal years.

Budget planning for the following fiscal year is completed in November, and this also represents the mid-way point for approved projects. The McMaster Fiscal year runs from May 1st to April 30th. Funds to begin new approved initiatives become available on May 1st.