Last Friday was an interesting point in the IT@Illinois discussion. Together with Craig Jackson, Chuck Thompson, Dan Jacobsohn, and Kelly Bridgewater, we organized the Friday morning caffeine break to be an open dialog of the IT@Illinois project. It turned out to be really valuable. These are some thoughts I had coming out of the discussion.

The top priority for everyone is getting the mission actors what they need and not taking away the people they have locally positioned. All the concept authors want to give the faculty, staff, and students the tools they need to do their work. This core value translates into a needed agility at the mission actor level in order to be able to provide them what they need as quickly as possible.

This post is going to be somewhat of an open response to Ingbert's comment to my post on the IT@Illinois launch, and it will segue a bit into talking a bit about some aspects of a concept I've been working on with an amazing group of IT people from around campus.

Yesterday was the kick-off of the IT@Illinois project to envision the future of IT at the Urbana-Champaign campus of University of Illinois. Going into the day, we knew a little of what Sally Jackson, CIO of the campus, had in mind, but we did not know a significant amount of detail of what the Provost was thinking. We knew that the project of transforming IT on the Urbana-Champaign campus was going to be launched, but we did not know what that meant. What did we learn on the day of presentations?