In project management terms, the Information Futures Commission achieved sign-off last month.
The Commission delivered three key documents to the University community:
Final Report of the Steering Committee, describing the consultation process, summarising what we learned, and analysing the major areas of contention
Melbourne’s Scholarly Information Future: a ten-year strategy (”Zis iss ze big vun,” as Otto von [...]
M’colleague Michael asked this week whether the Information Futures Commission has identified any recent-ish equivalents to itself at other universities.
A related question has come up several times in the last couple of months. When we ask a senior stakeholder for an opinion about what issues the Commission should tackle, the response is often,”Well, what are [...]
For a successful project, you need an effective steering committee and an influential sponsor who cares about what you’re trying to achieve in the project. Ideally the sponsor should chair the committee.
We had our first steering committee meeting today.
The sponsor/chair opened the meeting.
He tabled a single printed page, an excerpt from a book: Yes Minister’s [...]
Sometimes you just get lucky.
A couple of weeks before Christmas, on my last day at work, an all-staff email announced an Information Futures Commission would start work in the new year. The Commission would develop a 10-year strategic plan for the University’s ’scholarly information’ environment — libraries, information literacy, curation of data created as a [...]