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Strategic Thinking for the IT Leader in Times of Change

Strategic Thinking for the IT Leader in Times of Change. Seminars on Academic Computing Executive Leadership Seminar August 3-5, 2007 James R. Bottum. Background…. 25 years in research community NSF National center (research; support; industry) 6 th year as a CIO

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Strategic Thinking for the IT Leader in Times of Change

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  1. Strategic Thinking for the IT Leader in Times of Change Seminars on Academic Computing Executive Leadership Seminar August 3-5, 2007 James R. Bottum

  2. Background….. • 25 years in research community • NSF • National center (research; support; industry) • 6th year as a CIO • 5 at a top tier research institution • 1 at an “aspiring” research institution in an EPSCoR state • Consulting & review Generally skeptical about technology…

  3. Themes…. • Thoughts on this seminar’s title… • An organizing principle for strategic focus….. • Business model • Partnership, service • cultural transition • Role of technology…… • Easy wins and integration driver With some experiences mixed in…

  4. On being strategic…. • Understand, align with institutional mission • plan, roadmap, scorecard • relevance • Seat at the table….voice • Strategic theme, organizing principle • Properly focused team • Resources….but • must show value & be entrepreneurial • Rational business model • recreate if needed • Process

  5. What’s Changing? • Expectations • increased service level • Competition • students & faculty • Financial Conditions • Business Model • Mission • faculty are coming back to the IT and computing organizations Suggest that there is a need now more than ever for the silos in IT to come down…..

  6. Cyberinfrastructure as a Strategic Organizing Principle

  7. Definition • The comprehensive infrastructure necessary to capitalize on the dramatic advances in information technologyhttp://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=OCI • Integration is key “Leadership in Cyberinfrastructure may well become the major determinant in measuring pre-eminence in higher education among nations.” Arden Bement, Director, National Science Foundation

  8. CI-Grid community going mainstream • CI often referred to as Grid was initiated by the research community • Distributed, collaborative computing, HPC Centers • But, there are now successful Grids in industry • Finance, Pharma, Oil & Gas, Intra-Grids in Business • Cloud Service providers • Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo and Microsoft • Our students go to work and live in these environments • and not just the technical students

  9. CI in Academic Strategy “Cyberinfrastructure is the primary backbone that ties together innovation in research, instruction, and service to elevate Clemson to the Top 20”…..Doris Helms, Provost Graphical representationof an earlydraft of Clemson’sacademic plan emphasis areasand CI couplingand integration

  10. Strategic Integration

  11. IT Business Model • Does the model make sense • Encourage the right behavior • Simple • how many components • How are priorities set • How are funding decisions made • Where does the money come from • Forward or backward looking?

  12. How does budget map to strategy Office of the Vice President

  13. Clemson CI Investment FY07 Projected FY08 13

  14. Engagement

  15. Leveraged Investments (Purdue) LHC @ CERN

  16. Leverage through partnership… 16

  17. Rearrange the Business Model Clemson Computing 17

  18. Yesterday 18

  19. ITC Today 19

  20. Technology

  21. Build Your Own Grid Condor, a workload management system that enables you to harness unused resources from otherwise idle desktop workstations. Support researchers at almost no cost – work with what you have. Condor is the product of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, principal investigator, Miron Livny, Computer Science.

  22. Leverage Existing Investments March 2007 M. B. Kurz, Industrial Engineering “..Grid computing is saving me” "I had all but given up on this line of research, when I was approached with this Condor idea. Now I am doing work at a scale larger than is usually done." M.B. Kurz *Linked 1200 Clemson lab machines to provide high throughput compute power 22

  23. Productivity & Leverage P. Wilson, Economics July 2007

  24. Blending Research, Education & Collaboration - VO Integratingeducational& researchtechnologies.…faculty need help!

  25. nanoHUB infrastructure Research Collaboration nanoHUB community Virtual Organization Enabling CI Education Single ZIP Package Web presence + Rappture + middleware

  26. Emerging VO – South Carolina Hollings Marine Laboratory Marine Genomics “Portal” • Extend the community and enhance the science through a community driven cyberinfrastructure • Move out of the lab and into professional operation • Scale up and support more users, more applications, more databases CCIT Access specialized CUGI resources (machine and people)

  27. Thank You Jim Bottumjb@clemson.edu

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