National debt is equivilant to 2,600 x the running costs of the University of Leeds. Pundits are saying that public funding is likely to be cut by 25% over the next 3 years, that requires a fundamental shift.
I think I can see what might be coming here - a please for more public sector shared services - cloud based HEI applications? Makes sense to me ....
Tim suggesting that we just aren't ready for the change that's coming. His key tips:
- CIO's need to know your numbers. The ability to read financial statements is going to be more important for a start.
- The importance of trust will be even more important. Certainly that's true for achieving succesful shared services.
- Tell the team what you want, not what to do - then you harness a lot more experience.
Tim's 5 factors: Know your business, know your numbers, stive to be trusted, empower the team and see over the horizon.
Good presentation, but dissapointingly Tim didn't make any suggestions or proposal for how he saw the sector tackling the issue. It was only in questions that the issue of Shared Services was raised. With the government sector publishing the g-cloud ICT Strategy as a key plank in their bid to reduce costs through shared services surely we should be looking seriously at the same thing in HE.
I remain convinced that nothing is going to change until the funding models change to drive shared service forward. Perhaps this is something that UCISA need to start taking a lead on ....
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