Update
from Week Twelve
- Discussions with
team and individuals about interim options for handling recent resignation –
further discussions are in progress
- Webinar with
Diligent who have a “Board Pack” solution with key user
inputs. Seemed to be very
positive reception to this sort of solution. Next step is more work on
our requirements and also some indicative pricing and timelines. Suggested target timeline is parallel
running with a key committee for ramping up
next year to other related groups.
- Provided some
good suggestions for NSS promotions relating to our services which will be taken forward by the communications team.
- Gartner Group proposal received – passed to procurement for further discussion. Also potential
student benefit regarding access to research materials as an e-resource.
- NorMAN 24x7x365 service proposal being progressed.
- Various 1-2-1
meetings
- Agreement between
teams to move some resource for a few weeks to support the
packaging efforts by the desktop team.
- A few new support requests this week e.g. Akero integrations,
contract/legal team system request, international travel system request, financials for the Multi Academy Trust. The pipeline has been busy this week!
- Attended Project Lessons Learned meeting for Telford Engineering facility. Only item for us was the ongoing AV issues in the Board Room and Pitch Room. A plan was agreed including some Estates funding.
- This week’s scrum
meeting - rough notes:
- UCISA Exec – useful updates including JISC
subscription: risk of potential increase but may be modest
- UCISA Mentoring scheme (pilot) and
also mentoring opportunity via Liverpool University contacts
- Digital signage pilot agreed
for MU building – stretch objective to get it running for open day
mid-Feb in partnership with Faculty and External Relations
- Meeting with Wolverhampton City Council:
- looking at email quotas and plan
to allocate more “golden tickets”
- GDPR meetings are coming up
- Making good progress on the Digital Library Project
and potential Finance system integrations
- HR starting investigation of absence solutions with
aim to have sickness absence running for June.
Good
News
- Excellent kick
off meeting with Getech regarding the Lenovo contract. Hopefully added value by making sure we
promote the benefits of the deal to all staff and students – External Relations
being provided with social media collateral and opportunity to link to
recent sponorship by Lenovo of the race team.
- No P1
incidents. Wi-Fi service recent
issues hopefully addressed with supplier fix implemented early on Thursday
morning.
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