Thursday 1 February 2018

Wolverhampton weekly newsletter #12

Update from Week Twelve
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  • 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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