1. Management Information Systems In UK Higher Education

2. Margaret Taylor MIS Director University of Oxford

3. Did I say MIS? Management Services AISU MAISU MIS

4. MIS – the role To provide Administrative and Management Systems to the University To provide technical services to central administration

5. Evolution? Pre MAC initiative up to 1988 MAC Initiative 1988-circa 1998 Post MAC run up to Y2k The 21 st century

6. Pre MAC Individual strategies General cooperation Huge variance in cover

7. Mac Initiative Families formed round technology General wait for family to deliver Was there a 100% solution?

8. Post Mac Drivers abolition of the binary line? HESA Year 2000 problems Need to re-address systems Some radical approaches

9. After effects of MAC? has the market for specialist HE systems been depressed by MAC? Disillusionment on the part of the ‘customers’? The major players re-enter the market their specialist systems are immature

10. 21 st Century Outsourcing ERP Best of Breed Data Warehouse

11. Trends from operational (central service) bespoke client /server (even character) to relationship distributed self service package 80/20 rule web interface

12. Oxford now Prophecy Open door In house central student systems(s) Small scale PC systems (Admit, Resolve)

13. Oxford futures OSIRIS Must be forward thinking Research projects pre and post contract? E- procurement? work flow Highly devolved Web delivery? Business Process Review

14. Oxford futures Student Records Involve all University departments and colleges Devolved data ownership shared single database Portals relationships with staff, students

15. Oxford futures Open Door Rationalise development Roll out to more users Consider data quality

16. Oxford futures Management Information across many systems Coordinated electronic document storage? Research submissions Use Intranet for communications as an information resource

17. Requirements Cooperation across all sectors Admin, departments, colleges Willingness to change Where change is in the best interest Resource In MIS and user departments Funding Spend money to save money?

18. What next Evolve an MIS strategy to serve the strategic plan Draw up a three to five year plan to serve the strategy In consultation with all users Draw up detailed project plans for the next 6-12 months