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We hear the importance of having inclusive, collaborative teams, but often lack effective tools and practices needed to support this change. To truly leverage diversity within teams, they need to actively foster open communication and dialogue, prioritizing different perspectives as input into decisions. Continue Reading Supporting Inclusive Teams: Tools and Practices

We have witnessed a lot of extra effort wasted over the years in the UC system, costly endeavors to build huge and expensive one-off projects as well as efforts to build even bigger systems to consolidate and centralize these systems. This session will cover an alternative IT strategy that will make data-informed decision making more accessible for campuses. Continue Reading Realigning the Wheel: Facilitating the Adoption of a Data-Informed Culture

Instructional media is ubiquitous in higher education. Whether it is lecture-captures, just-in-time instruction, fully produced videos, or quickly recorded feedback, we are all creating a significant amount of media! In this presentation, you’ll hear the story of one campus’ approach to supporting media capture and providing media management solutions. Continue Reading Lecture Capture Uncorked – Enabling advanced and efficient video at the enterprise level with YuJa

UC Campuses are all growing, and sometimes the way we provide our IT services must grow and evolve from small, localized practices, to more of a Centralized, and Enterprise-driven approach. Enterprise Workload Automation has been around for years as a powerful IT tool for driving Organizational goals. Continue Reading Enterprise Workload Automation – Transforming IT Services for Campus-Wide Benefit

It can be easy for a team to get so caught up in doing agile “correctly” that the team stops actually being agile. When applying agile methodologies to different teams, it can be more beneficial to respond to the needs of the team than to adhere strictly to one agile framework or another (ex. Scrum, Kanban). Continue Reading Let Agile Be Agile

The team at UC-Irvine has created different applications for UCI International Center. These applications have not only created a user-friendly experience for international students and eased their transitions into UCI but also made the International center processes related to SEVIS compliance paperless, efficient and cost-effective. Continue Reading Securing International Student & Scholar Success

After a vendor pilot to provide student success tools to our campus failed, campus leadership asked us to determine the true needs of our academic advisors and other student support staff via a thoughtfully executed user-centric business analysis project. Continue Reading Collaborate with your campus constituents: How to apply design thinking to facilitate successful projects