Phase I: Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide strong leadership and direction and demonstrate top-down commitment

  • Maintain the roadmap, direction and charge of the organization on the future
• Establish and monitor accountabilities (measures of individual and organizational success)
• Affirm and make key strategic decisions
• Maintain a “doable pace” that accommodates the resource demands made by the existing operation and the organizational transformation

Responsibilities:

• Advisory to the president and provost
• Sets strategic and operational priorities (e.g., project goals and objectives)
• Allocates resources (budget, people, technology, etc.) in line with strategic priorities
• Provides functional input (e.g., budget, IT, operations, governance) when needed
• Monitors implementation plans and initiative results to ensure project success and take corrective action if needed

• Academic Planning Committee
• Academic Support Committee
• Bioinformatics Business Planning Taskforce
• Government, University and Industry Taskforce
• Community Engagement Taskforce

Responsibilities:

• Provide thought leadership for key initiatives
• Provide functional input (e.g., academic, budget, operations, governance) when needed
• Review and advise on implementation plans and initiative results to ensure project success
  • Recommend corrective action if needed

• Faculty envisioning groups for the strategic strengths
• HR Transformation
• Sponsored Programs Improvement Initiative
• IT Strategic Transformation

Responsibilities:

• Create and implement project and program action plans
• Conduct necessary analysis to provide deliverables and recommendations to support implementation of campus goals and objectives
• Provide primary project functional input
  • Provide objectivity, creativity and innovation to ensure the best possible solutions for the campus
• Demonstrate a strong commitment and willingness to embrace change
  • Support solution development in a team environment

• David Felder
  Artistic expression and performing arts
  
• TBD
  Bio-defense and response to catastrophic events
  
• Bruce Holm
  Bioinformatics and health sciences
  
• Robert Granfield
  Civic Engagement and Public Policy
  
• Leonard Epstein
  Clinical sciences and experimental medicine
  
• Venugopal Govindaraju
  Information and computing technology
  
• Tamara Thornton
  Cultural, historical and literary/textual studies
  
• Kenneth Blumenthal
  Molecular understanding of biological systems
  
• Alex Cartwright
  Nanomaterials
  
• Paula Zagora
  HR Transformation
  
• Charles Kaars and Deborah Scott
  Sponsored Programs Improvement Initiative
  
• Elias Eldayrie
  IT Strategic Transformation
  
  

Responsibilities:

• Assume ownership for the day to day activities of individual project teams
  • Work with consultants to develop work plans, team tasks, activities, timelines, and deliverables
• Coordinate team member effort outside of meetings
• Primary advisory role to the Steering Committees
• Demonstrate a strong commitment and willingness to embrace change
  • Support solution development in a team environment

UB has engaged the services of AVCOR Consulting to provide guidance and facilitation of the planning process. Their services include:

• Planning Methodology
• Project Management
• Facilitation
• Program Management
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Best Practice Reviews
• Administrative Support