Enterprise Systems Steering Committee — Fiscal Year 2010

Structure

Effective January 2009, this Steering Committee assumes and expands the role previously undertaken by the Systems Advisory Group (SAG) and serves as the primary governing body for enterprise systems planning at Northwestern University.

The new Steering Committee interacts significantly with both ESEC and the Planning and Budget Group. Tim Sanker, Project Manager in the Office of Change Management, serves as facilitator and staff support for the Chair and the Committee.

The Chair and Committee members are appointed by the Enterprise Systems Executive Committee.

Purpose

The Enterprise Systems Steering Committee (ESSC) is to:

Take responsibility for identifying and developing investment/funding priorities across all institutional enterprise systems, and making recommendations on these priorities to the ESEC and the University’s Planning and Budget Group. Specific tasks include:

• Reviewing all enterprise and institutional information technology funding/investment requests above a dollar amount to be determined from HRIS, SES, FMS, AIMS, BI/Reporting, OR Systems, and NUIT Collaboration Systems
• Gathering input from the ADC, NUIT, administrative units, and schools regarding institutional funding/investment priorities across all enterprise systems; utilizing ADC and NUIT to identify and address key strategic issues related to institutional priorities for enterprise systems
• Determining priorities for funding approval across all of these systems
• Engaging NUIT in discussions regarding recommendations for funding approval of priority items across all of these systems
• Forwarding funding priority recommendations to ESEC and the Planning and Budget Group for review and approval
• Meeting with ESEC and the Planning and Budget Group to review funding priority recommendations and answer Group member questions to help inform final investment decisions related to enterprise systems priorities
• Reviewing progress of enterprise systems in utilizing investments to enhance functionality

Members

• Ingrid Stafford, Chair
• Pamela Beemer
• Linda Bennett
• Thomas Gibbons
• Cathy Grimsted
• James Hurley
• Meg McDonald
• Jeffrey Miller
• Michael Mills
• Ronald Nayler
• Jean Shedd
• Patricia Todus