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"Business Drivers" for Higher Education
From: Rodney Petersen <rpetersen () EDUCAUSE EDU>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:03:14 -0500
Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute will be conducting a 1/2 day workshop "Information Survivability: A New Executive Perspective" for executives and managers at the Secure IT Conference sponsored by the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force on April 23-25 in Temecula, CA (see www.secureitconf.com). During this Workshop, various exercises will be conducted including one that addresses business drivers and information survivability risks to these drivers. In this context, business drivers describe what executives and managers most care about. This includes the board of trustees, the president, deans, senior staff, and those responsible for protecting the institutions information assets as well as managing the IT infrastructure. One way to think about what should be on this list of drivers is to ask the questions "When you wake up at 3 AM, what keeps you up? What are your primary concerns and issues? What are your biggest risk areas?" Please review the draft list of business drivers below and assist us in making it relevant and germane for the executives and managers at your institution. You comments including additions, deletions, or modifications are welcome. Thanks, Rodney Petersen Security Task Force Coordinator EDUCAUSE Examples of Some Common Business Drivers [excerpted from the Workshop Information Survivability: A New Executive Perspective] •Formulate and fulfill the institution’s mission and objectives •Build and sustain trust of customer (students, staff, local community, research community, etc.) •Protect privacy and data integrity •Make, preserve, and enhance reputation; achieve powerful name recognition •Increase market share oSustain and improve position with respect to peer organizations oImprove rankings •Protect and sustain funding sources and levels •Build and sustain relationships (customers, suppliers, partners, vendors) that add value •Acquire and retain competent staff •Meet performance within cost and schedule constraints ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/memdir/cg/.
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