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2006 Campus Technology Innovators: IT Planning
7/22/2006
TECHNOLOGY AREA: IT PLANNING
Innovator: Orange County Community College
Challenge Met
At Orange County Community College (part of the State University of New York), an antiquated paper-based planning and budgeting process might still be in use if Angela Elia hadn’t been invited to attend a planning and budgeting committee meeting one day two years ago. She hasn’t missed a meeting since, and with fellow IT Support Specialist Artur Charukhchyan, has helped build and implement an online tool that has revolutionized the school’s budgeting procedure, and turned it into a truly collaborative, public process.
After the college’s accreditation body suggested that the school “make planning part of the college culture,” SUNY Orange formed a planning and budgeting committee, on which Elia was asked to sit.After analyzing the existing process, she proposed an inventive online solution dubbed the PIP, for the Planning Initiative and Prioritization System. The system, in use since May, has introduced a new method of communicating departmental plans and selecting funding initiatives. Instead of paper forms moving slowly through departments and on to committees, with little attention or outside review, the entire planning and budgeting process is now online and transparent, making in-process budgeting information easily accessible to anyone throughout the process.
Benefits include:
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