Postponing listening sessions for Digital Transformation Readiness Assessment

As stated in the Board of Regents meetings and Dr. Jim Johnsen's June 16, 2020, memo to the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±appSummit Team regarding the Digital Transformation Readiness Assessment, a $100,000 investment will identify and investigate opportunities afforded by modern cloud-based approaches. The resulting assessment will serve as a roadmap for engaging students across the lifecycle, and for holistically monitoring and improving UA's key performance indicators. 

Through UA's RFP process, Peak Performance Technologies Inc. was selected to conduct the digital transformation readiness assessment. Lead by Robert Cardelli
, President of Peak Performance Technologies Inc., this effort will establish a roadmap, based on thoroughly documented business analysis of UA’s processes, people, platforms, and politics, both current state and future state, to enable °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±appto enact change to:  

  • Modernize systems and processes for students with solutions that are easy-to-navigate, user-friendly, modern/mobile, and reliable.
  • Improve processes involving students—including admissions, scheduling, registration, etc.
  • Use data strategies and analytical capabilities to create new perspectives and insights on improving student and institutional outcomes.
  • Identify and investigate opportunities afforded by modern cloud-based approaches.

This project will assess readiness from a holistic / enterprise perspective. Furthermore, as system wide participation and active engagement are key, we will need the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±appSummit Team and other senior leadership from every sector of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±appfrom application services to student services to reinforce the urgency of honesty and to encourage team members to think strategically about how to fundamentally transform the university. 

In addition, to gain insight into UA's efforts to improve student success, we're holding faculty and student forums on alternating days. We would like to hear from you, the faculty and the students, too. Therefore, we will be having two-hour listening sessions to gather your input.  

The digital transformation listening sessions have been postponed until further notice due to the need to re-evaluate the timing and the number of sessions for staff, faculty and students. Please do not register for any of the sessions listed in the communication. Additional information will be available in the coming weeks.