A reorganization worth writing about
Since my arrival at Wellesley about seven and a half years ago, we have reorganized several times. My approach to this is fairly simple: we are here to provide the best possible services and if the way we are organized is coming in the way of achieving that goal, change it. One of the patterns that will be evident at LTS over the years is a serious commitment to increasing the resources for certain groups, projects and activities that support the academic enterprise while managing the administrative departments through business process improvements which in turn reduces the staffing required to support them. We have been pretty good about achieving these so far.
When we decided to move to Workday, it was clear that the Enterprise Solutions group, which consisted of staff who supported all administrative systems such as Banner, Luminis Portal, Oracle, and the Reporting environment , needed to change. The reason is that Workday paradigm is drastically different. When we moved from Luminis to Drupal for portal, it was a great opportunity to rethink staffing because Luminis required a fair amount staffing support. We began the process about four years ago and this past February we announced a major reorg and we no longer have an Enterprise Solutions group!