Community Briefing Series

1
Community Briefing Series

• October 23, 2007

2
Agenda

• Welcome Opening Remarks
• Whats New at CPE
• Campus Updates
• Q A

3
WPIs Life Sciences Bioengineering Center

• WPI Occupants
• BEI (Bioengineering Institute)
• Biology/Biotechnology
• Biomedical Engineering
• Chemistry/Biochemistry
• Chemical Engineering
• Corporate Professional Education
• Commercial Research Labs
• - MBI Biotech incubator
• 4 Startup companies
• - RXi Pharmaceuticals

• Took occupancy May 2007
• 125,000 sf research facility
• Open lab design
• Investigators grouped by research focus
  interdisciplinary approach

4
The LSBC Team
October 16, 2007
5

• Corporate and Professional Education

6
Market Demands
Content-Specific Education Programs
Workforce Development
Access to Applied Research
CPE Customer
New Idea Stimulation
Access to Experts
Access to Peer Networks
Consulting on Management/ Technical Processes
Understanding of Best Practices
7
A Portfolio of Solutions
Public Programs
Executive Forums
Custom Programs
Corporate Professional Education
Undergraduate Certificate Programs
Graduate Certificate/Degree Programs
Industry-specific Workshops
Academic/ Industry Partnerships
8

• Project Synergy

9
(No Transcript)
10

• Sungard Initiative
• aka Banner Redeployment
• aka Unified Digital Campus (UDC)

11
Work in Progress

• Baselining current environment
• Reviewing completed assessments
• Conducting strategic business process mapping
• Implementing transition architecture
• Advancement first, with others to follow

12
Enterprise Architecture Update
13
Supporting Roles

• Information Analysts
• Student Affairs, Development, Academic Affairs,
  HR/Finance
• Director of Institutional Research
• WPI Project Manager

14

• Web Communications Update

15
Two-Phase Strategy for WPI Website

• Phase I Implementation of Content Management
  System

16
RED DOT
17
Content Management System

• Purpose
• Provide departments and divisions with access and
  ability to update and edit content without Web
  Office bottleneck
• Enable Web Communications team to transition from
  technical focus to marketing and communications
  focus

18
Content Management System

• Key Needs (as expressed by the community)
• Increase training support
• Add technical web resources
• Establish web squad for on-site services
• Create Help Desk approach

19
Phase II

• Re-Development of Overall Web Architecture and
  Design

20
Big
Bad
21
Web Re-Development Project

• Purpose
• To create a Website design that supports WPIs
  strategic vision and serves as a communication
  tool for key outside audiences and the internal
  WPI Community

22
Web Re-Development Project

• Multi-Step Process
• Strategic Analysis - in progress
• Design
• Build
• QA and Delivery
• Implement WPI Content Migration Plan

23

• Thank you!
• Questions?