Information
Systems and Data Quality
New York State Office for the Aging
Here
are a few highlights of our continuing work with the New York State Office for the Aging.
Working with NYSOFA staff we developed a system dynamics model of long term
care, a web-based questionnaire to collect reporting compliance plans from the
local Area Agencies on Aging, an "Aging Services Leadership" PowerPoint
presentation emphasizing relationship of data quality to an expanded role in
long-term care; training materials to improve subcontractors' data collection
efforts, and a PowerPoint presentation showing the relationship between expenditures
on data quality and funding allocations.
The
IT Commons and the "New College"
University at Albany, SUNY
The
development of the IT Commons
expanded to address the creation of a new college that would house the
existing School of Information Science and Policy, Department of Computer
Science, and the university-wide Information Science PhD program. Working
with these three faculties and university governance has involved a diligent
process to keep all of the stakeholders informed, engaged, and fully
participative in the decision-making process.
Up
and Running
NYS Center for Information Forensics and Assurance
Eager
to get up and running, the New York State Center for Information Forensics
and Assurance initiated construction of two laboratories, developed
curriculum materials in cyber security and information forensics, hired
staff, and launched a variety of research projects. More.
Korean
Executive Program in Information Policy and Strategy
University at Albany, SUNY
We
were asked to conduct the Korean Executive Program in Information
Policy and Strategy
for Korean government executives in the late fall. This is the fifth program
of this type that we have offered.
Collaboration
and Facilitation Training
Information Technology Services
We
provided training in collaborative organizations and group facilitation to
approximately 35 staff of Information Technology Services. If you're interested
you can take a look at the course
description and recommended readings.
Strategic
Planning Retreat
Innovative Decisions Inc.
The
entire staff of Innovative Decisions Inc. set
aside this retreat to figure out how to manage their rapid growth while maintaining
their reputation as the "best available" analysts.
Strategic
Planning
Hudson Mohawk Area Health Education Center Board of Directors
With
a very ambitious agenda, the Hudson Mohawk Area Health Education Center Board
of Directors examined its mission, allocation of resources to new initiatives,
identification of strategic partnership opportunities, and resource
development priorities.
What
is Public Management?
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
The
faculty sought to describe how the field of Public Management is approached
at Rockefeller College and how this relates to other fields and courses of
study.
Who
Will Keep the Public Healthy? - Strategic Planning Retreat
School of Public Health, University at Albany
In
its report, "Who
Will Keep the Public Healthy? Educating Public Health Professionals for the
21st Century,"
the Institute of Medicine identified eight new "critical areas" for
public health professional education. The faculty addressed the challenge of integrating
these critical needs into their existing degree programs.
Information
Science and Policy Program
University at Albany
This
faculty retreat was organized around the questions, "Where are we going
as a faculty, intellectual field, and as an organizational unit on the
campus?"
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