Strategic Focus Area 8: Finance and Infrastructure

As a university community, we are dedicated to enhancing our budget prioritization to promote the strategic distribution of resources.

We are committed to constructing and maintaining a state-of-the-art and inviting campus infrastructure that fosters a sense of belonging and provides an ideal atmosphere for academic and research activities.

Our information technology and decision-making resources will be tailored to support the growth of academics, operations, and research, ensuring we have the necessary tools to achieve our objectives. Lastly, we strive for efficiency and collaborative operations, enabling us to attain our collective goals and make optimal use of our resources. 

Strategy Groups to Boost Finance and Infrastructure

Strategy Group 1: Improve process and transparency of budget prioritization based on strategic initiatives

Strategy Group Accountable Person: Director Accounting and Budget

  • Tactic 1: Align investments with the strategic plan.

Strategy Group 2: Develop, operate, and maintain a safe, modern, and attractive campus environment that promotes creativity and innovation for our students, faculty, and staff.

Strategy Group Accountable Person: Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning and Operations

  • Tactic 1: Address Physical Infrastructure Updates and Needs.
  • Tactic 2: Develop Research Facilities.
  • Tactic 3: Align maintenance/custodial activities and enrollment management on-campus events to maximize effectiveness in recruitment.
  • Tactic 4: Ensure space and land use support the strategic plan.
  • Tactic 5: Campus safety and security.
  • Tactic 6: Promote Sustainability and Energy Conservation.

Strategy Group 3: Ensure information technology infrastructure is sufficient to support achieving strategic goals

Strategy Group Accountable Person: Acting Chief Information Officer, Information Technology

  • Tactic 1: Assessment of IT’s ability to meet current needs and enable and accelerate North Star Goals.
  • Tactic 2: Strengthen IT security to protect against various threats, including malware/ransomware attacks.
  • Tactic 3: Improve IT’s support of research computing.
  • Tactic 4: Improve high-performance research computing to support growing research activities.
  • Tactic 5: Create outreach and training programs to equip faculty and staff with technological tools to support the success.
  • Tactic 6: NIST 800-171 and 800-172 compliance.

Strategy Group 4: Improve data literacy and data usage to support decision-making, increase productivity, improve efficiency, and foster a culture of collaboration and accountability

Strategy Group Accountable Person: Senior Business Intelligence Consultant

  • Tactic 1: Support the decision-making process at S&T by providing leaders with real-time data and analysis.
  • Tactic 2: Increase access to organized data by on-boarding all S&T service lines into Power BI and deprecating legacy reporting solutions.
  • Tactic 3: Create a culture of collaboration by enabling cross-functional reporting, moving all remaining modeling to the Microsoft cloud, breaking down data ownership silos, and providing consumer training to the S&T community.
  • Tactic 4: Process and Performance Improvement: Collaborate and consult with units to design and develop new and improved analytics, reporting solutions, and applications to support strategic and operational missions.
  • Tactic 5: Lay the foundation for a predictive analytics program at S&T by starting a machine learning program focused on the central service lines.

Goal Alignments

North Star Goal Alignment

Foundational.

Missouri Compacts Primary Alignment

Planning, Operations, and Stewardship.

Strategic Team

Strategic Focus Area Leadership

Alysha O’Neil—SFA Accountable Person

Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations

Mark Fitch—Faculty Liaison

Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering
Faculty Senate, Budgetary Affairs Committee Chair

Strategy Group Accountable Persons

Lisa Cerney

Director, Budget and Accounting

Perry Koob

Acting Chief Information Officer, Information Technology

Andrew Sommer

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant

Fred Stone

Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning and Operations