The FY23 “fostering a culture of innovation” balanced scorecard initiative initiative originated from the concern that our intense focus on service quality may overshadow opportunities to develop innovative solutions. It explored prevailing attitudes on innovation and recommends an organizational approach to foster individual empowerment and innovative solutions to address constituent needs better while continuing to improve service quality.
The Health Sciences at Yale has a tradition going back over 100 years. Comprising of the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, and the clinical services offered by Yale Health and Yale Medicine, it represents over 80% of the research and nearly half of the overall operations for the university. The nature of health education, research, and clinical services results in some unique underlying technology needs.
Summer is great for relaxing our minds and bodies, but not our cybersecurity muscles! With the new academic year upon us, it’s a good time to refresh our security practices.
Phishing attackers never rest and we continue to see campaigns where people have unintentionally shared their NetID, password and other sensitive information.
Your simple actions can make a big difference to the safety of our systems.
The IT Leadership Team met on Wednesday, June 28. Based on questions from the IT Town Hall and employee surveys requesting clarification on career paths, promotions, and equity, the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) chose this opportunity to provide strategic guidance on the merit process for ITS. Updates, announcements, and congratulations on outstanding efforts, such as the launch of LUX kicked things off. Introductions were made for new hires.
On Saturday, June 24, at 7 a.m., a construction crew working on the third floor at Arthur K. Watson (AKW) on 51 Prospect Street accidentally damaged a sprinkler head. This caused water to cascade down to the networking closets on three floors, resulting in networking equipment failing.
In partnership with other teams, ITS worked through the weekend to assess and repair the damage. New equipment was gathered from a warehouse location and brought to the building. By Sunday afternoon, the network was back online, prior to the start of the workweek.
Earlier this week, the Information Security Office shared a communication inviting the IT at Yale community to our upcoming focus groups. In case you missed it, we hope you’ll join us.
The Minimum Security Standards (MSS) and Security Planning Assessment (SPA) are two key aspects of the Yale Information Security Program.
The IT Leadership Team meeting met on May 31 and discussed the following topics:
Launching LUX – Yale’s Cross-Collection Discovery at Yale
LUX: Collection Discovery—Yale’s new cross-collection search tool—launched internally on May 16, and publicly on June 1. The launch was marked by press events celebrating worldwide online access to more than 17 million items within Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives.
