About
The IT Finance & Staffing portfolio provides leadership of IT's financial and workforce management capabilities, ensuring that OHIO IT is financially sustainable and that the workforce is engaged, empowered, and equipped to deliver meaningful results.
Mission
To equip IT leaders with insights and tools to strategically manage resources and talent, optimize financial investments, develop a skilled and flexible IT workforce, and allocate them to their highest and best use.
Vision
To build a high-performing IT organization where people thrive, innovation flourishes, and resources are strategically managed to maximize impact. By aligning talent and investments with the University's priorities, we create a culture of trust, collaboration, and purpose that drives sustainable value.
Portfolio Priority
A Portfolio Priority is not the only work happening in this Portfolio, but it is the highest priority. If we do not make progress on this priority, the Portfolio will not be successful:
Portfolio Priority: IT Finance and Staffing
Develop a sustainable funding model to manage inflationary costs, optimize product/service levels, and invest in strategic priorities through elevated IT financial narrative and executive engagement.Results will include a financial strategy blueprint, regular executive engagement, and a lightweight metrics & reporting framework.
Roadmap
The IT Finance & Staffing roadmap lays out where we currently are and where we expect to be in the coming months and years. This roadmap will be updated regularly to reflect changing industry standards and changing needs within the University, but the overall trajectory should be predictable from semester to semester.
The IT Finance & Staffing portfolio roadmap is coming soon!
Senior Director
Brian Bowe
Current Initiatives
Developing a sustainable funding model to manage inflationary costs, optimize product/service levels, and invest in strategic priorities through elevated IT financial narrative and executive engagement.
Evolve the IT Leader Community of Practice to focus more deeply on fewer, high-priority, organization-wide changes with an emphasis on shared understanding, commitment, and accountability in cultivating consistent ways of working across portfolios and product teams.
Notable Accomplishments
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Empowered & grew talent through OHIO IT Development Programs
To date, we have successfully run 8 development program cohorts, fostering both leadership and career growth opportunities across the organization.
- 48 participants have been accepted into various program cycles
- 40 participants successfully completed their development programs and 95% have been retained at the University
- 2 graduates have transitioned to new opportunities outside the organization
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Launched IT Leader Community of Practice
The IT Leader Community of Practice, charged with Cultivating Excellence in IT Leadership, was launched in mid-2024 to support the ongoing and emergent needs of IT People and Product Managers through transformative change, while increasing collaboration and reducing silos.
By The Numbers
In 2023, OIT eliminated 9 positions and reinvested $680k in savings into market salary adjustments to mitigate staff retention risks.
In 2024, OIT paused hiring 7 positions in support of President Gonzalez’ directive and eliminated 1 position due to efficiencies and outsourcing of Canvas support to reduce/defer $600k in staffing costs.
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Senior Director, Brian Bowe