iDiscover: Create New Knowledge and Design Solutions to Information Challenges

D1. Collaborative Research Opportunities
Vision Interdisciplinary research is conducted through close working relationships with communities of professional and academic practice selected for their potential contribution to our goals.
Start Date

7/1/2007
End Date 6/30/2010

Phases

Item

 Expected Completion
 
  1. Research Collaborations
  2. CIS Development
  3. I3M Growth
Winter 2010
Spring 2010
Spring 2010

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a. Research Collaborations—Develop strategies and processes for identifying, evaluating, and leveraging collaborative research opportunities
Vision Interdisciplinary research is conducted through close working relationships with communities of professional and academic practice selected for their potential contribution to our goals.
Start Date 3/16/2008
End Date 3/31/2010

Deliverables

Item

Expected Completion
1 Strategic Research Collaboration Criteria

Confirm or revise criteria and process for investigating a strategic collaboration action strategy.

 Autumn 2009
2 Collaboration Proposal Process/Faculty

Documented process or mechanism in which faculty can engage to propose potential collaborations (in the course of doing this, may also develop models for types of collaborations).

 Summer 2009
3 Strategic Collaboration List

Identify list of strategic collaborations and faculty leads for these collaborations.

 Winter 2010
4 Strategic Collaborations Assessment

For each opportunity, engage potential partners to: articulate mechanisms, plans, and milestones by which collaborations can be realized and decide if collaboration should be pursued, delayed, or dropped (include a resources and staffing assessment).

 Winter 2010

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b. ICS Development—Explore developing the Information and Society Center (ICS) into a global center
Vision ICS is a leader in a global network whose research empowers people, communities, and organizations in the Information Society; the research initially focuses on the Internet and its relationship to societal institutions. ICS works in collaboration with the Provost’s Office and researchers from across the UW. The Center is financially self-supporting through major gifts and research funding and is guided by active, engaged UW and global advisory boards.
Start Date 7/1/2007
End Date 10/31/2010

Deliverables

Item

 Expected Completion
1 New Name and Definition of Scope of Research

Rename the Center and redefine its research to reflect broader scope.

 Completed Summer 2009
2 Organizational Structure Outline

Implement an organizational structure that encourages engagement by different UW units in order to leverage knowledge and resources with partners inside and ouside the UW.

 Spring 2010
3 Global Awareness

Propose measures for Center impact.

 Autumn 2010
4 Sustainable Funding

Documented plan with milestones for attaining funding for continued and sustained projects.

 Spring 2010

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c. I3M Growth—Strengthen and grow the Institute for Innovation in Information Management
Vision

I3M is a premier research institute that will help organizations attain agility and competitive successes by managing their most vital assets—information and knowledge.
Start Date

7/1/2007
End Date 6/30/2010

Deliverables

Item

 Expected Completion
1 I3M Growth Plan

Plan for I3M growth that includes assessment of resource and infrastructure needs

 Spring 2010
2 I3M Website

I3M Website

 Completed Summer 2008
3 I3M Marketing Campaign

Marketing material and promotion campaign plan for I3M

 Completed Autumn 2009
4 I3M New Members

New organization members

 Completed Autumn 2009
5 I3M Student Involvement

Develop methods for integrating MSIM student work into I3M so that I3M can be a vehicle to showcase student projects

 Spring 2010
6 I3M Summer Institute

Formalize the Summer Institute seminars to attract alumni and corporate members to campus for the MSIM program

 Completed Summer 2009
7 I3M Sustainable Funding

Endowment and gift support secured for sponsoring I3M activities

 Spring 2010

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