Conversations and plans for digital transformation have been underway for some time, having been explicitly identified as an objective in The UWI's Triple A Strategy — AG5: Foster the digital transformation of The UWI.
Since the start of 2020, the programme has been energized with the appointment of a new steering custodian and a core team of domain sponsors committed to delivering tangible and pragmatic results to the university community.
This transformation is a complex, people- driven exercise, seen as a means of consolidating current structures and processes to maximise collaborative synergies, agility, effectiveness and efficiency, to deliver greater value to stakeholders.
The work model for the digital transformation programme is focused on optimising mission- critical operations across the entire university system:
The roadmap for The UWI's digital transformation programme sets out a path that includes four phases which run from September 2020 through August 2023: