AACII

MIT Administrative Advisory Council II

Minutes October 26, 2017

AACII Meeting Agenda
Thursday, October 26, 2017, 2-4pm in Room 1-214

Note Taker: Lisa

1. MIT Travel Registry: Linda Dionne, Program Manager, OMA, Robin Lemp, Director, Office of Major Agreements, and Todd Holmes, Program Manager, Int'l Safety & Security.

  1. 1)  Awareness of travel registry
    – Broad collaboration across Institute

  2. 2)  Understanding – how, why
    – Identified as top 10 risk – international travel
    – Registering travel in departments for students, need to bring existing processes up to speed to include faculty/staff – Registering travel, how to communicate efficiently and quickly
    – Linked to Atlas and MITSIS – uses email address
    – One Community – One Administration Solution – travelregistry.mit.edu
    Simple registration, single shared system, integrated w/ other vendor platforms for risk planning, preparation, response
    – Pilot phase, however semi-LIVE
    – Adoption (not mandatory) in own interest – How to encourage use?
    Present to students at orientation, faculty meeting
    – Groups of travelers – Identify
    – Community of practice – Care

  3. 3)  Feedback
    – Remembering to register, booking through Concur automatic, proxy function for registering trips, credentialing to see if a traveler is registered, affiliates can be registered with Athena/Kerberos account name.

  4. 4)  Q&A – further questions send to Pia/Sue.

2. Reporting priorities on behalf of MIT’s Administrative Systems Steering Committee (ASSC): Olu Brown, Director of Platform Engagement

ASSC – what reporting needs are in common across the Institute, eg. Brio -> Cognos, Tableau, etc.
– Reports needed: research volume, student and advisor reports using the GAP team, faculty eligible for sabbatical, forecasting tool, anticipated funds (time and money display)
– Conversion to Tableau: SANDI
– Where are these reports listed: VPF, Cognos, etc. – looking at ways to consolidate information
– Make reports like SMS with supervisors available
– Dashboard to find reports
– Prioritization of reports needed

3. AACII Poster for Collaborating for MIT’s Future Poster Session event – Report Out – All
Themes for Administrative Managers (AO) Networking Breakfast (handout)
– People Matters conference theme linked with leadership
Managing risk at MIT – cuts across all functions (Medical, HR, Audit, EHS, etc.) Debbie Fischer, Mike Moody, Cecilia Stoupis, et al.

– Compensation and Competition for HR including R&R

4. Discussion of AO Networking Event Possible Dates – All – Title event: Administrative Managers or AO? Dates – late January, or late April
HR conference TBD, LY early March

AO/FO Meeting – early March

Next Meeting:
Our next AACII meeting is November 16th 2-4pm in 4-105