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REPORT OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AND PROJETS COMMITTEE

Presented to the 98th Annual General Meeting

2017 Information Technology Services and Projects (ITSP) Committee Report to the AGM as of October 4, 2017.

           17.11.2 Mandate The Information Technology Services and Projects Committee shall advise and make recommendations to the Board on Information Technology Services and Projects issues.

The new 2017 ITSP Committee of the Board held its first meeting on April 10, 2017 at the National Office in Ottawa. At our first meeting, we identified the 5 top priority projects that the ITSP Committee would work on in collaboration with the PIPSC Informatics team. The ITSP Committee would like to thank the former Director of Informatics Phil Keast for his participation with our committee over the last two years. Some of our projects have been on the wish list of many PIPSC members for many years. These projects started last year with the 2016 ITSP Committee and helped lay the foundation and ground work for the 2017 ITSP Committee to continue to work in collaboration with PIPSC Informatics Manager Eric Richie and staff. The Informatics group has been working hard on as part of the PIPSC IM/IT Strategy Plan and Modernization Plan that was presented to the Board. The ITSP Committee has held 2 further meetings in July and September 2017 and has one last one scheduled for December 2017. We have been working on testing of the PIPSC website prior to being launched on July 10, 2017 and we are looking forward to continue to work in collaboration with Informatics staff on all of our priority projects.

List of the top five priority projects and the committee members involved on each project:

  1. Improved Email & Calendaring (Exchange)
  2. PIPSC website redesign, Service Plus website
  3. Collaboration Tool – Google testing
  4. E-Claims – CVENT Online Booking
  5. Nation Builder L-8 Registration Process for PIPSC Meetings

The ITSP committee is one of the few committees that look at the actual services we provide to our membership and the staff of the Institute. As IT has changed over the years and as more business relies heavily on IM/IT services to succeed and to delivery on its services, it is more important now to have a solid IM/IT Strategy Plan and Modernization Plan. The hard work of the all the past ITSP Committees has lead us to this year, as Chair last year in 2016 and 2017 I have brought a different approach for the ITSP Committee. We have been working in a collaboration approach and working together (Better Together) with the PIPSC Informatics staff by assisting them on the research and testing of the various priority projects like the Google Collaboration and new websites for PIPSC and Service Plus. The ITSP Committee has played a role as reviewer on some of the requirement documents for the projects last year and will make the recommendations to the Board if required and are ready for any motions that the Boards sends to the ITSP Committee.

I personally would like to thank the 2017 ITSP Committee members Yvonne Snaddon-Bilbija, Karim Chaggani, Nicholas Isenor, Christian Gaboury, Kimberley Toms and Todd McCoy, also the ITSP friends of the Committee Cheryl Jennings, Tony Goddard and Kathees Anandavel. Thank you all for your support and thank you to the PIPSC Informatics staff.

In Solidarity,

Greg Scriver
ITSP Committee Chair
NCR Regional Director
Board of Directors