BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY
350 sons about the benefits of staggered rollouts and pilot programs . “ I learned a lot about what happens after a project goes live in a large , disparate organization such as a higher-ed institution ,” he says . “ If you ’ re afforded the opportunity to start small and rollout incrementally , that ’ s a good path to take .”
Bolt has worked with Boise State ’ s current Chief Information Officer , Max Davis-Johnson , since he joined the university from Arizona State in 2010 . “ Max was a game changer in terms of how the university viewed technology as more of a strategic partner rather than just a cost center ,” says Bolt . Davis-Johnson was responsible for implementing the university ’ s Roadmap series of transformational projects across campus . Excitedly , Bolt says , “ As a result of that , we got a data warehouse off the ground , and we implemented our first student and faculty portal .” Then , he explains , the IT department used these large projects as a base on which to build up its governance structure .
With either large-scale projects or gradual transformation of IT governance strategies , Bolt reasserts the
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