Where Do We Go From Here: Summative Assessment of a Five-Year Strategic Plan for Linking and Integrating Information Resources

Abstract

This paper provides a summary assessment of the success and current and future directions of a five-year strategic plan for linking and integrating information resources.Five years ago, Grambling State University implemented a comprehensive five-year strategic plan for linking and integrating its disjointed information resource systems using the umbrella of telecommunications. The range of services encompassed in the plan, included energy management, surveillance and security, voice, data, and video communications, office automation, and administrative and instructional computing. The original paper described in detail the integration of separate aspects of these systems.After a brief recap of the original plan, this paper sets forth the primary aspects of its implementation: technical implementation, integration of the technology into the workplace, and quality issues as related to human, physical, and capital resources. Further, the paper describes current and future directions for telecommunications as outgrowths of the successes and shortcomings of the original plan.