Strategic Technology Investment Committee (STIC)

The mission of the STIC is to:

  • Effect change. STIC will respond to concerns about information technology investments by reviewing the current services provided to campus stakeholders–students, faculty, researchers, and staff– and seek opportunities to offer services in the most effective manner.
  • Enhance our ability to receive the most value from our strategic investments: doing the right thing, at the right time, and for the right price.  Proposed technology initiatives will be analyzed and prioritized based on their total cost/benefit value.
  • Equip the Georgia Tech community with the tools and services they need to meet the Institute’s mission.  STIC incorporates an inclusive process that fosters problem-solving and leverages expertise throughout our diverse community.  The goal of this process is encourage agility, flexibility, and innovation; resulting in a tapestry of solutions and services that enable users.
  • Enable engagement and transparency throughout the process.  Transparency is a critical factor in realizing success with the STIC framework.  Implementation team members were quick to articulate the lack of transparency as one of the major contributors to the creation and maintenance of silo services on campus

STIC and TEC Web Resources and Project Portfolio

Project Request, Prioritization, and Approval

The Project Request Intake, Prioritization, and Approval process enables the Georgia Tech community to pose an idea for a new service or improvement to an existing service.   The project request provides information on the value and associated risks of the service to the GT community, as well as the total cost of ownership to include one-time project costs as well as the recurring costs for maintaining the service once it is deployed.

Ideas for projects that meet one or more the following criteria should be sent through the Strategic Technology Investment Committee (STIC) project intake, prioritization, and approval process:

  • Requires Resources (funding, infrastructure, human resources, etc.) beyond college or business unit.  Two examples are: 1) may need to engage Office of Information Technology-OIT (and/or resources from another college or business unit) to implement a solution; -or- 2) requires funding beyond college or business unit.
  • Will (positively or negatively) impact campus stakeholders
  • May encounter risks by moving forward or not moving forward with the project

Project Approval Process

The Project Request Intake, Prioritization, and Approval process steps are:

  • An idea is documented and submitted to Georgia Tech Strategic Consulting by the idea champion. The idea champion provides a description of the idea as well as how the idea would benefit Georgia Tech.  The idea is aligned with at least one (and possibly more) of the Institute’s strategic goals.
  • The Technology Expert Council (TEC) reviews the idea and determines the feasibility of the idea from a functional and technical perspective.  TEC assembles a virtual task force of functional and technical stakeholders to formulate a project request, inclusive of approach, proposed timeline, resources, and total cost of ownership information.
  • TEC reviews the completed project request and provides information to the Strategic Technology Investment Committee (STIC) on the project’s feasibility, fit within the technology portfolio, and a recommendation on whether to pursue the project and in what timeframe.
  • STIC reviews the project request, information from the TEC, and determines the next steps for the project request.  STIC may determine that the project request needs to be approved at the Senior Institute Leadership and Advisors level, given the investment or impact to strategy and campus constituents.  STIC may also ask for additional information before making a decision.

Project Forms

Please use the following forms to submit a Strategic Technology Investment Committee (STIC) project request.

GT Project Request

Project Budget Implementation Costs

Both the GT Project Request form and the Project Budget Implementation Costs form will need to be completed.  Please email the completed forms to the meggan@consulting.gatech.edu as the first step to in the project request, prioritization, and approval process. If you have questions or need assistance please contact a member of Georgia Tech Strategic Consulting.