Short clip: UC Berkeley enabling glocalization

June 19, 2007, 5:03pm PDT | Length: 00:01:10
Shelton Waggener, the CIO of the University of California at Berkeley,explains the importance of providng a framework for both global solutions andlocal customization.

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Short clip: UC Berkeley enabling glocalization

>> Well let me ask you about another one which is centralized versus distributed.

>> Mm-hmm.

>> How do you think about those two poles?

>> I like to think of the concept of glocalization, right ? The global solutions and the local customization. So what is it that we're going to provide as a framework globally that all of the campus will benefit from? And how much do we leave flexibility in that framework for customization locally? And in our Computer Science Department, they have a much greater level of autonomy because they need it. In our Humanities Department, what they need is reliability. So we have a challenge of ensuring those two things are happening. And that means that we ask all of the departments to have some level of technical expertise in their department. As I said earlier in our discussions, we have 400, 450 central IT staff. But there's another 600 IT staff supporting the very unique uses of technology around the campus. So you can see it's not even a 50-50 mix. We support the distributed slightly more than we do the central. But that's through efficiencies. If we can't do central a little more efficient then why are we involved?

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