Digitisation Office

The Faculty has a central Digitisation Office with the main goal of converting manual paper based processes into digital electronic solutions. This office is mainly responsible for:

Identify, evaluate, design, test, operationalize, and implement innovation. Measure its impact on cost-reduction, revenue-generation, institutional productivity, and faculty and staff morale.
Evaluate current systems, policies and processes to identify opportunities to best optimise faculty resources by eliminating redundancies and by increasing automation and system functionality.
Evaluate data available in financial systems as well as other administrative systems to identify and address gaps between the data available and the data desired.
Develop operational and analytical query tools for data analysis and reporting to strengthen operations and guide decision-making. Assess usage and effectiveness of reports and dashboards and evaluate opportunities to improve.
Create a community of business intelligence experts within Business Management and across the faculty who will share their expertise and best practices for developing tools and reports to increase analytical data-driven decision making.
Build executive dashboards and self-service mechanisms in conjunction with university structures in order to utilize accurate and timely data in both operational and strategic decision making.

The Digitisation staff includes the following staff members: