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Office of Information Technology

Welcome to the A&M System Office of IT

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Mark A. Stone
Chief Information Officer

About Texas A&M System IT

As Chief Information Officer, Mark Stone is responsible for Information Technology strategy development and implementation throughout the A&M System. The CIO collaborates with leaders across the A&M System to ensure technology solutions support A&M System goals, objectives, policies, procedures and initiatives as specified by the Chancellor.

More information about Mark Stone

The Texas A&M University System is one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation, with a statewide network of 11 universities and eight state agencies. Each member has its own mission, history and goals, and manages its own budget. With little exception, most IT services are not centralized.

  • Vision
  • Strategic Goals
  • Approach

Vision

The vision of Texas A&M System IT is built on these core principles:

Simplify – Replace complex organizational, governance and process models with simpler models that decrease costs, increase efficiencies and decrease risks

Standardize – Minimize the number of tools and processes used by members to decrease complexity and increase collaboration and innovation

Consolidate – Drive cost reductions and lower risk through A&M System-wide virtualization, consolidation of servers and storage and creation of shared services functions

Strategic Goals

Governance – Reduce risk, enhance trust and collaboration and improve IT strategic alignment with comprehensive IT governance

Standardize – Minimize the number of tools and processes used by members to decrease complexity and increase collaboration and innovation

Security – Ensure that people, processes and technology proactively and efficiently provide for the confidentiality, integrity, reliability and availability of all A&M System information assets

Share Services – Reduce IT redundancy for commonly used software and services, provide consistency in the IT services delivered across the A&M System and make specific IT expertise for services available to all A&M System members

Consolidate Contracts – Identify opportunities for the A&M System to leverage its size and reputation, align and consolidate vendor contracts and share information about products and services

Approach

We can’t achieve our strategic goals overnight – we recognize that change is a process and takes time and attention to implement. We’ll work to achieve change across the A&M System by using this approach:

Crawl, Walk, Run – Implement solutions using pilots, small shared service offerings and phased rollouts

Attractional – Offer solutions that are needed, solve common problems and have broad member support

Opportunistic Collaboration – Focus on solving problems that are common to A&M System members and high on their priority list

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