BCIT’s three-year technology plan

Did you know BCIT has:

• over 600 km of network wires and fibres
• 700 network switches directing the traffic to and from over 5,000 computers and laptops
• over 240,000 emails come into BCIT daily, 122,000 of which get trapped as spam and are never delivered to your in-box
• 200 applications
• 150 central servers
• over 14 terabytes of consumed storage
• 300 program areas, each of which has access to the information and computer technology that is current in the relevant industries.

Information Technology Services (ITS) manages this complex infrastructure, and with such an extensive network, it's no surprise that ITS is big on planning. As a new technology is considered, it must be assessed by ITS to meet the criteria developed in the Three-year Technology Plan.

The main activity in this planning process is to examine trends in society and information technology and explore the implications of these trends for the Institute. Thirty such studies are being carried out at present. At the same time, we are conducting a series of in-depth interviews with senior leaders of BCIT. Each interviewee is asked to think three years into the future to help analyze future operating needs. ITS will then develop the activities and initiatives that will be rolled out over the next three years.

ITS has been eager to involve as many people from the BCIT community as possible so that the Technology Plan is coherent and that BCIT's place in the post-secondary marketplace is sustained and elevated. This will become an annual exercise to ensure that BCIT has a rolling three-year plan to guide us in the ways we use information technology in the years to come.

For further information, or if you would like to have the current Three-Year Technology Plan presented to your staff, please contact Dave Cresswell at 604-432-8729.

Download the Three-Year Technology Plan PowerPoint Presentation [4.3 MB]

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