About IS&T
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Overview
Who We Are
Our Work
Overview
Information Services and Technology (IS&T) enables MIT's core mission -- to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century -- by working with the Institute's faculty, students, and staff to maximize the value of information technology to their work.
As the central IT department at MIT, IS&T has a wide range of responsibilities, from providing the campus network to ensuring critical day-to-day business operations to strategic planning for IT. IS&T staff, as representatives of MIT, bring their expertise as recognized worldwide leaders in areas such as security and the Internet to benefit other institutions of higher education and beyond. Collaborative activities across the MIT community (e.g., committees, outreach programs) inform IS&T efforts to provide the services that support the needs of our clients. IS&T continually gathers information on the user experience at MIT to develop clearer and more consistent communications and to launch appropriate experiments in improved IT services.
There are seven strategic themes that guide the department's activities:
- service orientation - understanding the work and goals of the people and organizations at MIT to improve our focus on providing world class service as true partners with our clients;
- technological innovation and leadership - generating the ideas and experiments that will lead to the next generations of IT services;
- collaboration - working with other IT departments on campus and IT users throughout MIT, as well as colleagues on other campuses, to foster a collaborative environment for problem solving, to plan for future IT needs. and to ensure that MIT is getting the best and most cost effective information services support and technology available;
- communication - improving the flow of information throughout IS&T and the MIT community, engaging clients and colleagues in a dialogue about IT needs and priorities, increasing the visibility and benefits of IT services, and creating the identity of IS&T as an effective service organization;
- excellence in project execution and management - on schedule, on budget delivery of hardware and software systems that meet or exceed client expectations;
- a high degree of fiscal responsibility coupled with sound financial management;
- personnel development - giving each member of the IS&T community the opportunity to contribute to the full extent of his or her capabilities.
Who We Are
IS&T Organization
An overview of each of the functional areas that make up IS&T, including detailed organizational charts are available for download:
Search for Jobs in IS&T
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Our Work
Reports and Presentations
Key organizational presentations, reports and updates
