How does the Mosaic project impact the University?

After a recent presentation on Mosaic, a question was raised about how the Mosaic project would impact, or be impacted by, the current effort to restructure and transform the University.  That's an important question.  In fact we'll use this question to introduce Mose, the voice of the Mosaic project.  If there's a question about Mosaic, Mose knows.

In an ideal world we would already have implemented Mosaic before the restructuring occurred.  That way we could use the capabilities of Mosaic to help in analyzing the impact of various proposals and then to help in implementing the agreed on actions.  Any restructuring of necessity requires revising the administrative systems in order to conform to the new structure.  The flexibility in the Mosaic software would be an advantage. At this point it's not clear how the timing of Mosaic implementation will fit with the timing of any restructuring, but it seems very likely that some restructuring will occur before Mosaic is fully live.  So we will do what is necessary with our legacy systems.  And in fact the organization has never stood still in the past, so we will deal with it.

On the other hand, a University restructuring could affect the implementation of Mosaic.  But the nature and extent of this isn't clear at this time.  And it won't become clear for some time yet.  So the best way for Mosaic to deal with it is to get involved as appropriate, stay informed, and above all stay the course, unless and until we know something that causes us to change.  By contrast, the worst thing we could do would be to worry about something that is unknown, and especially to slow down pending clarification.  After all the prospect of unforeseen change is always with us.  When change happens we analyze it and adapt to it.  Business as usual. Full speed ahead.  In fact the need for enhanced data and recordkeeping has never been greater, along with the need for business intelligence to make use of the data.

--Mose