July 20, 2022
Four months ago, my husband and I decided to move our family onto our 42’ sailboat, Frances. After two years of pandemic “house arrest,” I wanted to breathe fresh air and fix a daily gaze on the horizon. When we finally let our families and work colleagues know about our plans, everyone had a similar version of the same question — “Wow, what a change! How are you going to manage two...
May 18, 2022
“What’s Changing?” That’s the number one question folks on the UW Finance Transformation (UWFT) program team get asked from our stakeholders. Sometimes, it’s in follow-up to a conversation about a more specific topic like “What’s changing about the design for our new product catalog?” Other times, we get the question from those we haven’t checked in with in a while, who ask, “What’s changing...
March 15, 2022
By: Jeff Bishop, Change Management Pillar Lead, UW Finance Transformation
Jason Kalivas, Change Readiness Manager, UW Finance Transformation
Over the past two years, the UW Finance Transformation (UWFT) program has ramped up its engagement with you — our stakeholders — and your units through various team outreach and multiple activities. The functional and technology teams are...
February 17, 2022
Dr. Nancy Allbritton joined the University of Washington (UW) as the Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of Engineering in November 2019 where she provides leadership to over 279 faculty and more than 8,000 students. An internationally-renowned researcher and inventor – with 43 issued and pending patents – Albritton also holds an appointment in the UW Department of Bioengineering. Her lab focuses on new technologies for...
January 13th, 2022
In less than 18 months, UW Finance Transformation (UWFT) will go live and begin to transform our fragmented and out-of-date finance policies, processes and systems. This work is vital so that we can advance our University’s public mission of education, discovery, community service and patient care.
This new infrastructure, set to launch in July 2023, will enable us to make real-time, well-informed and...
December 15, 2021
As we approach the end of 2021, looking back at this time last year -- December 2020 -- we were all in waiting mode. The COVID-19 vaccine was starting to be administered. We had hopes of resuming leisure travel, reopening businesses and returning to campus. Within UW Finance Transformation (UWFT), the program also took a moment and decided to insert a new stage --...
November 16, 2021
By: Francis Sadac, Training Lead, UWFT
Amber True, Training Designer/Developer, UWFT
There’s no need to wait for a “formal invitation.” As part of UW Finance Transformation’s (UWFT) training approach and to assist staff who have expressed eagerness to gain more financial knowledge or wondered...
September 13, 2021
Last week, our University’s Board of Regents voted to approve a revised scope, schedule and budget for the UW Finance Transformation (UWFT) program, an undertaking as big and complex as it is mission-critical. As I wrote last year, updating our nearly-five-...
August 10, 2021
When change requires us to alter the way we’ve done things for years, or brings new concepts into our vocabulary, it can be daunting. The UW Finance Transformation (UWFT) program may seem that way to many users of the University’s finance and supply chain systems. But imagine being able to approach your work in your comfort zone, understanding all the financial systems and...
July 13th, 2021
With thousands of UW employees relying on financial data and processes to do their work, how will UW Finance Transformation (UWFT) confirm that our new finance and supply chain solution is designed to accurately meet their needs? The answer lies within a sprint.
Sprints help UWFT ensure the design of a comprehensive, user-friendly and efficient system. How is this done? Through validation,...