This document provides an annual review from the Chief Executive of Jisc, an organization dedicated to meeting the digital needs of education and research sectors in the UK. It summarizes Jisc's achievements in 2014, including delivering key services and projects, maintaining financial control, and driving its own transformation. It also outlines Jisc's structure and leadership team for 2015 and its plans to continue optimizing operations, engaging stakeholders, demonstrating value and efficiencies, pursuing technology innovation, and generating new income streams.

1. January 2015 Annual review
Martyn C Harrow, Chief executive

2. Welcome
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3. What Jisc is
» The sectors’ own organisation for digital; under its own oversight
» Dedicated entirely to the sectors’ individual and collective needs
» Not a vendor: Jisc deals with and/or works with vendors and publishers on the
collective behalf
» Not for profit: every £ used for the sectors’ benefit
» Unbiased?
» Of the sectors’, by the sectors’, for the sectors’
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4. Some context
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Whilst:
» Delivering all key services that our communities use every day
» Delivering key projects and developments such as Janet6
» Maintaining financial control and prudence through turbulent change
» Driving relentlessly Jisc’s own transformation and financial reprofiling
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5. Achievement areas 2014
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Delivery of existing solutions and services:
excellence for today
Solutions and value in the here and
now for every stakeholder:
Jisc’s service and solutions portfolio
Innovating / managing / optimising the portfolio
New solutions and services:
new futures for tomorrow
New futures: solving problems / tackling new
opportunities for and with our stakeholders:
Jisc’s product and service lifecycle
management Jisc’s R&D programme
Development of our own
capacity and capability:
the ability to deliver the above two
Continuously fitting ourselves to do this to
world-class standards of efficiency,
effectiveness and impact:
Jisc’s own transformation & development
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6. Jisc’s continuing transformation 2014
» Engagement: Our interaction with stakeholders and customers - in partnership - for their
individual and collective benefit
» Value and efficiency: Evidencing and expressing the value of Jisc to every stakeholder in
ways relevant to them
» Technology presence and innovation: Ensuring our services and innovation span the
technology agenda optimally and deliver the value that customers need and want
» Jisc itself: Continuing to shape Jisc for outstanding, focused performance and high efficiency
…….. and achieving a 34% lower financial envelope
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7. Financials
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8. Financials
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9. Jisc executive group and top-level structure 2015
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Martyn Harrow
Chief executive
Robert Haymon-Collins
Executive director
customer experience
Alice Colban
Chief operating officer
and deputy chief
executive
Mark Wright
Chief financial officer
Phil Richards
Chief innovation
officer
Lorraine Estelle
Executive director
Jisc digital resources
and divisional CEO
Jisc Collections
Tim Kidd
Executive director
Jisc technologies
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10. Jisc transformation: 2015 building on 2014
Core » Jisc continued optimisation e.g.:
› Continuous portfolio review
› Cost reduction
› Values and culture
› Infrastructure and ways of working
» Engagement
› Implementation:
- New customer facing approach
- New architecture of stakeholder / customer engagement
» Value and efficiencies
› Expressed for every stakeholder / customer / group / sector / nation: in their terms
› Demonstrable ‘efficiency’: Jisc is the best way to deliver this value
» Technology presence and innovation: Building on the asset of the Janet network
› Innovation pipeline to deliver new futures
› Developments to enable new sector business models (e.g. shared data centre)
New » Income generation – making Jiscom happen
› Business case approved at November Jisc Board
› Focus on public enterprise opportunities first
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