Travel Best Practice Effort

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Travel Best Practice Effort

• Fall 2007

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Outline

• Timeline
• Campus Contacts
• Next Steps

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Timeline
Preparatory Activities -Solicit Contacts for
Project from FOA Members -Review and Update Draft
Questionnaires -Discovery/Research Session
6/6 - 9/17
Current State Questionnaire Distributed to Campus
Contacts
9/17
Conference Calls with AnswerThink -Introduction
and background on AnswerThink (9/18 - webcast)
-Clarify Questions on Questionnaires
9/18 9/20
Completed Current State Questionnaires Due
10/5
Best Practice Survey Distributed to Campus
Contacts
10/22
Completed Best Practice Survey Due
10/31
2-Day Workshop
11/8 - 11/9
FOA Mtg - 11/28 CABO Mtg - 12/5
Presentation of Recommendations
Determine Implementation Activities and Approach
11/28 - ?
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Campus Contacts

• FOA members asked to provide name of campus
  contact
• Campus contact responsibilities
• Ensure questionnaires are completed and accurate
• May need input from one or more Subject Matter
  Experts (SMEs) at campus
• Ensures appropriate representation at workshop
• May be contacted before or after workshop to
  clarify issues
• Communicate with appropriate campus
  representatives
• Possible involvement in implementation activities
• Send contact info to Larry Kimaara at
  lkimaara_at_calstate.edu

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2 - Day Workshop

• Review questionnaires and data
• Clarify and discuss issues
• Discuss best practices
• Are they applicable / feasible?
• Valuable?
• Effort involved?
• Who to attend
• 1 to 2 people per participating campus
• Management level / decision makers familiar with
  the travel process should attend
• Campus SME and/or FUG Rep may attend as well, if
  feasible
• Location LAX area

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After the Workshop

• Recommendations presented
• Summarize workshop findings
• Best practices
• Are they applicable / feasible?
• Valuable?
• How much effort is involved?
• CSU will then need to
• Select overall approach based on findings and
  recommendations
• Review policy implications
• Implement processes and enabling systems
• Train campus users