{"id":25851,"date":"2022-07-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=25851"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:23","slug":"school-of-information-offers-free-workflow-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2022\/07\/19\/school-of-information-offers-free-workflow-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Information offers free workflow consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-600x400.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of students gathered around a table with many sticky ntoes, analyzing a process workflow.\" class=\"wp-image-25854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-400x266.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-665x443.jpeg 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01.jpeg 1798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>UMSI Marketing &amp; Communications<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/\">University of Michigan School of Information<\/a> (UMSI) offers U-M departments the opportunity to have a process or workflow that needs improvement to be analyzed by a team of graduate students. There is no cost to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Various ITS groups have worked with the School of Information in the past, including Information Assurance and Teaching &amp; Learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To propose a project, please submit your idea for consideration for a team of students to work on in the 2022-2023 academic year as part of SI 501: Contextual Inquiry and Consulting Foundations. Feel free to share this message broadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SI 501: Contextual Inquiry and Consulting Foundations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During this one-semester course (September-December 2022), teams of four to five UMSI master\u2019s degree students complete semi-structured interviews to identify, analyze, and recommend solutions related to products, services, and information processes. A recommendation report is provided at the end of the semester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ideal projects fit within one of the following categories:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Improving or repairing an existing information or communication process or service.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Evaluating service design, such as processes for walk-in customers at service desks.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Project requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Must have an existing process or workflow that needs repair or improvement (can include a communication process, service design, internal process workflow, and more).<\/li><li>Must provide 6-10 people who can be interviewed about the process (at least 3 who manage or are affected by different parts of the process).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To apply, <a href=\"https:\/\/umforms.tfaforms.net\/218328\">fill out the School of Information&#8217;s &#8220;New Client Opportunites&#8221; registration form<\/a>, ideally by July 22, and write \u201cSI 501 project\u201d along with your project idea in the Project Idea box. After you submit the form, a member of UMSI&#8217;s client engagement team will reach out to collect some additional details.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn more about other client-based opportunities offered by the U-M School of information at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/host-student-project\">umsi.info\/clientopportunities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMSI is offering the opportunity to have one of your processes or workflows be analyzed by a team of graduate students for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":25854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[986,987,978,26,985],"class_list":["post-25851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development","tag-consulting","tag-process-workflow","tag-professional-development","tag-training","tag-umsi"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01.jpeg",1798,1198,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-400x266.jpeg",400,266,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-768x512.jpeg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-600x400.jpeg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-1536x1023.jpeg",1536,1023,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01.jpeg",1798,1198,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-200x140.jpeg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-60x42.jpeg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-658x300.jpeg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-665x443.jpeg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DesignJam_GreatLakesWaterSafety_01-400x250.jpeg",400,250,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Kelly Kowatch, School of Information","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/kkowatch\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"UMSI is offering the opportunity to have one of your processes or workflows be analyzed by a team of graduate students for free.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25851"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25911,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25851\/revisions\/25911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}