Completed Projects
HIMSS: Hybrid Information Management Skills for Senior Staff
The HIMSS project aimed to contribute to the Higher Education sector's succession planning for senior information management staff. The project was funded under the Fund for Development of Good Management Practice as part of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Good Management Practice initiative. The project reviewed and identified the information management skills needed by senior managers of library, information and computing functions (both academic and administrative computing) within converged and non-converged services.
The project sought to analyse how these skills might translate into a
coherent, yet modular programme of management development, also evaluating
the extent to which this management development programme might lend itself
to delivery using web-based learning products.
It was also the intention of the project to develop a diagnostic tool
through which individual staff aspiring to senior posts, and institutional
management, could assess their own suitability and that of their staff,
for senior information management posts. A particular focus of this project
was on the hybrid information management skills needed to enable such
staff to perform successfully across the whole information spectrum.
CIRT evaluated the project, undertaking document analysis and interviews
with staff across all the categories of the project.
The project was led by, and managed by, the University of Birmingham. The Centre for Information Research (CIRT) was consultant to the research and evaluation phase, over a 12-month period (Jan 2001 - Dec 2001).
Further information, including project documents can be found on Birmingham
University’s website:
http://www.himss.bham.ac.uk/