Office of the Chief Information Officer Press Release
The University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

WRITER: Bert DeSimone, 706/338-9849, bert@uga.edu
CONTACT: Brenda Elliot, 706/425-3136, bje66red@uga.edu

CIO and Associate Provost Barbara White nominated for Quality Leadership Executive (QLE) of the Year Southeast Awards 2007

CIO and Associate Provost Barbara White

White joins an impressive roster of nominees, along with their teams, who are being recognized for exemplary practice in the field of Information Technology Quality Assurance. Quality Assurance is the standard and practice of planning and implementing systematic processes for assuring that a product or service meets the quality needed and expected by the customer.

Finalists and winners will be revealed Tuesday, December 11, 2007, at the JW Marriott Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia. The QLE awards Gala will honor the nominees in two categories: Executive Visionary and Executive Application Delivery.

Among the Quality Assurance practices initiated and sponsored at UGA by CIO White are the Compact Planning process and training in Six Sigma methodology. Compact Planning is a highly interactive, collegial, and participatory planning process involving clients, partners, and IT professionals throughout the University. Six Sigma, a quality management program designed to achieve high levels of quality through the application of statistical methods to improve operating efficiency, complements and supports the Compact Planning process.

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About the Office of the CIO and EITS
The Office of the Chief Information Officer and Enterprise Information Technology Services (EITS) are committed to the mission of UGA as a land-and-sea-grant institution where academics come first and the research extensive university community encourages research efforts at the undergraduate and graduate levels. To that end, under the direction of the University´s Chief Information Officer, EITS endeavors to provide a robust, reliable, and secure information technology infrastructure, maintain essential production services, and offer world-class support.