Financial & Cost Models

Content pulled from Henry Glaspie of University of Central Florida from the June 2nd, 2021 final workshop.

Ownership & Governance

• Senior Level Involvement

  • Budget

  • Policies

  • Strategic Planning

• Working Group

  • Knowledge of the research

  • Research administration

  • IT Support

  • Information Security

Gather the Evidence

• How much of this research do you do?

• Return on investment

• SMEs

• What is coming?

Examine the Evidence

• What are you trying to achieve

• What is your current state of compliance

• What are your cost drivers

  • Personnel

  • Hardware

  • Software/Supporting Applications

• Cloud services/MSP

• Distributed vs Centralized IT

The Intersections

• Centralized vs Decentralized IT

• On-premise enclaves

  • One or many

• Cloud Enclaves

  • One or many

• Vendors/Business Partners

• Cost Recovery

Challenges - just to name a few

• Sustainability

• Project Budgeting

• Use of existing resources

• Licensing

• Physical security

• Remote work