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Welcome to COMPASS:

USF Online Business Processes

Explore our business Processes!

USF reengineered many of its Processes to a Right Now Web database system which provides these advantages:

·  Easy/Consistent Updates

·  Ease of maintenance

·  Inexpensive compared to similar products

·  Automatically builds FAQ database from customer questions.

Our Subject Matter Experts have improved COMPASS, including:

·  Additional USF-Wide Processes

·  Popular University forms integrated into Processes

·  Improved search features (by category, keyword or phrase)

·  Ability to e-mail Processes directly to co-workers

·  Is what you need to know NOT online? Ask questions on-line which are directed to the Subject Matter Expert.

·  Choose to be notified via e-mail when specific Processes are updated.

·  Provide feedback directly to the Subject Matter Expert online!

I can find my way... Can you? How to use COMPASS

Winners of a 1998 Davis Productivity Award Certificate for efforts to measurably increase performance and productivity, make Florida state government more effective, efficient, and responsive to all Floridians.

COMPASS PHILOSOPHY

COMPASS provides an integral first step toward creating a paperless workplace at USF. The generation and use of information by educated, trained, and competent individuals is the cornerstone of the "Information Age." Challenged to provide the leadership that is crucial to national and individual success, Higher Education is looking to technology to create a new teaching/learning model and a new quality/service model. To this end, the University of South Florida has embarked on the creation of a culture that fosters quality, efficiency, and productivity in the classroom and in the administrative support areas. An integral part of this initiative is the use of technology in a way that strengthens and accelerates significant results. COMPASS is an important part of this initiative by:

  • enhancing university-wide responsiveness to process change:
  • having unlimited possibilities for linkages to data networks:
  • greatly improving the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the day-to-day business operations of the University:
  • enhancing communication of the division and department staff and their internal customers, and
  • identifying streams of work as a concept used to describe, in workflow diagrams and supporting text, every vital step in a business process. The streams of work also serve as a useful tool to assist customers in understanding business processes.

Recognizing the promises of emerging technology and the role faculty and staff play in utilizing the available information, the University of South Florida is committed to developing individuals and teams in the acquisition, sharing and use of information.

COMPASS Major Business Categories

  • Accounting/Auditing/Budgeting
  • Appointments
  • Attendance & Leave
  • Auxiliary Services
  • Benefits
  • Bookstore
  • Campus Safety-Personal
  • Classification-HR
  • Compensation
  • Employment
  • Equal Opportunity
  • Facilities & Building Services
  • Foundation (USF)
  • Health and Safety
  • Human Resources
  • Payroll
  • Policies and Authority
  • Purchasing/Receipt/Bill Payment
  • Research
  • Technology & Information
  • Travel

Participating Divisions/Departments

  • Administrative Services
  • Campus Business Services (Bookstores, Office Stores, Parking, Printing, Quick Copy, Vending)
  • Budget and Policy Analysis
  • Enterprise Business Systems
  • Equal Opportunity Affairs
  • Environmental Health and Safety
  • Facilities Planning and Construction
  • Foundation (USF)
  • Human Resources
  • Information Technologies
  • Organization Development and Training
  • Physical Plant
  • Purchasing and Property Services
  • Sponsored Research (Contracts and Grants)
  • University Controller's Office
  • University Police
  • University Relations
  • USF Lakeland

COMPASS SPONSOR

Trudie Frecker

COMPASS Steering Workgroup Members

  • Administrative Services - Sheila Holbrook
  • Campus Business Services – Steve Long, Marion Rice
  • Budget and Policy Analysis - Bertha Alexander, Stewart Slayton
  • Enterprise Business Systems – Judy Plazarin
  • Environmental Health and Safety  - Charles Brown
  • Facilities Planning and Construction - John Crosby, Jim Neighbours
  • Foundation - Michelle Cummings
  • Human Resources – Nancy Ward
  • Information Technologies - Christopher Akin, Jennifer Johnson (RightNow Administration)
  • Organization Development and Training – Gabi Grohmann
  • Physical Plant - Siva Prakash, Brian Ippolito, John McCall
  • Purchasing and Property Services – Bill Gill, Heather Hand
  • Sponsored Research – Rebecca Puig, Robin Jones
  • University Controller's Office – Linda Peterson, Mark Devore
  • University Police – Tammy Crouch
  • University Relations - Angel Arcelay
  • USF Lakeland - Joshua Bresler

COMPASS Training

To support the integration of the on-line business Processes into the workplace, procedure training is coordinated by the Division of Organization Development and Training (ODT). Visit their website for up-to-date information: http://usfweb2.usf.edu/odt/.

Training class announcements are made on the USFNews listserv and via Inside USF.

Classroom instruction on the Processes is conducted by the Subject Matter Experts from the divisions responsible for the Processes.

To assure participants the greatest degree of personal attention and involvement, training sessions are limited in size.

TO REGISTER

To register for a Business Processes training session, see the COMPASS: USF Business Procedure Training Programs at http://usfweb2.usf.edu/odt/. To assure participants the greatest degree of personal attention and involvement, training sessions are limited in size. If a registered participant is unable to attend a program, a $50 charge will result unless they notify ODT within five working days of the program or find a replacement to fill the vacancy. Substitutions are permitted at any time.

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