{"id":193,"date":"2020-05-18T11:51:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T02:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-research-services\/?p=193"},"modified":"2020-05-20T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T02:02:42","slug":"introducing-the-grants-lifecycle-management-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-research-services\/2020\/05\/18\/introducing-the-grants-lifecycle-management-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Grants Lifecycle Management Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559731&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335562764&quot;:2,&quot;335562765&quot;:0.9,&quot;335562766&quot;:4,&quot;335562767&quot;:10,&quot;335562768&quot;:4,&quot;335562769&quot;:0}\"><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">The\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">Grant Lifecycle Management (GLM) <\/span><\/b><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">project is designed make it easy for researchers to <\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">manage the milestones and financial information related to their grants and contracted research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559731&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335562764&quot;:2,&quot;335562765&quot;:0.9,&quot;335562766&quot;:4,&quot;335562767&quot;:10,&quot;335562768&quot;:4,&quot;335562769&quot;:0}\"><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">The project will optimise business processes and systems related to managing grants. It will improve the quality of data researchers and <\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">financial managers have at their fingertips to assess project progress through\u00a0 milestones, financial metrics, and <\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">compliance with contractual agreements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The project is co-sponsored by Professor Robert Saint, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), and Richard Porter, Chief Financial Officer, and is designed to improve data quality by reusing and streamlining existing data, systems, and integrations wherever possible.\u00a0 The project will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unify financial and non-financial grant information into one consolidated dashboard<\/li>\n<li>Reduce researcher time spent managing grants<\/li>\n<li>Ease financial reporting<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate compliance with new revenue reporting requirements, eg for HERDC and financial accounting (AASB15).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currently, researchers use a myriad of manual processes, spreadsheets, and systems to manage grants. The GLM project is designed to streamline processes and provide a &#8216;one stop shop&#8217; for grants and finance information about research projects.<\/p>\n<p>ResearchNow will be leveraged to reduce the need for researchers to learn a new system and to take advantage of integrations with the new HR system, and, in future, the TechnologyOne financial system and the business intelligence &#8216;data lake&#8217; for reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The project will be delivered in an interative manner according to the below milestones<\/p>\n<div class=\"row display-flex default\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 deepest-column no-image-column\">\n<div class=\"component_in_section_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rte text parbase\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"628\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Q2 2020<\/b><\/td>\n<td width=\"553\">\n<ul>\n<li>Design future state for pre-award certification<\/li>\n<li>Deliver research pre-award\u00a0 form in ResearchNow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Q3 2020<\/b><\/td>\n<td width=\"553\">\n<ul>\n<li>Deliver award data and updated processes in ResearchNow<\/li>\n<li>Deliver financial and non\u2013financial milestones for grants in ResearchNow<\/li>\n<li>Deliver dashboards in ResearchNow for RDS, Grants Finance and Finance Business Partners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Q4 2020<\/b><\/td>\n<td width=\"553\">\n<ul>\n<li>Deliver integration between Technology One Financials and ResearchNow<\/li>\n<li>Undertake data cleansing<\/li>\n<li>Roll out integrated finance and research dashboard for Chief Investigators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Q1 2021<\/b><\/td>\n<td width=\"553\">\n<ul>\n<li>Deliver integration of updated data from ResearchNow and TechnologyOne Financials into Data Lake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Q2 2021<\/b><\/td>\n<td width=\"553\">\n<ul>\n<li>Deliver business intelligence dashboards for college executives, college staff, and research support staff<\/li>\n<li>Deliver process changes to support HERDC and AASB15 reporting requirements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you would like to contribute to this important project, or if you have any questions, you can contact the project team:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lumai Tingey (GLM project manager), <a href=\"mailto:Lumai.Tingey@flinders.edu.au\">Lumai.Tingey@flinders.edu.au<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bec Linehan (senior business analyst), <a href=\"mailto:Bec.Linehan@flinders.edu.au\">Bec.Linehan@flinders.edu.au<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latest information about the <a href=\"https:\/\/staff.flinders.edu.au\/colleges-and-services\/ids\/drs\/grants-lifecycle-management\">project<\/a> is available on the Digital Research Services website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Grant Lifecycle Management (GLM) project is designed make it easy for researchers to manage the milestones and financial information related to their grants and contracted research. 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