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Developing a BPR Mindset
With the aim of increasing the speed and quality of its services, DVO teamed up with the Organisational Excellence Transformation Unit (OETU) to identify and streamline its processes over a period from August 2021 to April 2022.
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DE’Hackathon: Transforming NUS Through Digital Enablement
In July, NUS staff put their digital skills to the test at the inaugural DE’Hackathon, leveraging Digital Enablement (DE) tools and technology to address challenges, experiment with new ideas, and transform work processes.
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A mOSAic of Organisational Excellence
When the Organisational Excellence (OE) exercise was launched a few years ago, one of its goals was to inspire a culture of continuous improvement and agility across the University. One department which has fully embraced this ethos is the Office of Student Affairs (OSA).
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NUS Rolls Out New Curriculum Management System
NUS launched a new curriculum management system (CMS) in July 2022, providing greater visibility and efficiency to module creation, review and publishing.
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Navigating Compliance and Risk at NUS
Today’s workplace is becoming increasingly complex: as various business and personal relationships intertwine, identifying threats to decision-making at work becomes more difficult.
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uNivUS clinches national WSH Innovation Award 2022
uNivUS was a pivotal platform enabling the safe navigation of our campuses, and monitoring of health during the pandemic.
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Confidence in An Ethical Culture
Driven by NUS’ mission to maintain trust and confidence among students and the public, the NUS Whistleblowing Unit (WBU), under the purview of the Office of Risk Management and Compliance (ORMC), ensures that all staff uphold a high standard of integrity.
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Digital Enablement: Tapping on Tools and Experience
Necessity is the mother of invention but openness to change and experience are essential for successfully reengineering processes and finding the right tools for the best results.​
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Now Admitting: Organisational Excellence
To continuously improve the admissions experience and the supporting administrative processes, OAM employs several approaches in its overall unit work routines.
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Mentoring the Sustainability Champions of the Future
Not many of us have the good fortune to meet our childhood idols in real life. So, when NUS alumnae Ms Cheo Pei Rong, Senior Manager and Career Coach at the NUS Centre for Future-ready Graduates (NUS CFG), met famed biologist and natural historian Sir David Attenborough, she felt like “a total fangirl”.
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New one-stop platform boosts service performance
NUService Hub, which commenced in mid-2021, has been getting the thumbs up so far. Fully launched in June, it marks a significant step in NUS’ vision to strengthen its operational efficiency and administrative excellence.
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Co-creating a workplace of the future
A new series of townhalls was launched on 10 March, aimed to engage the NUS community to gather thoughtful inputs and generate ideas to reimagine and co-create the workplace of the future for NUS.
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Enabling efficiency the digital way
Technology is rapidly evolvinges to generate new ways of working, and facilitating the digitalisation of processes for smoother and more efficient work.
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Students play a part in Organisational Excellence
Staff may form the bulk of stakeholders in most of the OE projects but students are blue-chip players too.
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Opening doors to new knowledge
A staple of NUS Libraries, the Central Library underwent a long-awaited facelift and reopened its doors on 3 December 2021, with a renewed sense of purpose.
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Procurement’s promising pathway
Timely reviews and continuous improvement are imperative to ensure procurement in University remains a strategic function.
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Hop on for a smoother bus ride
Did you know that the NUS Internal Shuttle Buses (ISB) cover a whopping distance of 1,112,430 km collectively on our campuses annually? That makes it about 27 trips around the earth!
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Uniting with uNivUS
The number of disparate NUS mobile apps has long been a bane to campus users, and the gauntlet was thrown in 2019 to see if all these apps can be integrated into a single “mother of all apps” platform.
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Keeping Fit with Traditional Moves
For Associate Professor Lau Tang Ching, NUS Medicine Vice-Dean (Education), his affinity with Tai Chi (colloquially known as shadowboxing) started at a young age.
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Procuring medals and prizes with ease
At a university as large as NUS, the procurement of medals and prizes during the annual Commencement ceremonies involves many departments, and the process can be tedious and time-consuming.