"davidjf (publications)" - 5 new articles
Educational Web 2.0?Some posts on the web these times about Education 2.0, Classroom 2.0 and so one... As a lecturer in MBA's, some feelings on all that stuff: - first of all, a nice report , with comments , rather optimistic, showing new trends - then less positive views and comments - some good lists of new exciting tools for education.. I tried, as a lot of professors in Europe, to use and spread those techniques, from informal networks with ning for classrooms to some moodle or dokeos courses. - Informal networks are more used by students for fun and self image promotion than to create efficient student and alumni networks (and why not!) - Education system in Europe favours too often traditional teaching, where professor "pushes" its information to the students instead of modern way where students - work first by themselves on books, dvd's, online material, - then work together, in a cooperative mode, on relevant projects ("learning by doing"), - and only then meet professor than teach "by difference", filling the gaps and transmitting additional relevant knowledge... My deep feeling is that globalization of education (all those new courses in China, in Africa, in central and eastern Europe, ...) is changing the game, with more need, for economic reasons of modern Web 2.0 techniques. But key inhibitor remains professor's culture, habits and traditions.... Web 2.0 goes on...Web 2.0: a large bag with so different feelings and philosophies. Can "subversive" concepts become institutional? Can those tools and techniques, reflects of self image, with a total appropriation (what do I do now..., my specific passions and friends..., it's happening now..., my special tricky way to access information...,), become a common practice for everybody? Will people seek contact and networks or go back to CAN (Computer aided narcissism) ? This one open the question. That can explain this "war", within organizations, to make Web 2.0 a mainstream. Why this fear for web 2.0? At the same time, Web 2.0 becomes global ... ...And a very good clever blog by Internet visionary Tim O'Reilly, the man credited with creating the term Web 2.0 A stimulating video, back to blogging, students are there, September...Fantastic video to re-stimulate your minds (if necessary). A Microsoft research using photos of real or virtual objects "scraped from around the Web, creating multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation". Some short thoughts on that: - This idea of making real hyperlinks between photos, videos open the question: Who code the links? who makes the relations. To day the "machine" is still a bit unable to do that (image semantic recognition...) - Real life vs Web virtual life. Have we so much time? Good back to real school and/or to real life after a long summer... Order, disorder, classifications, life, power, real life, mind life, ....I just recently found this David Weinberger fantastic presentation video (alerted by Tony Karrer blog). Very close of my way of thinking. I really love it (content, style, ideology). A bit long (57 mn) but no feeling of time looking at it! ...I permanently have a difficult relation with order (who defines the order? why, for which reason...), I like freedom of choice in existentialist way (and without illusion, knowing internal and external determinisms...). ...I prefer Google search "non classification" than hierarchical access to data (even on my PC). Thanks David for this exciting stimulation (found naturally randomly on the web ...) IT/IS possibly manageable?IT Governance is key, but some good tricks and more there if you want to fail ! And you know that bad IT governance is a big risk ... - Look about IT governance this "perfect" synthesis report by PWC... - And what is board implication in IT governance? and more ... The first objective of IT governance is strategic alignment (this "mechanical" concept !). A rather new magazine focus on that... - Concerning alignment, some nice companies , Staples, Wells Fargo, Dow Chemical and Dell Computer manage their strategies not just one application at a time, but how they attack integration as an end-to-end process, from supplier to customer. - Some new tricks on this alignment topic? There , a good checklist... - Good IT governance implies some ethical aspects ... ...and IT projects still fail !! Only 28% of IT projects succeed these days, down from 34% a year or two ago. Outright failures -- IT projects canceled before completion -- are up to 18%. The remaining 51% of IT projects are "challenged" -- seriously late, over budget and lacking expected features (Standish Group)... - Agile programming is a know set of strategies (and even Extreme programming ... ) in that domain. That impacts portofolio strategy management (one of the key "communication" aspects of good governance !). Can a solution for portofolio management be to implement only 1 program (just a joke), an ERP, solving everything for everybody. What is the real relation between agility and ERP's? Again the same old theoretical and practical key problem, what part must be "mechanized" and what part (of everything) has to remain "organic"... And always, some guidance and toolkits updates: Cobit , so useful to everybody, the need of scorecards and dashboards ... tags: IT governance , IT scorecard, projects More Recent Articles |
