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MIS40650 – Emerging Modes of Organising Work and their Implications

This session explored the concept of privacy and its implications in modern IT based social culture. Introna’s article summarizes the various theoretical notions of privacy and the current debate about privacy in academic circles. Introna – Why we need privacy … Continue reading

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MIS40650 – Big Data, Analytics, and Evidence-based Management

This session covered the connections between Big Data, Analytics and Evidence Based paradigm. Goldenberg’s article on evidence based approach in medicine was discussed. In particular the debate was around the notion articulated in the paper that the appeal to the … Continue reading

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MIS40650 – Trust in Global Networks of Innovation

This session covered the issue of trust which is now becoming more important due to the advent of Virtual organisations.The concept of virtual organisations have been discussed in Introna’s article but to say that the concept has been articulated or … Continue reading

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MIS40650 – ICT and Knowledge Working in Practice

This session continued from the last session’s discourse on McDermott’s six characteristics of knowledge. There was a broad agreement with concepts like knowing is a human act, that knowledge is a residue of thinking and that knowledge belongs to the … Continue reading

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MIS40650 – Rethinking Knowledge and its ‘Management’

The session started with a discourse on Dreyfus’s five stage phenomenological model of skill acquisition. The argument given by Dreyfus is that expertise in general cannot be captured in a rule-based expert systems. Dreyfus & Dreyfus Dreyfus – Expertise in … Continue reading

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MIS40650 – ICT and Emerging Global Networks – Prospects and Challenges?

The session started with a review of Friedman’s lecture at MIT Thomas Friedman – The World is Flat (VIDEO) The World is Flat (May 2005) – http://video.mit.edu/watch/the-world-is-flat-9145/ The review concluded that Friedman’s analysis has merit but there is perhaps over … Continue reading

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MIS40650 – Knowledge, ICT & Organisation Syllabus

UCD School of BusinessMSc (iBusiness) Programme MIS40650 – Knowledge, ICT & Organisation Summer Semester, 2014/20015 Module Lecturer: Dr Séamas KellyCentre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation (CITO) Q226, Quinn Building UCD School of Business Belfield Tel: 716-4728email: Seamas.Kelly@UCD.ie Office Hours: After … Continue reading

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MIS40680 – Managing Strategy & Innovation – Assignments

Group Project: Report on the assessment of the strategic value of ICT at Guinness and recommendations to maximise it in medium term based on resource-based and contingency perspectives. MIS40680 Group 5 Project Paper – Guinness MIS40680 – Group 5 Presentation … Continue reading

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MIS40680 – Managing Strategy & Innovation – The Fall and Rise of Data and Business Analytics

MIS40680 Lecture Slides DER: MIS 40680-2015 Class 9 Final Simon Wardley OSCON Keynote 2014 13 Minutes: Simon Wardley OSCON 2014 Keynote_Introduction to Value Chain Mapping MIS40680 – Week 9 Readings: Lee et al MISQe 2014 Rise of the CDO Parmar … Continue reading

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MIS40740 – Module Review & Assignments

Module Review covered following topics Scope….what are we going to implement Time….when and how long will it take Cost….how much will it cost HR….who is going to be involved Risk……addressing potential project risks Procurement….any 3rd party expertise needed? Quality….defining acceptable … Continue reading

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