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MIS40650 – Emerging Modes of Organising Work and their Implications

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Tarun Rattan

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

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Tarun Rattan

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 – ICT and Knowledge Working in Practice

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Tarun Rattan

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’

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Tarun Rattan

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?

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Tarun Rattan

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

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Tarun Rattan

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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