1 Reinforcing the “I” in IT Education Ronald L. Larsen School of Information Sciences Copyright Ronald L. Larsen 2004. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.
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Reinforcing the “I” in IT Education
Ronald L. Larsen
School of Information Sciences
Copyright Ronald L. Larsen 2004. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.
It’s not about the technology… it’s about the business.
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• Information professionals need better understanding of business issues but remain rooted in technology practices, theory, design, and development
• IT must emerge from from a low cost, “back office” provider of technology (commodities) to a value-add, customer service-oriented provider of information solutions
• Information professionals must become knowledge workers, with a combination of business, technical, analytical, and leadership skills
• IT must have high end skill sets that are not subject to commoditization and off-shoring
General (New Hire) Requirements
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Directional Trends in future IT in Alcoa From: To:
• IT: Information Technology IS: Information Services• Low Cost Hi-value, hi-customer service, low cost• Programmers Business technologists• Siloed business functions Integrated business processes• Systems Analyst Systems Integrator• IT Project Manager Business Project Manager• Information Systems Information Solutions• Technology focused Business value focused• “Reports to Controller” “Seat at the table”• Cost of IT Business of IS• CMMI Level 1/2 CMMI Level 3+• IT Oriented Metrics Business oriented metrics• Data Management Business Intelligence/Business Value• IT Account management Customer relationship management• Siloed and disparate systems Common integrated systems• Decentral organization Central organization
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Directional Trends yield Grand Opportunities*
• The way we communicate
• The way we deal with
information
• The way we learn
• The practice of health care
• The nature of commerce
• The nature of work
• How we design and build things
• How we conduct research
• Our understanding of the
environment
• Government services and
information
* PITAC National Challenge Transformations
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Grand Opportunitiesrequire strong foundations
• Digital Object Infrastructure– Naming, persistence, authentication
