Session 8: Technology, Organizations, and Leadership.  Keeping up with Technology.

SESSION 8 TOPICS Reports on class projects and guest presentation. Implications of technology and rapid technological change for leaders Class discussion on strategies for keeping up with technological change--and keeping issues in perspective Review of what has worked for the class and what needs to be changed the next time the course is offered.

Major Class Assignment
Presentations of final reports on the Technology, Organizations, and Leadership Projects.  Information about reports should be posted to the Discussion board by April 4. 

UCLA Professor and Net Pioneer Paves the Way for the Next Big Thing: Getting ready for the era of ubiquitouscomputing.  from the February 18, 2000 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education [http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i24/24a05301.htm]

Cluetrain Manifesto [http://www.cluetrain.com/index.html]

The Postmodernity of Cyberspace, Adrian Mihalache [http://www.spark-online.com/october00/discourse/mihalache.html]

Lifescapes of the Future:  Living and Learning in the 21st Century by Brigitte Jordan
(on electronic reserve-Blackboard.  Share your thoughts and suggestions for improving this paper with the author gjordan@parc.xerox.com)

 

GUEST PRESENTER, on Organizations and Technology
Short hands-on activitiesPlanning your next computer system
The difference between what you want and what you need.  Issues of cost, compatibility, and the newest toys. Shelly, Cashman, Waggoner and Waggoner, Discovering Computers 2001 p. 8.37-8-44,
For access to product reviews, ZD Net [http://www.zdnet.com/]
Dell Higher Education home page [http://www.dell.com/us/en/hied/default.htm]

Links to discount computer retailers
[http://netseller.com/]
[http://www.alltronics.com/]
[http://www.insight.com/cgi-bin/bp/web/gdirect.html]

Buying meta-site with price guide
[http://shopper.cnet.com/]