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(THINKING) FOR THE DIGITAL ERA Volume 8, Number 3 November 2001 |
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"The most important, and indeed the unique, contribution of management in the 20' century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the manual worker in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21" century is similarly to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker." - Peter Drucker Hugh McKeller,
Executive Editor of KMWorld, used the quote by Peter Drucker to introduce
the Buyers' Guide, fall 2001 edition. Access, browse, and mine more than
1,000 companies listed in the fall Buyer's Guide that are involved in the
KM landscape at Also, access, browse and mine KMWorld White Papers: (a) Best Practices in Enterprise Content Management, (b) Best Practices in Enterprise Portals, (c) Best Practices in Enterprise Relationship Management, and (d) Best Practices in Enterprise Knowledge Management. (See March 2001 issue of the Strategic Planning newsletter for KM resources. Access instructions are on page 8). What KM
competencies and skills are required for e-commerce, e-diplomacy, and
e-learning? How can we apply KM concepts to improving Quality Of Life
(QOL) for more people worldwide? What applications of KM can be used
domestically and globally for peace, QOL, and security? How can we
co-create articulated curriculum and Career Development e-Paradigms online
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The new Office of
Homeland Security (OHS) has the challenge of coordination of disparate and
sometimes uncoordinated activities of 40 government agencies that
collectively spend $11 billion on anti?terrorism programs. How can OHS
coordinate agencies to (a) guard against cyberterrorism, (b) prepare for
biological and chemical warefare, (c) electronically pass along
information about potential terrorism, (d) collaborate with state
governments, and (e) educate the public on programs? What KM competencies
and skills are needed by Chief Information Officers (CIOs) within OHS?
What Career Development (CD) programs are needed to prepare techforces for
OHS and in states? What CD programs are needed for disaster recovery of
database backup systems and networks.
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Electronic Commerce (EC) emerged in the 1980s. Electronic Commerce Resource Centers (ECRCs) began to be funded by the U.S. government in 1991. However, an analysis of catalogs and strategic plans of higher education institutions and systems in 1995 did not reveal any mention of EC although AMP, FedEx, and many other corporations were already engaged in e-business. Analysis of EC in corporations led to presentations in 1996 and a series of EC learning units that fit within the Marketing Education program at several high schools in the Virginia Beach School District in 1997-98 (Barger). Electronic C1assRooms (ECRs) on EC and Information Technology (IT) were conducted along with activities related to analyses of competencies for new careers. The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), National Alliance of Business (NAB) and Education Development Center (EDC) completed a generic IT curriculum pathway. Although a useful generic IT curriculum model, it is only a base for curriculum for emerging roles. The Pennsylvania Governor's Schools of Excellence were expanded two years ago to include IT and within that framework participants could elect to concentrate on EC. Reports of these and other projects appear in newsletters along with conceptual frameworks (ie., see October, 2000). Although
necessary, these projects are insufficient to meet today's cyberforce
digital era needs. Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3)
created a Vision Quest (VQ Team to analyze evolving Electronic Networked
Communities (ENC) for seven topics, one of which was Career Development
(CD). Analysis of literature and research did not reveal CD ENC models.
Career Development e-Paradigms for Digital Dividends contains an analysis
of the application of technology in several countries and models. The
paper can be accessed at CD traditional school models consist of Awareness in early years, Exploration in middle years, and Specializations with Concentrations in secondary and postsecondary years (2+2, 4+4). Career Development Paradigm Conceptual Frameworks are displayed on page 3. Figure 1 is A Paradigm to Enhance Career Development Focused on Exploration and Specialization. Career Counseling Services and Curriculum Development Programs must be coordinated functions. Competency-based curriculum across multiple disciplines/subjects can yield high quality student learning outcomes focused on Critical Thinking Competencies and Problem Solving Skills. Figure 2 is A
Conceptual Framework for Advanced Specialization and Business
Concentrations. Early specializations could focus on market analysis,
manufacturing chains, distribution logistics (air, land, and sea), retail
or wholesale, and follow through like customer relations management.
Advanced specialization could include the competencies and skills of a
Chief Information Officer (CIO) or Knowledge Manager (KM) for an
establishment in an economy sector in manufacturing, or market analysis in
a region of the world such as Asia Pacific, or services in an economy
sector. Concentrations could be in market analysis of a country, like
Korea, or a specific product line. For example, the vision of
Kimberly-Clark is to have products in stores throughout the world. Imagine
the potential for "group computing learning communities" in multinational
students. Cognitive activities would include accessing, analyzing, and
redistributing information and then critiquing and using knowledge. Thus,
students could be prepared for a variety of emerging
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Career Development: Focus on Exploration and Specialization Chief
Information Officer (CIO) and Knowledge Manager
(KM)
Career Counseling Services Curriculum Development Programs
11-14 Advanced Specialization 9-10 Early Specialization 6-8 Advanced Exploration 4-5 Early Exploration Figure 1. A Paradigm to Enhance Career Development During Exploration and Specialization
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Chief
Information Officer (CIO) and Knowledge Manager
(KM)
Career Counseling Services Curriculum Development Programs
Figure 2. A Conceptual Framework for Advanced Specialization and Business Concentrations
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Access Research Companies - Yankee Group, Gartner Group, Forrester, Meta Group, IDC, + more. Electronic Commerce - EC World, Regional User Groups, associations, EC Product Center, +++ Middle Schools and High Schools Web sites in South Korea. STRATEGIC THINKING NEWSLETTERS A partial list of topics. Link directly to many Web sites for more detailed information. The October 2001 issue included comments about the following topics: Higher Education: A New Competitive Landscape - a list of articles in the September Syllabus some of which are elaborated upon in the newsletter such as "Higher Education in the Digital Age: Planning for an Uncertain Future" on page 2, "Scholarly Publishing in the 21st Century" with detail in "Online Electronic Journals" on page 3, and "Are e-Books Ready for the Classroom?" with a bibliography of e-Books on page 4. The Syllabus 2001 Conference will be in the Boston area. Nov. 29 - Dec. 2. Other topics on page 1 are The Voice Web and Future Doctors Go Digital at Stanford. Electronic Newsletters (ENs) available from InfoWorld are on page 4 with access details. Career Development for Peace, Quality Of Life, and Security is discussed on page 5. Resources, highlights of the October issue of World Trade, and Research Questions are on p. 7. The September
2001 issue included comments about the following
topics: The April
2001 issue focused on Career Development: Awareness, Exploration,
& Specialization. Each of the above-mentioned phases contained
examples used in papers written for the Preparing Tomorrow Teachers to Use
Technology (PT3) federal program in USDE.
The March. 2001 issue included the following partial list of topics with links to Web sites. The face of Knowledge Management (KM). Consumer-centric Knowledge Management (KM). Knowledge Managers. Optimizing mobile workforces. Agencies queue up for KM. Information hits the road. Digital dashboards. The new banking smart card. Planning for digital dividends. The struggle for e-quality. Logistics and transportation. Global markets. Globalization and digital era dividends. A program plan for Directed Study. February 2001 - a partial list of topics. Connections between scholars and policy and decision-makers quote by Stanley Ikenberry. National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. Scandinavian High-Tech. Telecomcities. Wired Towns. Online Technology Transfer. Incubators. EC Degree in jp. Enterprise Business Intelligence. Customer-Centric and Customer-Empowerment. Database Talking and Accessing the Internet With Your Voice. Globalization. Conceiving a Master Plan for Wireless. Technologies for Access. Wireless Teaching. E-Books. State Science and Technology Institute (SSTI). NSF Funding. Directed Study. January. 2001 - a partial list of topics. Globalization. Next Generation of E-Business. Overview of 13 EC graduate programs. Marketing and Wireless Devices. International Logistics. Customer effective e-services. Land's End is expanding full-service e-commerce Web sites. Graphic arts and printing. Advanced Technology Program (ATE) and Advanced Technology Education (ATE) at NSF. Venture Capital for Distance Education. Distance Courses Required of All Students. TIMSS - international comparison of math and all categories of science. A Higher Education Act (BEA) commission has recommended BROADBAND for education. December.
2000 November,
2000 October,
2000 September,
2000 August,
2000 July.
2000 June.
2000 May,
2000 Other documents and/or sets of slides available under "Course Documents" include: Putting It All
Together: Strategies for Program Assessment
Building Bridges Through Technology Linking Courses to
Practicums and Practicums to Courses.
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"It is our goal to design and perfect a CAREER DEVELOPMENT system that can be modeled in AAL and traditional formats that will be qualitatively superior to ad hoc services currently in use." A conceptual
framework for planning strategically for CD e-Paradigms for emerging
occupations: 2001-2002
2002-2003 2003-2004
2004-2005
Exploration
- middle years Specializations & Concentrations - articulated 4+4 secondary plus postsecondary years with roles. An abundance of primary and secondary resources can be accessed and browsed for possible inclusion in CD paradigms in AAL and traditional formats. An "Information Hailstorm" that was mentioned in the October issue of SP exists in all disciplines/subjects and most grade levels within Web sites, including "Kids" pages by.coms. Classroom teachers are mired in an overabundance of "stuff" and overwhelmed by the challenges of (a) fitting high quality information to curriculum standards, (b) articulating information vertically between grade levels and horizonally among the subjects, (c) creating culturally and developmentally appropriate learning units for their clientele, and (d) accountability - competency in student learning outcomes and often performance funding. Collaboration among business education, economics, and
other teachers on a set of criteria for mining high quality
information from primary and secondary sources is an essential first step.
Business specializations in Market Analysis (MA) in Asia Pacific (AP)
provides an example of primary and secondary resources that can be
accessed, browsed, and mined for learning units. Korean Primary Sources A
Center for Economic Information (CEI) provides up-to-date policy issues
information and publications by various economy-related government
ministries. http://epic.kdi.re.kr/home/english/index.html
Inchon Chamber of Commerce & Industa (ICCI) provides a unique opportunity. Inchon plans to evolve into an Asian commerce center via air, land, and sea http://icci.asiansources.com/ Daewoo Motor Co. is being acquired by General Motors Co. How can contemporary economic transitions be including in CD experiences? GM is pioneering Electronic Vehicles (EV). Could EV research in the U. S. be applied to cars produced in Korea and marketed in Asia Pacific? Inchon National
University of Education (INUE), largest of 11 universities elementary
teacher education, is integrating technology into teacher education
programs and a leader in the Koran Association of Information Education
(KAIE). Emergence of EC was presented to KAIE and discussed at INUE in
1997 and developmentally appropriate learning units in biometric, card,
voice, and wireless technologies were discussed with graduate students in
teacher education who were majoring in computer science at INUE in
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Taiwan and the U. S. have an extensive history of collaboration that extends from the liberation of the island in the mid 1940s through the current era. The Ministry Of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and the Ministry Of Education (MOE) are key Web sites. The MOEA site provides information about the economic status and five strategies for developing Taiwan into a high technology island. An Asia-Pacific Regional Operations Center (APROC) has a focus on developing Taiwan in the 21st century with a sound and vigorous economy, stable society, and highly educated workforce. APROC concentrates on six centers (a) Manufacturing Center, (b) Sea Transportation Center, (c) Air Transportation Center, (d) Financial Center, (e) Telecommunications Center, and (f) Media Center. "Trade is Taiwan's lifeblood. Taiwan firms have vast and wide-ranging investments in mainland China. A key area of the APROC plan is to establish between 20 and 30 intelligent industrial parks around the island ? 17 of which are under planning or development. With so many compelling reasons to draw them to Taiwan, 46 multinational companies have come and concluded strategic alliances, while 26 have opted to place operations centers on the island." Access | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career Development and International Education Kathryn A. Green
completed a dissertation about diagnosing needs and wants of foreign
people and the development of bulletin board pages in response to
specified wishes. Asians represent 76% of the foreign students from 46
different countries who are enrolled in this institution in California.
The largest number in order are from Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Korea.
Majors with the largest number of Asians are (a) marketing, international
business plus travel, tourism, and hotel management; (b) liberal arts; and
(c) computer science, Web design, and computer programming. Services
sought by Asians in interest rank order were (a) career information, (b)
tutoring, (c) career assessment and skills for future roles, and (d) job
description information. Career/Life Planning steps are available and
bulletin board pages were created for clientele from the United Arab
Emirates, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Kenya, Taiwan, and
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What country
information can be used for Career Development and International
Education? How can primary and secondary source information be organized
for CD and other purposes? What are the specifications of a Professional
Support Portal (PSP) for the support of CD? How can a Student Technology
Service (STS) support CD, Global Studies, & International Ed? How can
STS practicums prepare apprentice Knowledge Managers (KM) for various
roles? How can STS apprentice KMs at the college level preform "community
service" for credit? How can CD programs be created for the Human Genome
Project (see page 7 of this issue)? How can CD programs include options
for paradigms to promote peace, QOL, and security? How can collaborative
KM programs be created with countries like Korea, Taiwan, etc? How could
CD paradigms in traditional formats be converted to AAL
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E-Knowledge Management (KM) has taken center stage along with e-commerce and e-learning. Analysis of ECWorld, the ECWorld Buyer's Guide, and 80 sessions at EC World 2000 yields insights about EC content by economy sector, by business function spanning market analysis to e-Customer Relations Management, and topics such as "Bringing online communities together." How are higher education programs responding to these changes. A few examples are listed. "Knowledge Management is changing the way we work. Knowledge is the most valuable and powerful resource of our time. As the demands of today's workplace become increasingly complex, learning how to uncover, create and capture an organization's intellectual assets is key to success." A Graduate Diploma in Knowledge Management at Royal Roads University has KM 510 - Knowledge
Management Strategies for the Global Business
Environment http://www.royalroads.ca/
Wayne Huizenga Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship, Nova Southeastern University, offers the MBA, certificate, and specialization programs in eBusiness to corporations and professionals in Asia, the Caribbean, and throughout the U. S. The MBA eBusiness contains six seminars focused on EC and offered only online: http://emba.sbe.nova.edu/faq/eBusiness.htm GMP 5016 -
Managing e-Business University of Phoenix Online offers Bachelor of Science and Master of Business in E-Business. Bachelor of Science in Business with a Mayor in E-Business (a) EBUS 400 -
E-Business Master of Business Administration in E-Business (a) EBUS 500 -
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"KM is an ongoing process and a journey of continuous learning and improvement. KMWorld 2001...focuses on the equally important human and technology sides of KM, ...." "Knowledge Drivers
of the eEnterprise" features 16 preconference workshops; a keynote on "If
We Only Knew What We Know" by Carla O'Dell, president of the American
Productivity & Quality Center; 14 sessions in each of five tracks; an
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"The quiet revolutionary" is a story about Claire Fraser, president and director of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). TIGR was founded in 1992. Although the article has a comment on Dr. Fraser's "seminal" dissertation, the central focus traces a decade of evolution of TIGR. 1992: The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) is founded and begins .... 1993: TIGR's "Human Gene Anatomy" database .... 1994: TIGR begins sequencing Haemophilus influenzae, a bacterium that causes ear and .... 1995: Haemophilus influenzae becomes the first free-living organism .... Now, fast forward to 1999 and 2000. 1999: TIGR researchers sequence the genome of Deinococcus radiodurans, a bacterium with amazing power to resist radiation. TIGR scientists, studying Mycoplasma genitalium, a simple one-celled organism sequenced by TIGR researchers in 1995, also determined that 165 to 350 genes are the minimum number of genes needed for a bacterium to live. The research touches off an ethical debate on creating organisms from scratch. 2000: TIGR, collaborating with scientists from the United States, Europe, and Japan, determine the first complete genetic sequence of a plant, Arabidopsis Italiana. The sequencing is expected to provide new understanding of plant biology and possibly lead to ways to genetically engineer crops. TIGR also launches its collaboration with the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya to sequence Theileria, a parasite that causes East Coast Fever, which kills about 1 million cattle a year in Africa. Terry, Rob. "The
Quiet Revolutionary." Washington Techway, September 17, 2001,
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What content about
the Human Genome Project (HGP) should be in curriculum at what levels? How
can developmentally appropriate content about HGP be made available to
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Assume you have
the opportunity to create Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Knowledge
Manager (KM) certificate and degree programs for a dissertation. What
issues are relevant? What Research Questions could/should be the central
focus of problem solving methodologies? Joseph A. Gavin is developing a
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Access NEWSLETTERS AND BULLETIN BOARD PAGES Access Research Companies - Yankee Group, Gartner Group, Forrester, Meta Group, IDC, + more. Electronic Commerce - EC World, Regional User Groups, associations, EC Product Center, +++ Middle Schools and High Schools Web sites in South Korea. STRATEGIC THINKING NEWSLETTERS A partial list of topics. Link directly to many Web sites for more detailed information. The October 2001 issue included comments about the following topics: Higher Education: A New Competitive Landscape - a list of articles in the September Syllabus some of which are elaborated upon in the newsletter such as "Higher Education in the Digital Age: Planning for an Uncertain Future" on page 2, "Scholarly Publishing in the 21st Century" with detail in "Online Electronic Journals" on page 3, and "Are e-Books Ready for the Classroom?" with a bibliography of e-Books on page 4. The Syllabus 2001 Conference will be in the Boston area. Nov. 29 - Dec. 2. Other topics on page 1 are The Voice Web and Future Doctors Go Digital at Stanford. Electronic Newsletters (ENs) available from InfoWorld are on page 4 with access details. Career Development for Peace, Quality Of Life, and Security is discussed on page 5. Resources, highlights of the October issue of World Trade, and Research Questions are on p. 7. The September
2001 issue included comments about the following
topics: The April
2001 issue focused on Career Development: Awareness, Exploration,
& Specialization. Each of the above-mentioned phases contained
examples used in papers written for the Preparing Tomorrow Teachers to Use
Technology (PT3) federal program in USDE.
The March. 2001 issue included the following partial list of topics with links to Web sites. The face of Knowledge Management (KM). Consumer-centric Knowledge Management (KM). Knowledge Managers. Optimizing mobile workforces. Agencies queue up for KM. Information hits the road. Digital dashboards. The new banking smart card. Planning for digital dividends. The struggle for e-quality. Logistics and transportation. Global markets. Globalization and digital era dividends. A program plan for Directed Study. February 2001 - a partial list of topics. Connections between scholars and policy and decision-makers quote by Stanley Ikenberry. National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. Scandinavian High-Tech. Telecomcities. Wired Towns. Online Technology Transfer. Incubators. EC Degree in jp. Enterprise Business Intelligence. Customer-Centric and Customer-Empowerment. Database Talking and Accessing the Internet With Your Voice. Globalization. Conceiving a Master Plan for Wireless. Technologies for Access. Wireless Teaching. E-Books. State Science and Technology Institute (SSTI). NSF Funding. Directed Study. January. 2001 - a partial list of topics. Globalization. Next Generation of E-Business. Overview of 13 EC graduate programs. Marketing and Wireless Devices. International Logistics. Customer effective e-services. Land's End is expanding full-service e-commerce Web sites. Graphic arts and printing. Advanced Technology Program (ATE) and Advanced Technology Education (ATE) at NSF. Venture Capital for Distance Education. Distance Courses Required of All Students. TIMSS - international comparison of math and all categories of science. A Higher Education Act (BEA) commission has recommended BROADBAND for education. December.
2000 November,
2000 October,
2000 September,
2000 August,
2000 July.
2000 June.
2000 May,
2000 Other documents and/or sets of slides available under "Course Documents" include: Putting It All
Together: Strategies for Program Assessment
Building Bridges Through Technology Linking Courses to Practicums and Practicums to Courses. Publications cited in the newsletters, but by no means the only ones, include the following: Card
Technology CIO
Insight Converge eAI
Journal EC
World EDUCAUSE Field Force
Automation Exchange &
Outlook Electronic
Publishing Government
Technology Group
Computing Human Genome Mg
Info System Information
Week Intelligent
Enterprise Internet
World Knowledge
Management KMWorld Mbusiness Newslink (Federal
Labs) Online
Learning Print On
Demand Speech Technology
Magazine Syllabus Training varBusiness World
Trade Electronic
Newsletters (ENs) are listed in newsletters with directions for
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newsletters, click on "External Links," "The Friendly Forum," "The
Friendly Forum: Class Discussion." Browse Asia Society, Globalization and
the Family of IT Careers, Taiwan, Korea, etc. Access a few of the links.
Consider requesting one the Asia Society Electronic Newsletters. Analyze
competencies and skills from some of the "Family of IT Careers" links.
Analyze "Taiwan" - Ministry Of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and Ministry of
Education (MOE). See Groff, W. Strategic Planning (Thinking) for the
Digital Era, 1999. ERIC - ED 432 932.
Warren H.Groff,
3408 N. 49' St., Milwaukee, WI 53216?3208, (414) 871-1127,
groffw@nova.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A few of the Web
Sites in the March Issue:
KMWorld Knowledge
Management Group
Computing Field Force
Automation Mbusiness Exchange &
Outlook EC
World Card
Technology Converge Information
Week Intelligent
Enterprise Internet
World |