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Blog postIntroduction I’ve learned over the last six months about the challenges associated with teaching ambitious survey courses. Introduction to Information Systems certainly qualifies. In short, professors cover a great deal of material at a rapid pace. As a result, we don’t spend a great deal of time on any given topic.1 In other words, survey courses by definition trade depth for breadth—a tension that’s not always easy for professors to navigate.
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On February 4, 2009, I released Why New Systems Fail. My first foray into long-form publishing started with a whimper, not a bang. For five long months, very little happened around the book despite my promotional efforts and those of my pricey PR firm at the time.
To be fair, a book recommending ways to avoid failures on new system implementations from a relatively unknown independent consultant coul
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Blog postMy 2013 book Too Big to Ignore is now available as an unabridged audiobook. In a nutshell, it outlines the contours of Big Data and, as its subtitle suggests, makes the business case for it.
A Few Reflections on Book #5 No, Too Big to Ignore wasn’t a bestseller but it did earn out fairly quickly.1 I suspect that that’s because it arrived early to the Big-Data party. What’s more, although many of the technologies that I discuss i
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Blog postSince graduating from Carnegie Mellon in December of 1993, I have remained involved at my alma mater. For instance, the alumni newsletter interviewed me about Big Data in February of 2013. The next year, I spoke at CMU’s Silicon Valley campus about The Visual Organization, my book on data visualization. I hosted a webinar for the CMU Alumni Association in 2015 on why business communication typically fails. Finally, I’ve interview
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Blog postIntroduction Last semester, I taught Introduction to Information Systems – Honors for the first time. CIS236 students typically major in finance, accounting, supply chain, entrepreneurship, and marketing. Put differently, they don’t study information systems, let along programming. As such, plenty of students asked me throughout the semester why they needed to learn the rudiments of Python and Structured Query Language.
Below are my most common responses.
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Blog postIntroduction Upon a friend’s recommendation, I recently checked out Hasan Minhaj’s new Netflix show Patriot Act. In a word, it’s excellent. The Daily Show alumnus fuses political satire, scathing commentary, humor, and interactive data visualizations in a way that his counterparts just don’t.
After bingeing the seven-episode series, I started thinking about lessons that he offers to college professors. It turns out that there are quite a few.
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Blog postIntroduction I’ve been in a particularly contemplative mood as of late. Thank the winter break. Over the last few weeks, I’ve thought about what I’ve accomplished so far in my teaching career and what remains. Today, I’ll write about the two biggest highlights of this past year.
A Belated Thank-You In my analytics capstone course, students are seniors and I let them select their own individual research projects. Sure, I approve their topics after they submit five-page proposals early -
Blog postIntroduction Back when I started writing books in 2008, I largely ignored whether academics cited my work—much less how often. In the whole scheme of things, it just didn’t seem to matter at the time. This feeling continued well into 2014. Although I knew that a decent number of schools used some of my previous texts, I was writing largely for professional audiences, not academic ones.
As I began my career as a college professor, though, my curiosity started to grow. Was my work reso -
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Blog postAround this time a quarter century ago, I graduated from Carnegie Mellon although I walked in May of 1994.
Twenty-five years is a long time. On many levels, today I barely recognize the young man who wore that cap and gown.
As I celebrate that anniversary, in this post I’ll reflect on the most important things that I picked up during my time at CMU and how they have helped me throughout my career.
Facility with Technology As the saying goes, at Carnegie Mellon even the -
Blog postIntroduction I just wrapped my fifth semester teaching at ASU. On many levels, it was quite the different experience. Most germane to today’s post, for the first time I didn’t teach my normal capstone courses.1 Instead, I taught a survey course: Introduction to Information Systems (Honors).
Professors can manage capstone courses in several ways. I choose the method that requires the most work for me but the greatest benefit for my students. This entails hunting down people and organi -
Blog postIntroduction when I decided to become a college professor, I knew that I’d still be able to retain much of the flexibility that I enjoyed as an independent speaker, writer, and advisor. Make no mistake: Being an effective professor requires a great deal of time and effort. Those who think that doing the job right entails just showing up to give a lecture are delusional. Still, my lifestyle allows things outside of work that give me a sense of balance—and reading is one of them.
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Blog postMy full-time teaching schedule keeps me pretty busy. At the same time, though, I try to contribute to ASU in other ways. It’s a core tenet of my teaching philosophy. Today I’m pleased to report some good news. Before I do, though, here’s a little background.
Project Background In July of 2017, my boss approached me about managing a project for Chemonics and I immediately said yes. In a nutshell, the project entailed building a database to track logistics and shipping data from Af -
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