Mike Crandal, The Information School,
- Was reading “The Worlds is Flat” by Thomas Friedman when writing this presentation
- Changing landscape in our world and how it’s impacting organizations of all types
- Between dot com bust & today Google went from 150 searches per day to over one billion per day, only 1/3 coming from within the
- Global internet usage went up 125 from 2000 to 2004
- The Great Sorting Out
- Where do companies (libraries) start and stop
- From command and control to collaborate and connect
- Multiple identity disorder
- Who owns what?
- Death of the salesman
- UPS DIAD (Delivery Information Acquisition Device)
- What we’re up against
- What we know about IT projects
- More likely to be unsuccessful than successful
- About one in five projects is likely to be full satisfaction
- Larger projects more likely to fail
- Relying on explicit knowledge is important
- Tacit knowledge is weaker
- Why is this happening?
- Avoid focusing on technology
- Look at the larger structures
- The organization
- Relationships
- Change in direction?
- Drastic fall in CS enrolment
- Reflection of the changing climate (dot com bust scared people)
- Who will fill the void in building high quality information systems and services?
- A possible solution?
- Reconsider our educational processes
- Rapid convergence of technologies
- Bring in from other disciplines
- Linguistics
- Anthropology
- Social sciences left on the side
- What’s to be Done?
- Emphasize more generic forms of learning rather than specific preoccupational skills
- Value of collaboration
- Ability of collaborate
- Problem solving
- Information Schools
- Integration of people, technology, management and policy
- Many disciplines all pointing to information in the center
- Technology is only one part
- All parts are as important as each other
- i-Conference 2005,
- Curriculum
- Programming
- distributed computing
- networking
- info systems
- organizations
- database management
- info analysis
- systems analysis
- telecommunications
- info policy
- The Core Competencies (
- Info resources
- Info management
- Info access
- Info systems & technologies
- Research
- Info policy
- Specializations
- Lib mgt
- E-government
- Comp intelligence
- Human-computer ineteraction
- Web design
- Info architecture
- Taxonomy management
- Info retrieval
- Security
- Etc…
- Real-world Orientation
- Project-based study
- Teamwork
- Active learning
- Internships
- Capstone projects
- Integrate theory into practice in real-life environment
- UW iSchools
- Enrollment projections shown
- Numbers going steadily up
- UW iSchool
- Demographic numbers
- 2004 – male/female 50/50
- 2005 – male/female 38/62
- 2005 day program – male/female 11/63
- Not just libraries are hiring their graduates
- Boeing
- Microsoft
- Federal Loan Banks
- Non-Profits
- Untouchables
- Workers who are special
- … specialized
- … anchored
- … readily adaptable
- iSchools are producing the untouchables for the information age
- there will always only be a few “specials” but iSchools produce people that are the other three
I am impressed by your approach. It is a wake up call and an alarm for the ISchools who facilitate mass production of would be untouchables!
My humble question is: Are our professional gurus so unrealistic?