Well it’s happened.  My university has taken the information systems lectures and given them to accounting and the other to ICT.  As a parting shot I offer the following:

The future of business informatics

This lecture is one of the best I have had the pleasure to give.  It came mainly from Alison Ruth. In a really neat way it emphasises how technology has become a part of our culture to the extent where disciplines like Informatics/Information Systems have gradually faded out of thought.  I really like how it shows us the growing themes of technology and how new trends are emerging.   But by the time you read this paragraph this will be out of date!

The thing I love so much about this lecture is that you really shows you how much technology has impacted and indeed become embedded in our lives.  You can’t even say, ‘Change Management’ without thinking about it.  It’s amazing to me that Business Schools all over Australia are leaving their IT up to ICT departments without at least thinking about the role IT plays in governance, policy and management.  Why is this?  It’s puzzling.

The final analysis though can be found from the Kodak video.  Look at the things they have done to transform their brand and how did they do it?  Through social media of course.  I will leave whoever of you read this to ponder the meanings of these things while I scramble around to reinvent my career.   What will happen in the future?  More stuff no doubt.  This time next year who knows where I will be… probably here typing another blog post for y’all.   I like what is on the final part of the prezi:

What will we be teaching in 5 years?

Well it won’t be business informatics to postgraduate students at Griffith University anymore… which is a shame.

Enjoy… I did.  R.I.P. Business Informatics.

I am growing tired of a lot of things lately dammit.  Here’s one of them:

The people in charge of our internet.

As an Australian academic who teaches information policy to international students I find this kind of rant from our senator embarrassing.  I mean really, attacking Google over a mistake with wifi data?   Then going on to say that it was a breach of privacy?  Anyone who has been around computers long enough knows how easy it is to get access to free wifi.  I wonder, where these networks secured and do the people who own them even know they were secured?  WHO KNOWS?

The students in my information policy class last night discussed this and came up with much better interpretations than the present person sitting in the job.  Even though I took the time to consider the internet filter and other issues… I think I can safely say that this man doesn’t represent me at all.  He keeps saying and doing things that boggle the mind.

Ok the rant is over for now.