Blogpost 8

Week 10: IT Governance – a Case Study of Australian Universities

The Hicks, Oervan & Oeriin (2012) reading on Blackboard is about IT governance at Australian universities. It identifies a number of significant issues that arose as a result of the “unplanned evolution” at eight universities.

From the issues identified, which do you think is the most significant and why? 

If you were the CIO of a university that was facing this issue, how would you go about addressing it?

Blogpost 7

The Novopay Business case is in this week's readings on Blackboard.

Look over Item 4, "Drivers for Change" (in Part 1) and Item 5 "Options Available" (in Part 2). 

If you were a Ministry official charged with approving this business case, would you approve it? (why/why not?) How would you go about deciding?

What kind of challenges does the business case present? (The Ministerial Inquiry is also there for those who are interested)

Blogpost 6

Social Media and Porter’s Five Forces

Explain how the rise of YouTube has changed the power of the media production industry using one of Porter’s Five Forces.

Has this change been positive or negative for the industry and why?

Blogpost 5

Predictive Analytics

This week's readings provide three very different examples of the use of predictive analytics. With reference to one or more of these examples,

i) Outline one issue OR one benefit that the growing use of predictive analytics presents you with as a citizen or customer.

ii) What does this mean for you?