Comments on: I’ve Got Class (Starting Next Week)

By: pixbook

pixbook — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:04:17 +0000

sir i have some difficulties to attend your class. Will you please tell me how can i find the videos of your class???

By: Beijing Tour

Beijing Tour — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:15:13 +0000

Great post, what you said is really helpful to me. I can't agree with you anymore. I have been talking with my friend about, he though it is really interesting as well. Keep up with your good work, I would come back to you.

By: The Good and Bad Kinds of Crowds : Andrew McAfee’s Blog

The Good and Bad Kinds of Crowds : Andrew McAfee’s Blog — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:35:16 +0000

[...] to this post This past week I rolled out a couple Enterprise 2.0-ish experiments in my MBA Class Managing in the Information Age. First, I attempted to use crowd wisdom to outsmart my students. Second, I let them form their own [...]

By: water powered cars

water powered cars — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:27:46 +0000

It has been arround 5 months you must have started your classes of MIA. I would love to be part of such course, the topics which you were about to cover are pretty good and new. I am very much interested in such kind of sessions but i know it is not possible for me to attend such sessions as i am not doing MBA from anywhere and just a Engineering Graduate from India. I will appreciate if you can send me (to my mail id given) some links which are helpfull to learn MIA atleast to some extent as i am working in a IT MNC. Thanks in advance.

By: Dog Allergies

Dog Allergies — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:44:13 +0000

There are many colleges and universities that offer free courses online in the form of podcasts, blogs, tutorials and full-blown online classes. Most of these courses, while extremely smart-making, will NOT award any college credits or degrees.

By: Martha

Martha — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:51:37 +0000

Hi, good post, It sounds attractive fascinating and engaging. If I obtained the occasion to focus the course, I would not suspect about it.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:12:46 +0000

I would love for you to elaborate on Cisco and them getting in trouble for liking tech too much.

Also, what kind of impact do you think Web 2.0 is going to have on the internet? Is it mostly hype or something I need to study up on?

Thanks!

By: Anne Pauker-Kreitzberg

Anne Pauker-Kreitzberg — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:20:37 +0000

Super letter — I’m very curious to learn how many takers you get. In 2001 we thought we had come up with a super idea: provide workshops to managers on what we called “technology fluency.” Great idea, bad timing? Who knows; we weren’t very successful.

We thought for sure that executives would jump at a chance to expand beyond knowing enough buzz words to get through a meeting. As you point out, surely they’ve got to realize the clear advantages this would provide. As technology competes with people to be a company’s biggest asset, who wouldn’t want to be able to make better investments in technology and better decisions about CIOs and IT, in general.

Managers can’t continue to take a pass. Gen X, Y and Millenials combined aren’t the easy answer. Just because somebody is comfortable using web or business applications doesn’t mean they have any better mental model of how to invest millions of technology dollars or how it can be successfully leveraged.

One thought I’d like to suggest is this. Beyond a better understanding of technology and what it can do, managers need to have a much better understanding of how technologists see the world, how they work, what their challenges are, and what they need to be good partners. BTW, technologists need to boost their tolerance for people who don’t understand technology in the same way they do. Working through business analysts translators is just a work-around. Perhaps you could run the same kind of course in reverse, for techies.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:20:28 +0000

As one of Intellipedia’s lead users and trainers, it’s pretty cool to see the fruits of our labor used as a case study. It’s also satisfying that we (the intelligence community) are not playing catch-up like we often do in government when it comes to the application of new technologies and the socialization of broad use.

It’s important to note that Intellipedia works well with the other social software services like blogs and social bookmarks. Document storage services that create links to static files and instant messaging are also important to the “Intellipedia” effort.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:11:59 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Will any of the course materials be available online as part of iTunesU or similar? It looks like it will be a fascinating course.

Regards,

Mark