Story telling presentations

You only have 5 minutes to present.
Think like a TedTalk presenter.

Some strategies that may or may not work for you...

• Focus on story telling for the presentation.
• Perhaps focus on illustrating your key findings in some memorable and distinctive way.
• Perhaps try fewer slides
• Perhaps put some of the text into your speech rather than on the slides.
• Perhaps focus on your key findings; they may relate to the case data or they may relate to the method you employed, or you may wish to cover both.

Globalisation, changing trade, industry, purchasing

Speculating on the future of globalisation shifting to localisation. Shawn Donnan, FT. (link)

Telecoms improvements draw distant cities nearer (FT article - access/registration needed)

From the FT Big Read article http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bb7b77d8-c347-11e4-ac3d-00144feab7de.html

{Hertshten Group, has quietly broken into the top ranks of traders on global derivatives bourses in Chicago, London and Frankfurt. Yet few of its 700 employees live anywhere near these financial centres. Most are in emerging and frontier markets such as India, China, Kenya and Mauritius, as well as Israel. Most still execute orders with a manual mouse click even as rivals are investing millions to shave microseconds off trades... 

Its success shows how the offshoring that began with manufacturing and services is now encroaching on the diehard capitalists of the western trading industry. “Jobs that are disappearing in Chicago are appearing in Nairobi,” says a US-based trading executive.}
(link)

Research project tips

Some tips for your research project when gathering data.

• Remember to keep your eyes open to implications of digital, virtual, digitally mediated processes.
• Innovation also takes many forms, a business process, an understanding, a perspective, or something you discover by looking a contrasts or finding something you didn't expect to see.
• Changes are particularly illuminating particularly if unexpected. But so too are continuities and stability, particularly if they're unexpected too (like avoiding or resisting change or "innovation" for some reason).

Prepare research papers "as if" to submit to ICIS 2015

Exercise: Prepare a first draft using whatever you have (in shared folder here)
Pointers on structure and grading criteria here.

ICIS 2015 call for papers is online (see http://icis2015.aisnet.org).

The 2015 conference theme is “Exploring the Information Frontier.”
Research tracks include:

• Conference Theme Track: Exploring the Information Frontier
• Breakout Ideas in IS
• Decision Analytics and Support
• E-Business and E-Government
• Economics and Value of IS
• General IS Topics
• Human Behavior in IS
• Human-Computer Interaction
• IS Curriculum and Education
• IS Design and Business Process Management
• IS Governance and Control
• IS in Healthcare
• IS Security and Privacy
• IS Strategy and Organizational Impacts
• IS Theory Development and Use
• IT Adoption and Use
• Managing IS Projects and IS Development
• Methodological and Philosophical Foundations of IS
• Panels
• Practice-oriented Research
• Social Media and Digital Collaborations
• Sustainability and Societal Impacts of IS

Conference Co Program Chairs are: Cathy Urquhart, Armin Heinzl and Traci Carte

Bringing Business Back

This video piece on BBC's World News channel illustrates how emotionally loaded and contested the field of outsourcing is. It also highlights some of the unexpected unforeseen consequences of broad outsourcing strategies, in this case the seeming permanent loss of knowledge and skills from society.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31447904
A longer version (30") on BBC News Channel, the "Our World" programme, titled "Bringing Business Back" by reporter Natalia Antelava, flmed and edited by David Botti.

The video follows Antelava as she "travels across the US and to India to investigate whether the tide is turning on one of the biggest trends in globalisation - the outsourcing of work from the rich to the developing world."

Alumnus sets up sourcing enterprise based in Vietnam

An Alumnus of our programme has gathered a team of people and set up a sourcing enterprise based in Vietnam. Their web presences are http://outsourcewith.me, https://facebook.com/outsourcewithme and https://twitter.com/outsourcewithme.

Started in 2014 they plan on growing the business and expanding the range of outsourcing services on offer.

Wishing them all the best for the future.

Allen