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Dec

2011

MIT launches online learning initiative

"MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform"

web.mit.edu/...education-initiative-1219.html

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MIT learning education experience

organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace
feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication
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- allow for the individual assessment of any student’s work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITx
- MIT expects that this learning platform will enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences.
- MIT also expects that MITx will eventually host a virtual community of millions of learners around the world.
- An open infrastructure will facilitate research on learning technologies and also enable learning content to be easily portable to other educational platforms that will develop. In this way the infrastructure will improve continuously as it is used and adapted.

Nov

2011

People And Culture Are The Biggest Barriers To Digital Transformation

"New research just released by Capgemini/MIT reveals that two-thirds of global enterprise companies are failing to evolve into digital enterprises. According to the report, people and culture are the biggest barriers to digital transformation."

www.fastcompany.com/...iers-to-digital-transformation

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culture transformation change disruption study capgemini MIT IT

slick marketers have brainwashed senior execs into thinking that the path to digital transformation is a disruptive, revolutionary path, rather than an evolutionary process.
If the IT marketing people are to be believed, senior execs need to rip out their existing mission-critical tools like email and documents, and replace them with relatively unproven technologies such as blogs, wikis, and allied next-generation tools.
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- This is not digital transformation, but digital disruption, and it only serves to alienate managers and their staff
- In the history of innovation, the "revolutionary" approach often fails, because it doesn’t take the human factor into account.
- In lieu of a rip-and-replace strategy, companies should to take baby steps by building on the tools your organization already ha
- By minimizing the need for workers to change their work habits, while mitigating the financial risk in investing in new and unproven technologies, a fail-safe methodology for embracing the digital transformation can be created
- The psychology of evolutionary change is far more productive than a "rip and replace" approach

Jun

2009

Putting a Price on Social Connections

Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production

www.businessweek.com/...tc2009047_031301.htm

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MIT IBM socialnetworks value connections

Researchers at IBM Research and MIT's Sloan School of Management found that the average e-mail contact was worth $948 in revenue. To unearth that and other data, they used mathematical formulas to analyze the e-mail traffic, address books, and buddy lists of 2,600 IBM consultants over the course of a year.
To be sure, not all networking yields dividends. The IBM-MIT study found that consultants with weak ties to a number of managers produced $98 per month less than average. Why? Those employees may move more slowly as they process "conflicting demands from different managers," the study's authors write. They suffer from "too many cooks in the kitchen."