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[9 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]

Well it is a little while after I finished classes for the summer now, and infact for the course. Now down to me and I knwo I have got a mountain of work infront of me that needs completing. The true question is how will I get this done and how will I organise my time.
I am starting to think that I need to base this on habit rather than need and therefore propose that each Sunday morning I will do some reading / research / writting / exploring into …

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[10 May 2009 | No Comment | ]

I went to see someone at LSBU today, an academic supervisor no less.
We spoke for a quite a while and he has managed to instil some focus on this whole exercise. Essentially we went back to basics and said, what is web technology, what is its application and how can that be used. Then what are the outcomes to the business and how is this percieved from the view of the staff, organisation and customers. If we survey or interview from here and analyse we can start to map out …

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[3 May 2009 | No Comment | ]

Just a quick update here… thought still is, would investigating SSM or Socio Technical aspects. I think that this would defintely be an interesting avenue and allow me to look at the technology from yet another viewpoint… which must do me some good. The blundering question still is how this is all going to fit into a dissertation. Hopefully I will go and talk about this with a supervisor at LSBU soon as struggling is definately a word I can relate to at the moment and I need to get …

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[26 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]

Ok here we go… up the steps. LSBU have contacted me and asked me to write some thoughts on my dissertation so instead of my usual online colum I think that it would be better for me to write up some emails in here:
email one
Thanks for the insight, certainly something to think about. I will give the dissertation some thought over the next few days (especially as it is the MBA residential this week) and write up an email on Monday.
You are right, it is still very vague which is …

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[12 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]
Back into the world of business databases

I havent followed the last post too tightly but thought I would see what academic papers I could find that would support my ideas of Web Tech providing a competitive advantage. I have started with some of Porters as per the other HBR and gone forth to see what more recent work I can find. Again im finding it slightly limited and its difficult without much guidance but hopefully its coming together… at least a little bit.