toim strategy december 2016
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TOIM MeetingBala Iyer
December 2016
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Agenda• Advisory board update• D&C Update• Research Impact – Who is your target and how do you know you have
impact?• SME2041• Accounting Information Systems• Hiring
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Advisory board• CIO, EMC• CTO, Fidelity• CTO, Partners Healthcare• Global leader, IBM• GM, Xively• Program VP, IDC• Editor, CIO magazine• President, Mobiquity• Partner, Wellington Management
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Goal• To be a top ranked TOIM department in the NE region• Make TOIM concentrations the most sought after in the college• Prepare our students to be “ready” for work – digital innovators• Bridge physical/digital products
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Way to get there• Stakeholder focus (student experience)
• More choice – 2 CR electives and Blended• Skill-based and conceptual• Tech Day and Hackathons
• Intellectual vitality• Blogs, LinkedIn and traditional articles• Brand building on Twitter, YouTube and Website• Research and teaching talks• Experimentation (Experimental College)
• Integrate with Boston Tech Ecosystem• Internships, research, teaching and consulting• Advisory board
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Research– feedback• Closing the talent gap• Small business as a research topic (e.g., impact of digital technologies) to leverage
Babson’s SME network (Sara)• The issue of creating sustainable relevance in the IoT Ecosystem (Sandip)• Digital governance• Monetization of data – data packaging and pricing (proposed to explore Under
Armour)• Retention of IT/Analytics staff• Suggestion: offer (engineer/obtain and release) data sets and offer them to startups
trying to build/test analytics models (Judah)• Suggestion: approach Mass Challenge and the Society for Information Management
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Potential research partners• IBM• PTC• Accenture – High Performance Institute• Encored• Verizon• Craig Benson grant• DesignZone• IoT Lab
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Research -- future• Be a thought leader• Consider writing blogs• Use the ecosystem for case studies• Look at opportunities in IoT• Our influencers should write our story
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Partnerships• Off campus. Get out of campus in a variety of ways and integrate into
Boston Business Ecosystem.• Babson company track. Field trip with students for them to learn about the
company/startup story and have close interactions with top management. (CCD already does this for grad school).• Hackathons: These could be theme-based around a challenge (e.g., IoT use
cases, mobile apps for healthcare, digital assistants).• HubSpot, SAP, HP organized events (around a theme – such as inbound
marketing, cognitive computing).
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Partnerships• ON campus. Bring talent to Boston campus. We should take advantage of
the Boston ideal location.• Who does large innovative companies like Google bring to teach their employees?
Who could be guest lecturers?• On campus. Use Boston campus as a place to showcase Babson vitality to the
area (e.g., Babson “pop-ups” highlighting student or faculty projects).• On campus Organize something like Babson Entrepreneurship Forum as Babson
Technology, Operations and Innovation Forum, or CLTP.• Offer area innovators a valuable experience at Babson - Join CLTP events.• Expand Babson Tech network• Partnership with WPI. (not just MIT who already has a lot of partners).
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Teaching feedback• Teach concepts with tools• Get students “work ready”• Startup institute course work
• Product management• UX/UI with usability testing• Field trip course• Do more with the boot camp idea
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Teaching future• Continue innovating – two credit electives• Boot camp refinement• Look for joint BEE opportunities• Consider edX• Videos to market electives• Build bench strength• Use the ecosystem and bring experts to class
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Conclusions• Good year.• New courses• More concentrators• Revving up the research engine• More collaboration• Please engage and be team players• Define what we mean by impact• Establish DesignZone and IoT• Make more connections with ecosystem• PREPARE for review meetings• Others?