Saturday, September 09, 2006
Imagine if IT Management ran universities...
The lack of strong technical leadership amongst IT executives is crippling corporate America. Just to think that many of them will retire and desire to teach curse our university systems...
If today's IT management ran universities, the following would happen:
| | View blog reactionsIf today's IT management ran universities, the following would happen:
- Students would not be punished for plaigarism, in fact it would be encouraged especially if it came from industry analyst firms
- Professors wouldn't expect students to write thesis but instead distill down their ideas into a couple of paragraphs
- Computer Science majors would actually not bother with learning technology but instead spend time aligning with the business majors.
- Computer Science majors would outsource all software development to India. After all, who needs to know how to program?
- Computer Science majors would not even need to know UML. All architectures would be presented in Powerpoint with no more than six bullets on each slide
- At the end of the semester, you wouldn't actually receive a grade but a copy of a computer science competency model with all of the areas you so called need to improve in
- The student that didn't bother to do homework and instead worked on influencing all their instructors would be promoted to head of class