Syllabus Review Session IEM5010 Leading and Managing Technology Implementation

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Syllabus Review Session IEM5010 Leading and
Managing Technology Implementation

• Paul E. Rossler, Ph.D., P.E.
• paul.rossler_at_okstate.edu

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Overview

• About the instructor
• Course administration and learning objectives
• Assignments
• Instructors teaching philosophy and expectations
  

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About the Instructor

• Paul E. Rossler, Ph.D., P.E.
• Associate Professor, IEM
• Director, ETM Program
• Ph.D. from Virginia Tech
• Licensed professional engineer
• 20 years work experience, much of it in
  performance management and group processes

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Course Website

• okstate.edu/ceat/msetm/courses/iem5010LMTI/

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About Yourself

• Please send an e-mail that includes the following
  information
• Name, where you work, what you do there
• Preferred e-mail address
• Brief description of any experiences that you
  have had with new technology implementation
• Definition of technology and implementation
• Motivation for taking this course

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Learning Objectives

• Increase understanding and awareness of key
  factors that influence the probability of
  effective implementation and use
• Improve awareness or understanding of the
  characteristics of effective leaders and
  processes associated with new technology
  initiatives
• Relate the above knowledge to own industry,
  company, and experience

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Required Texts

• Brown and Duguid, The Social Life of Information
• Chaleef, The Courageous Follower
• Drucker, Innovation
• Lansing, Endurance
• Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations (5th ed.)
• Sobel, The Illustrated Longitude
• Squires, The Tender Ship

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How to obtain journal articles

• Journal article citations found in course
  syllabus by week
• Obtained on-line through the OSU Tulsa Library

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Recording/Class Schedule

• Every Tuesday, June 8 forward

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Assignments

• Three 5 page essays, each worth 100 points
• Detailed guidelines and evaluation criteria will
  be provided

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Submission of Assignments

• Must be submitted in the specified format via
  email
• Label file as lastname
• For example, rossler1.doc, rossler2.doc
• NOT PRossler1.doc or prossler1 essay.doc or
  anything other than above
• Subject line same as filename

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Late Policy

• Instructor must receive your assignment on or
  before the due date for you to earn credit
• Unless prior arrangements have been made
• Your anticipated delivery date is reasonable
• And a pattern of late work is not emerging
• An I is only given in those cases in which a
  student has demonstrated reasonable and
  consistent progress toward completion

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Teaching Philosophy

• Youre more likely to teach yourself something
  than I am
• Improving your ability to think and reason seems
  to me a more worthwhile goal than is improving
  your ability to memorize things
• I feel class is a success if youre still reading
  about this subject long after the class ends