Focusing on the Business of IT

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• Focusing on the Business of IT
• Founding Partners

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Vision for Enterprise System Management

• Terminology
• Super Computing, Large Scale Computing, Grid
  Computing Cloud Computing, Utility Computing
• United Front
• Collaborative effort among academia, business,
  economic development and media
• Message
• It is all about the people
• Action Plan
• Through the common message about Enterprise
  System Management, initiate tangible activities
  to create a Center where repeatable programs
  and leveraged facilities help create massive
  interest in IT from youth and experienced
  professional talent.

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• Role of Education
• Clarity of Managing IT as a business
• Equip and produce talented professionals
• Connecting IT research to Applied Business
• Workforce development
• Nationwide Distinction

Mindset Facilities Programs
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• Grow IT Talent
• Nurture IT Management
• Cultivate Academic, Business and Economic
  Relationships around the dynamics of IT
• Plant concepts for applied business of IT through
  leveraged software and facilities
• Reproduce and spread the news

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Growing the Pool of IT Talent

• Why is this so important? Our future depends on
  it!
• IT requires a unified front to Change the
  headlines
• Information Technology as discipline
• 3 layers to address within the Academic
  Preparation
• Computer Science (Technology and Research Focus)
• Interdisciplinary (Focus on the Business of IT)
• MIS/Business Information Systems (Focus on
  business use of IT)
• Experienced leadership prepared to replace aging
  workforce

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Growing IT Talent
Marist
900,000 Needed 400,000 Available
500,000
Southern IL
Silicon Valley
NCCU
NCS
Graduates
UNC
Clemson
Now Target 30 60 80
120 ? ?
UA
GT
COC
AA
Austin

• Business
• New Hires
• Business Application
• Careers

• Universities
• Enrollment
• Curriculum
• Graduates

• Talent Pool
• Interest
• Program
• Message

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Consortium for Enterprise Systems Management

• Vision
• To be the global leader in education, model
  curriculum development, human capital
  development, applied research and entrepreneurial
  incubation for the management and use of
  enterprise systems in business, government, and
  nonprofit organizations.
• Mission
• To emphasize the business of IT while
  growing the IT talent pool within all IT
  disciplines and at all levels, K-12, associates,
  bachelors, masters, and Ph.D., and providing
  professional development to experienced IT staff,
  professionals, and managers, and executive
  development to chief information officers (CIO)
  and other IT executives with the ultimate outcome
  of attracting people and companies engaged in IT
  to Columbia, SC and the Southeast.

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CESM A Vital Hub of Intense IT Activity

CITC Columbia Insurance Technology Consortia
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CESM Initial Marketing Plan

• Seek Business Partners
• 20,000 per year for five years
• Seek partners at higher levels
• Seek Participating Universities,
• Colleges Technical Colleges
• Computer, information systems and technical
  curricula
• Recruit Students
• Middle school, high school, undergraduate and
  graduate levels
• Seek funding from foundations and federal and
  state funding Agencies

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An example of a TangibleValue Proposition

• A Product called the Educational Needs Analysis
  Matrix
• Privilege of Membership
• Self Assessment
• Provisioning Options
• Universities
• Technical Colleges
• Professional Development

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Information Technology
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Information Technology
I/S Matrix Process Inter-Relationship Diagram
Interface to highly developed repeatable Process
Enabling Processes
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• Where do you plug and play?