<div dir="ltr">Hi rb. I do take your point, but one could also argue that good dental hygiene is important to IT professionals, but does that mean it has to be taught in their IT course? :-)<div><br></div><div>VCE IT courses have long been influenced by their primordial roots in Accounting and business studies. Most of that mud has now gone due to judicious study design revisions, but some - like the T/S/O decision key knowledge - remains (and it's about as interesting as a boiled pig's snout.)</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 February 2013 07:58, rb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bouman.reinier.r@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">bouman.reinier.r@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks Mark for your comments. I like a lot of what you are<br>
saying/pleading for.<br>
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However I disagree about;<br>
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"- Let's also remove the business-management remnants like<br>
tactical/strategic/operational decision making. Like project management,<br>
they are only tangentially-relevant to IT."<br>
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I think it is important that IT profs. have a fundamental working<br>
knowledge of business.<br>
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All too often business decisions are made which are based on financial<br>
efficiency and not on technical effectiveness. An IT prof. who can make<br>
sound business based argument for technical effectiveness surely will<br>
reap financial benefits for that business.<br>
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(eg: choosing the next round of replacement laptops in a school)<br>
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Being involved with a large government organisation one may be able to<br>
see scenarios that have not played out like that because the black art<br>
of bean-countery has taken priority over technical effectiveness.<br>
<br>
I encourage all my IT students to also take a business subject.<br>
<br><br></blockquote></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">--<div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Important - </b>This email and attachments may or may not be confidential. If received in error, please contact us and send us a really good joke. We get lonely here, and no-one talks to us in the legal department. Before opening or using attachments check them for viruses and defects: if either exists, open them anyway; life is short, and they might be interesting. Regardless of any loss, damage or consequence, whether caused by the incompetence of the sender or not, our liability is limited to sending you flowers or chocolate. Any representations or opinions expressed are those of the individual sender, and not necessarily those of <a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">vceit.com</a>.<br>
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