The Golden Ph.D.

Episode NotesGlobal Innovation AdoptionIn my Innovation class, one week left, I found out that propagation of innovation across geographies is much more difficult than most organizations imagine. Simple innovations like boiling water to prevent water-borne disease have not been adopted due to cultural bias. Adoption of Smart Apps in the 2000sCloud technology adoption in different countriesStrategies to overcome barriers and challenges include:Building community of practicesEducation both codified and Tacit (had to look that one up)Investment in skill set and R&DExtending Social Groups through Social networkingHoshin Kanri Matrix What?!?!I read my required reading early in the week. Then started working on the assignments on Friday night. Come Sunday night 3 hours before the assignment is due If found a little thing called a Hoshin Kanri Matrix that I had to do. None of the reading talked about Hoshin Kanri, It was just a little item in a long paragraph of items describing the assignment. How could I have missed it? I read about it and filled it out. This is what I found.Project Management Research loves to take the same data and look at in a hundred different ways.80% of all projects do not come in on time and on budget.People create research projects trying to solve this problem.No one has solved the problem. But they can tell you there is a problem in several different ways.This validates that Agile methods are best. SCRUM all the way.What I learnedDon't put things off. Review all of the assignments early in the week.Create a task for each deliverableIt is still going to take 1 hour per page of writingStudy earlier in the week.ClassesTIM7001 - TIM OverviewTIM8601 - Project ManagementAssignmentsResearch Paper - Global Innovation Adoption (8-10 pages)PowerPoint with audio - Global Innovation Adoption (5-8 pages)Research Paper - Handling Disruption in Your Project Plan (5 pages)MS Project WBSHoshin Kanri Matrix for projectPapersTIM-7001Global Innovation Global Innovation presoTIM-8601Project Plan PaperProject PlanHoshin Kanri Matrix

Episode NotesLooked at my first class syllabus, assignments are due weekly, lectures and then research papers are due weekly. Typically 5-10 pages of writing including PowerPoint presentations.Lots of reading and listening. Approximately 15 papers a week.APA FormatWriting assignment are all in the APA format.​Had to learn what that meant.​Found a Word template that had it all set up for me.​Still have to learn the proper way to quote, tables, diagrams, etc…​First Assignment DevOps TopicDo basic research on a technology subject you want.​Basically learn how to use the library​How to do research​How to cite others research​How to write a scholarly paper​How to weed through 20 research sources.​What I learnedRead over the assignment​Start your research​Read over the assignment again​Start your research over again​Put all of your research papers in an online folder. OneDrive​Use the Word APA Template​Drop all of your citations in the APA Template before you start writing​Grammatically is your friend, after you get your thoughts down on the paper.​Use the Grammatically plagiarism checker.​Present tense, past tense, and present perfect tense (have learned)​

Video: https://youtu.be/vsbpBZIKWMw Episode NotesLooked at my first class syllabus, assignments are due weekly, lectures and then research papers are due weekly. Typically 5-10 pages of writing including PowerPoint presentations.Lots of reading and listening. Approximately 15 papers a week.APA FormatWriting assignment are all in the APA format.​Had to learn what that meant.​Found a Word template that had it all set up for me.​Still have to learn the proper way to quote, tables, diagrams, etc…​First Assignment DevOps TopicDo basic research on a technology subject you want.​Basically learn how to use the library​How to do research​How to cite others research​How to write a scholarly paper​How to weed through 20 research sources.​What I learnedRead over the assignment​Start your research​Read over the assignment again​Start your research over again​Put all of your research papers in a oneline folder. OneDrive​Use the Word APA Template​Drop all of your citations in the APA Template before you start writing​Grammatically is your friend, after you get your thoughts down on the paper.​Use the Grammatically plagiarism checker.​Present tense, past tense, and present perfect tense (have learned)​ClassesTIM7001 - TIM OverviewAssignmentsPerform Technology Research (Paper 5-7 pages)PapersTIM7001-W1A1Download