Joseph KK Ho's work diary

The lecture topics of coming Research in IT are: Rupp and Smith (2002) "Mobile commerce: New Revenue machine or black hole?" Pan, M. and Mao, J.Y. (2008) "Chapter 3: The current state and future directions of the mobile technologies and business in China" Trends in Mobile Technology and Business in the Asia-Pacific Region. Alshawi, Missi and Eldabi (2003) "Healthcare information management: the integration of patients' data" Logistics Information Management , Vol 16(3/4)

The coming lecture topics of Research in IT include: Rich picture building: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150261845082090.378645.713727089&type=3 Cognitive mapping technique: http://josephho33.blogspot.hk/2011/08/using-cognitive-mapping-in-disseration.html Gray, P. (2006) "Chapter 10: Working together: Systems Integration, Interorganizational Systems, Alliances, and Globalization" Manager's Guide to Making  Decisions about Information Systems, Wiley. Lau, T.Y. et al. (2008) "Adoption of e-government in three Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico" Telecommunication Policy 32, 88-100. Heeks and Standforth (2007) "Understanding e-Government project trajectories from an actor-network perspective" European Journal of Information Systems 16, 165-177. Related lecture notes: Also refer to note on rich picture drawing guideline: http://josephho33.blogspot.hk/2012/07/basic-steps-to-construct-rich-picture....

Students studying for Research in IT   need to submit a learning logbook for the assignment. According to the assignment requirement, a learning logbook should include: Diary information study activities, e.g. group meetings, internet search efforts, libary based search and company visits, etc; try to provide this information in the form of a diary: Date XXX: Do XXX; objectives XXX; actual results: XXX; Reflective and evaluative comments XXX Study notes on reading articles: e.g. https://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/joseph-kk-ho/e-health-study-note/10151002854422819  (you could just mention the name of the note and put the actual notes in the appendix Sketches of ideas: http://josephkkhoworkdiary.blogspot.hk/2012/07/e-coaching-diagrams-rough-drafts.html Factors that contribute to your learning processes: access to e-library; lecturer's form of support: classroom lecture and afterclass e-communication; quality of peer collaboration, enhanced methods of study, etc. ...

The question comes up in my lectures more frequently these days. Students are informed to buy a course textbook. After a while, I ask the class again; still no one buys the subject textbook. Students are only prepared to read my powerpoint handouts and listen to my recorded lectures afterward. Many of these students are poor in English and are not willing to learn theories from the academic sources. They are not willing to buy nor to read textbooks.. When asked, they would tell you that they just want to pass the subjects and get a recognized university degree.. they want to finish the degree programme and then resume their normal lives afterward.. The question is: why are students required to read textbooks? My answer is: you have the answer with you already...

I came across a news of young people who aspire to study for further education but cannot afford to do so, as follows: http://hk.news.yahoo.com/%E6%9C%88%E5%85%A7%E7%88%B6%E6%AF%8D%E9%9B%99%E4%BA%A1-%E5%BF%83%E6%82%B2%E7%97%9B%E8%B7%AF%E8%8C%AB%E8%8C%AB-%E5%AD%A4%E5%93%80%E5%A7%8A%E5%A6%B9%E7%82%BA%E7%B1%8C%E5%AD%B8%E8%B2%BB%E5%BE%AC%E5%BE%A8-220951347.html ( 一月內父母雙亡 心悲痛路茫茫 孤哀姊妹為籌學費徬徨).. If necessary, students in such dire situation could also contact me and consider studying for some open examination schemes with private tutorials provided by me free of charge. There are external examination schemes such as that offered by the Association of Business Executives ( http://abeuk.com/ ) that can be adopted for further study and they are not expensive at all.

The following are coming lecture topics for the subject of Research in IT : IS in Managing Business Operations: The Supply Chain in Gray, P. (2006) Manager's Guide to Making Decisions about Information Systems , Wiley. Demirkan, H. and Goul, M. (2011) "Taking value networks to the cloud services: security services, semantics and service level agreements" Information Systems and E-Business Management , Dec. 31., Springer. Balka, E., White, S., Coates, S.T. and Andrusiek, D. (2012) "Ski hill injuries and ghost charts: Socio-technical issues in achieving e-Health interoperability across jurisdictions" Information Systems Frontier 14: 19-42. Key words: Cloud computing ; also refer to: cloud computing and health care: http://www.poweryourpractice.com/can-cloud-computing-help-fix-healthcare/ Bring your own device e-supply chain management [on supply chain management ]; also refer to green supply chain management blog article: http://josephho33.blogsp...

Two diagrams as related to e-coaching (rough drafts): Diagram 1: Diagram 2: Diagram 3: 

The next IT in research methods topic is on Information Technology Development . The main items of study include: Voice over IP Web 2.0 Mobile applications Data warehouse Pls study relevant lecture powerpoint notes also. Related note 1: Note 2: Relevant reference: Gray, P. (2006) "Chapter 2: The Big Picture: IT and Business" Manager's Guide to Making Decision about Information Systems , Wiley.

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposite ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function" [F. Scott Fitzgerald] This appears to be a viewpoint based on post-modernism.

For the coming seminar session of Research in IT ,  the following tasks are reviewed: Seminar 5: Seminar 6: Related note: Relevant readings: Kim, J. (2006) "Infrastructure of the digital economy: Some empirical findings with the case of Korea" Technological Forecasting and Socoal Change 73, 377-389. Pol, E. and Carroll, P. (2005) "Chapter 1: The new economy: myth or reality?" An Introduction to the Creative Economy , Innovation Planet (Sole Trader). On the digital economy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_economy Also refer to the following video on the digital economy : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu50Wi1Q4Cg

The main resources for GW Electronic Commerce subject are as follows: Facebook folder: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150311634837090.391311.713727089&type=3 Blog notes: http://josephkkhoworkdiary.blogspot.hk/2012/07/some-internet-resources-on-electronic.html Also note e-marketing blog article: http://josephho33.blogspot.hk/2012/07/e-marketing-online-resources.html Website design blog article: http://josephho33.blogspot.hk/2012/08/website-design-guidelines-online.html Also note following e-marketing info: Note on Marketing 3.0: Notes on Digital economics: e-Marketing note: Lecture note on ethics and regulation in direct marketing : Re: Brubaker, S. (2007)"Industry perspective: Ethics and regulation iin direct marketing" Direct Marketing: An International Journal vol. 1(1), pp. 55-58. Lecture note: Data analysis as related to Direct Marketing : R Re: Scarisbrick-Hauser, A. (2007) "Industry...

The next lecture on Research in IT will be on Information Systems in an organizational context . Main readings are as follows: Checkland and Holwell (1998) "Chapter 4: Information in Support of Action", Information, Systems and Information Systems , Wiley. Willcocks et al. (1998) 'Cybernomics' and It Productivity, European Management Journal 16(3). Willcock et al. (2006) "Implementing Core IS Capabilities" European Management Journal 24(1). Straub et al. (1997) "Testing the technology acceptance model across cultures" Information & Management 33. Related lecture note:

Some readings on Electronic Commerce for students: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_commerce http://www.ecommercetimes.com/ http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/electronic_commerce.html http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/ http://www.gov.hk/en/business/ecommerce/ecommerce/ The main textbook to use is: Turban, E., King, D., Lee, J., Liang, T.P. and Turban, D. (2010) Electronic Commerce 2010: A managerial perspective , Pearson.

Rich students spent a lot of school fee but did not turn up in my workshops to learn; poor students who are keen to learn but do not have the opportunities to attend my classes. I hope I can  earn enough saving so that I can teach poor students who are keen to learn free of charge. Ultimately, learning should be free and students need to learn how to learn by themselves.

For tutorials 5 and 6 of Research in IT , the tutorial tasks are as follows: You need to study lecture notes and textbooks on Research Methods on discussion of (i) Research Process and (ii) hypothesis. I will also review the following readings with you in the upcoming tutorial session: Adams et al. (2007) "Chapter 3: The Research Cycle" Research Methods  for Graduate Business and Social Science Students , Response from SAGE. Bailey, K.D. (1994) "Chapter 3: Constructing Social Explanations" Methods of Social Research, The Free Press. Pls be reminded that you need to study the subject of Soft Systems Methodology in this subject. Related tutorial note 1: Note 2: Related facebook forum on Research Methods: https://www.facebook.com/groups/125235494183216/#!/groups/194088197319308/

The upcoming lecture topic for Research in IT is Information Systems in an organizational context . The following readings are relevant: Checkland and Holwell (1998) Information, Systems and Information Systems, Chapter 3: 'Organizations': The main context of work on Information Systems Scott Morton (1995) "Emerging Organizational Forms" European Managment Journal 13(4) Venkatraman and Henderson (1998) Real Strategies for Virtual Organizing, Sloan Management Review Fall. Winter, Brown and Checkland (1995) "A role for soft systems methodology in information systems development" European Journal of Information Systems 4. You should also do some reading on soft systems methodology to learn about the topic Lecture note 1: Lecture note 2: Lecture note 3:

Example 1: This university says it cares about its students, but it does not offer a e-library to them. Example 2: This education centre says it cares about subject assessment quality but it is not willing to check students' assignments with anti-plagiarism software. [And it is clear that some students will plagiarise even if they are reminded not to do so on a repeated basis! They will not plagiarise only when they are caught with the anti-plagiarism software and they are penalised; this reminds me of the chinese saying: people will not cry unless they see the coffins. There are other similar examples that indicate that what people care can only be derived from what they do, not what they say..

Cause-effect analysis: an illustration Q1: why are there always several first class hon. graduates for this programme? Answer: Because I am their teacher - a great teacher Q2: Then, why are there no first class hon. graduates for another programme that you also teach? Answer: Because students there are not hardworking; the centre should not enroll them to start with.. This example mainly illustrates why cause-effect analysis is tricky to conduct.

It was a hot day; I was sleepy... As I arrived at HKU, I discovered that the library was closed so that I was not able to return the few heavy books. And then, I met a student who was lost, so I accompanied her to LY Hall. When I saw the students, I thought it was a facebook friends' gathering as many of them are on my facebook, so I can recognize their faces and, for some, even their names. I talked a lot with the University staff and other guests about my Research interests and they seem interested in what I told them - which was unexpected. Many students took photos with me but only a few shared their photos with me subsequently. Anyway, it was a nice gathering - so nice that I posted the following note in my facebook as follows: Absence of meeting: Conversation Uncle Chow: Why were you absent from our scheduled meeting last night? JH: I watched football match last night. Uncle Chow: Why then did you not see me in the morning? JH: I would like to but all eyes were ...