Joseph KK Ho's work diary

From a query of student who intends to take up further study overseas: In my view, the selection of university offers could be based on the following factors: (a) career prospect; (b) research interest; (c) short-term financial consideration, and (d) ease of settlement in campus life. I do not know your weighting to these 4 factors. Based on my understanding, students from Mainland appear to prefer Universities from USA. If financing of study is vital, then a university offer that involves the smallest amount of money spent will be more attractive. Ease of settlement in campus life is also important: do you think you could get along well with people in a particular university? Do you have friends in one of these universities? etc..  Try to review these factors and come up with your decision. I believe it is not a totally rational exercise.. do rely on your gut feeling a bit in your holistic decision-making process. I believe the answer of university offer choice...

My google + account, newly established: https://plus.google.com/u/0/?gpsrc=ogpy0&tab=wX#114478088643618004329/about My learning and study dialogue google + group: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/102155062613300926934/102155062613300926934/about/op/iph#102155062613300926934/about My online news and journal group: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108606354864493683408/108606354864493683408/about/op/iph#108606354864493683408/posts My Housing Management study group: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/111340167202830467466/111340167202830467466/about/op/iph#111340167202830467466/about My Business studies - local context group: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/111340167202830467466/111340167202830467466/about/op/iph#111340167202830467466/about

On IS consultation session this Sat: purpose and preparation: The session for each student lasts for 8 minutes, mainly to review students' progress in topic investigation and report writing. I will try to make some comments and advice in the session to individual students. It is useful if students can bring along their report drafts to the meeting so that I can make some specific comments and advice. There is no mark to gain to attain this meeting as it is not an assessment exercise with scores granted.

The following information is for the orientation briefing session for new Accounting/ Business Admin students on April 19, 2013 http://josephkkhoworkdiary.blogspot.hk/2012/04/orientation-workshop-for-new-acct-admin.html

The following comments are overall feedbacks on Independent Study oral presentations: Some topics are quite "safe" and "standardized": no major suggestions made to students in this case A number of students have difficulties to formulate multiple regression formula that match their report titles and objectives Some students still have problems to understand multiple regression analysis Some students have poor knowledge on Literature Review Related video 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IUZWZX4OGI Related video 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2d7y_r65HU Some students are still unclear about their basic proposal ideas A few students have difficulties to explain the nature of their proposals? Quite a number of students have still weak knowledge on the subject of Research Methods. Quite a number of students need to improve writing skill and skill of analysis/ reasoning. A few students now realize that they may need to consider applying chi-squared t...

The following teaching plan is for MISM Research Methods workshop in April 2013: On Literature Review and Lessons learned http://josephho33.blogspot.hk/2013/01/the-role-of-literature-review-in.html http://josephkkhoworkdiary.blogspot.hk/2013/03/literature-review-3-vs-and-1-o.html http://josephho33.blogspot.hk/2013/02/bad-and-good-practices-on-literature.html http://josephho33.blogspot.hk/2011/08/use-of-theoretical-frameworks-in.html http://josephho33.blogspot.hk/2011/12/major-websites-of-academic-publishers.html http://josephho33.blogspot.hk/2011/08/using-cognitive-mapping-in-disseration.html http://josephho33.blogspot.hk/2012/01/list-of-articles-on-e-library-usage.html On exploration and exploitation of literature review. On harvard referencing On writing style, notably on usage of quotation On the difficulties to read academic readings On dissertation coaching Related lecture notes Note 1: https://www.facebook.com/josephho33?ref=tn_tnmn#!/photo.php?fbid=1015158462...

The following dissertation topic is being worked on in my recent dissertation coaching project : The dissertation theme is: to evaluate the Information Technology infrastructure function of ABC Ltd using the concepts of Complexity and Law of Requisite Variety: a case study The main theories to use: Weill and Broadbent (1998) Leveraging the new infrastructure, Harvard Business School Press Beer, S. (1981) Brain of the Firm, Wiley Clemson, B. (1984) Cybernetics, Abacus Press Baccarini, D. (1996) "The concept of project complexity - a review" International Journal of Project Management 14(4) Flood and Carson (1988) Dealing with Complexity, Plenum Press Yin, R.K. (1989) Case Study Research, SAGE publications Basically, the IT infrastructure planning methodology of Weill and Broadbent is used to review the IT infrastructure function as well as the IT infrastructure management of ABC Ltd; then the notions of complexity and Law of Requisite Variety are further employe...