TOIM strategy

1. TOIM Meeting
Bala Iyer
December 2016

2. Agenda
• Advisory board update
• D&C Update
• Research Impact – Who is your target and how do you know you have
impact?
• SME2041
• Accounting Information Systems
• Hiring
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3. Advisory board
• CIO, EMC
• CTO, Fidelity
• CTO, Partners Healthcare
• Global leader, IBM
• GM, Xively
• Program VP, IDC
• Editor, CIO magazine
• President, Mobiquity
• Partner, Wellington Management
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4. Goal
• To be a top ranked TOIM department in the NE region
• Make TOIM concentrations the most sought after in the college
• Prepare our students to be “ready” for work – digital innovators
• Bridge physical/digital products
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5. Way to get there
• Stakeholder focus (student experience)
• More choice – 2 CR electives and Blended
• Skill-based and conceptual
• Tech Day and Hackathons
• Intellectual vitality
• Blogs, LinkedIn and traditional articles
• Brand building on Twitter, YouTube and Website
• Research and teaching talks
• Experimentation (Experimental College)
• Integrate with Boston Tech Ecosystem
• Internships, research, teaching and consulting
• Advisory board
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6. Research– feedback
• Closing the talent gap
• Small business as a research topic (e.g., impact of digital technologies) to leverage
Babson’s SME network (Sara)
• The issue of creating sustainable relevance in the IoT Ecosystem (Sandip)
• Digital governance
• Monetization of data – data packaging and pricing (proposed to explore Under
Armour)
• Retention of IT/Analytics staff
• Suggestion: offer (engineer/obtain and release) data sets and offer them to
startups trying to build/test analytics models (Judah)
• Suggestion: approach Mass Challenge and the Society for Information
Management
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7. Potential research partners
• IBM
• PTC
• Accenture – High Performance Institute
• Encored
• Verizon
• Craig Benson grant
• DesignZone
• IoT Lab
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8. Research -- future
• Be a thought leader
• Consider writing blogs
• Use the ecosystem for case studies
• Look at opportunities in IoT
• Our influencers should write our story
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9. Partnerships
• Off campus. Get out of campus in a variety of ways and integrate into
Boston Business Ecosystem.
• Babson company track. Field trip with students for them to learn about the
company/startup story and have close interactions with top management.
(CCD already does this for grad school).
• Hackathons: These could be theme-based around a challenge (e.g., IoT use
cases, mobile apps for healthcare, digital assistants).
• HubSpot, SAP, HP organized events (around a theme – such as inbound
marketing, cognitive computing).
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10. Partnerships
• ON campus. Bring talent to Boston campus. We should take advantage of
the Boston ideal location.
• Who does large innovative companies like Google bring to teach their employees?
Who could be guest lecturers?
• On campus. Use Boston campus as a place to showcase Babson vitality to the
area (e.g., Babson “pop-ups” highlighting student or faculty projects).
• On campus Organize something like Babson Entrepreneurship Forum as Babson
Technology, Operations and Innovation Forum, or CLTP.
• Offer area innovators a valuable experience at Babson - Join CLTP events.
• Expand Babson Tech network
• Partnership with WPI. (not just MIT who already has a lot of partners).
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11. Teaching feedback
• Teach concepts with tools
• Get students “work ready”
• Startup institute course work
• Product management
• UX/UI with usability testing
• Field trip course
• Do more with the boot camp idea
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12. Teaching future
• Continue innovating – two credit electives
• Boot camp refinement
• Look for joint BEE opportunities
• Consider edX
• Videos to market electives
• Build bench strength
• Use the ecosystem and bring experts to class
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13. Conclusions
• Good year.
• New courses
• More concentrators
• Revving up the research engine
• More collaboration
• Please engage and be team players
• Define what we mean by impact
• Establish DesignZone and IoT
• Make more connections with ecosystem
• PREPARE for review meetings
• Others?
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