Category Archives: Doctorate

What’s your focus?

What’s your focus?
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself this question? What are you focused on in your life or your job?  What’s your focus for the future?
It’s a simple question but a difficult one to answer for most people.  Ask this question of 10 of your coworkers and you’ll probably get most people staring [...]

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Stories, Projects & Knowledge Management

Here’s the latest version of my storytelling for knowledge management in projects presentation.  Enjoy!
Recorded Presentation via Vimeo:
Don’t want to listen to me drone on and on?   You can view just the slides on Slideshare:

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My New Blog – Road to the Doctorate Blog

If you didn’t know, I’m working on my Doctor of Science degree in Information Systems at Dakota State University. In the past, I’ve posted updates to this blog about my status but have always felt a bit like those updates (and my journey through the doctorate program) deserved more than just an occasional post on [...]

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Time for a Mid Year Review

2009 is half over and its been a pretty good year so far.
What’s transpired this year?

In February, I put my consulting practice on hold to join the Boy Scouts of America full time after working with them for 1.5 years as a consultant.  Previous to starting full-time, I’d been leading the Sitecore Content Management System [...]

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Doctorate Work = 43% complete

I’ve just submitted my last requirement for my last class in the Spring 2009 semester.  Whew. I’m now 43% complete with the doctoral work…should be done with coursework around this time next year.
Current Status (May 2009)

39 hours complete
52 remaining (27 hours coursework, 25 hours dissertation)
43% complete.
Coursework completion ~ mid-2010
Dissertation completion ~2012.

I’m taking another six hours [...]

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Using Stories to share knowledge

As part of a research project for my doctorate work I’ve been looking at the use of storytelling for knowledge sharing in project teams.  I’ve found the topic extremely interesting and perhaps even something I can find a dissertation topic out of.
While looking through my RSS Reader last week I ran across Glenn Whitfield’s post [...]

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Doctorate Pursuit – Year 1

The first year of my doctorate program is done!
Actually…I finished my last course about a month ago but with the Fall 2008 semester starting next week, I figured I should claim the First Year is complete.
During the first year I took five courses:

INFS 614 – Introduction to Research
INFS 720 – Systems Analysis and Design
INFS 724 [...]

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First semester is complete

I’ve just completed my first semester of my doctoral program and I’m ready for a break.
I took 2 courses this semester worth 6 hours. The courses are:

Introduction to Research (INFS 614) -  This course was a bear.  I did more research and writing in this course than I’ve done in the last 5 years I [...]

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First semester in the Doctoral program

Things have been a little quite on my blog recently due to being busy in coursework for my doctorate at Dakota State University.
The Fall 2007 semester is in full swing and I’ve found myself working harder in this program than I can remember doing in my MBA program.
This semester finds me in 2 courses: Intro [...]

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I am now a doctoral student

Starting September 5, 2007, I will be a student in the Doctor of Science in Information Systems program at Dakota State.
The school is one of the very very few non-profit, regionally accredited universities in the country that offers a doctoral program in information systems via an external (or distance learning) program. The DSU D.Sc. [...]

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