Paper Info
Title
Minding the gap: bridging computing science and business studies with an interdisciplinary innovation challenge
Abstract
For today's information technology organization, working in teams across functional and even organizational boundaries has become an integral part of every project. When asked about these projects, practitioners regularly report on how grave differences between business professionals and technology teams have negatively affected project performance. The serious gap between how the two sides think, talk and work is systemic already in the training and education of both Business and Computer Science students at the university level. This paper describes the design of a competitive SFU Innovation Challenge which aims to bridge that gap by tasking interdisciplinary groups to create iPhone application prototypes and related business innovation roadmaps. This document then summarizes the objectives of the SFU Innovation Challenge, and reports on the difficulties and positive results that materialized when students combined their technological problem- solving techniques and managerial strategies for effectively confronting real-world problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1806512.1806533
Proceedings of the 15th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
pedagogy,interdisciplinary innovation challenge,computing science,software development,technology management,technology team,computer science,business study,experience report,business professional,innovation management,sfu innovation challenge,project performance,related business innovation roadmaps,computer science student,information technology organization,grave difference,competitive sfu innovation challenge,serious gap,retention,innovation,information technology,negative affect
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.62
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan Kietzmann16911.26
Herbert H. Tsang29219.08