University Digital Transformation Intelligent Architecture: A Dual Model, Methods and Applications

Published in: Innovation in Education and Inclusion : Proceedings of the 16th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education and Technology
Date of Conference: July 18-20, 2018
Location of Conference: Lima, Perú
Authors: Jesus Alfonso Perez Gama (Grupo Internacional de Investigación U San José EIDOS - Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, CO)
Anselmo Vega Vega (Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, CO)
Manuel Neira Aponte (BI - PLANNING SAS, CO)
Full Paper: #274

Abstract:

Digital Transformation (DT) Inside Higher Education (HE): In the new era, on the way to the IV Industrial Revolution corporations of all classes, are focused on the massive and optimal practice of ICT in different organizational plans including human talent, organizational configurations, processes, inputs, outcomes, services and obviously the industry. Nowadays, 70% of the top companies have robust DT Teams, and 40% of them are driven by high ICT and Artificial and Computational Intelligence. Very few Colombian Universities (U) have undertaken the problem of competitiveness in HE, much less have made the conversion to the IV Industrial Revolution, by taking the jump, thus receiving a tremendous disappointment due to educational obsolescence. The U should play an important role in the reduction of the digital gap, and even more, must design new programs that face the formation of digital talent (i.e. cyber-programmers technicians) that is required. In the recent ICT International Congress in Latin America, numerous national cases of DT were presented from companies, but unfortunately, not a single case from HE. ¿Will the Colombian computerization case be replicated, which was left to the discretion of transnational computer elites? The DT of U, implies necessarily the cognimatics (the informatics for the Knowledge Society) of all the companies and their social insertion in this journey... University Architecture: is an Enterprise Architecture (EA): Architecting implies the organization of a system of subsystems (SoS) or constituents to obtain better and/or new functionalities. If any piece is knowledge-based, an intelligent performance is obtained. The architecture-multilayer approach is a SoS one, that ensures compliance with government policies, procedures and standards, in a highly complex establishment with intellectual capital and intelligent processes, which is a usual status quo in an academy institution; defines the subsystems at a higher level, where a system is made-up, and with the protocols by which they communicate. EA and Business Architecture provide an industry 360° vision map, and organization structure for business and technological changes. EA is used as a system overall configuration of subsystems or components organized in layers, where each one describes an ordered audience of structures and common functionalities assembled by a purposeful criterion inside the HE institutions. As purposes we present a succint outline of our architectural DT model of the DT of U. The pillars of the architecture are: finance, innovation and investigation, entrepreneurship and social projection; recognizing from the start, that knowledge has its ethos in the university; they correspond to: 1- Productive ecosystem of the DT. 2- DT that enhances the knowledge and innovation in the U for the habilitation of the digital capacities throughout the institution. 3- A new economy that requires technology transformation also supported on entrepreneurship. 4- New DT human talent required by the new IA industry. The student hyper-personalization by competences and skills, bio-data, socioeconomic conditions and family composition, is required. We discuss the basic and conceptual aspects, and methodological dimension for the DT, applying some intelligent constructs that we have developed and documented during the last 10 years at FESSANJOSE