Mathew, Mark, Luke, Java, and XML2

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Mathew, Mark, Luke, Java, and XML-2

• Give Me That Old Time Religion

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Give Me That Old Time Religion(On the Internet)
The report projects that within this decade as
many as 50 million individuals may rely solely
upon the Internet to provide all of their
faith-based experiences By the end of the decade
we will have in excess of ten percent of our
population who rely upon the Internet for their
entire spiritual experience
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Church Next Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry

• There are numerous resources available

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The Internet Church

• New rules for ministry

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Church Nextby Aubrey and Michael Malphurs

• This book will help churches and Christian
  organizations explore how they can further expand
  their outreach and fulfill the Great Commission
  by using the technology of the Internet.

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Information Technology

• Tactical tool
• Strategic advantage

www.mychurch.org
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Profits or SoulsWhich is More Important

• Commercial organizations have moved past the
  simple tactical use of technology. They now use
  technology to achieve strategic advantage
• Unfortunately, many Adventist organizations and
  leaders seem satisfied with the mere tactical use
  of technology

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Attitudes Towards TechnologyCitibank

• We are an IT firm masquerading as a bank

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Attitudes Towards TechnologyUS Army

• The realities of the information age promise to
  alter forever the way the military does business.

General Gordon R. Sullivan, Former Chief of
Staff, U.S. Army
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Attitudes Towards TechnologyUS Army

• America's Army is in the midst of a remarkable
  change driven by information age technologies
  that will forever alter the way we fight

Captain Harry E. Jones, II
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Attitudes Towards TechnologyChinese Military

• In the 1991 Gulf War, the US used the advanced
  technology weapon systems with information
  technology as a core. After that, the high
  technology weapon systems have been used more and
  more in battlefields. In Kosovo war and recent
  Iraq war, high technology weapon systems became
  the dominant weapons in military operations.
  information technology as a core is the
  technology basis of the military revolution, and
  a basis for a new strong military state.

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Attitudes Toward TechnologyMichelin

• Michelin develops and uses sophisticated
  numerical simulation tools for designing tires.
  Research into new computational techniques for
  Finite Element Analysis of tires is considered of
  strategic value to Michelin

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Attitudes Towards TechnologyUnited Methodists
In my humble opinion, churches really only have
two choices get involved in the flow, or be left
behind on the shore. In ten years, a church that
does not embrace technology may find it's very
existence in jeopardy.   Larry Copling, United
Methodists Church
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Attitudes Towards TechnologyRiverland Hills
Baptist Church

• Technology is driving our country, so why not use
  technology to the fullest in order to advance the
  kingdom?

Pastor Rev. Wayne Cole
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Attitudes Towards TechnologySouthern Adventist
University

• Holy Disciplines First Class Departments
• Theology
• Nursing
• Education
• Secular Disciplines Second Class
• Computer Science
• Physics

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Attitudes Towards TechnologySouthern Adventist
University

• The Computer Science degree has less of a direct
  application to our mission and if it doesnt
  prosper well on its own, it should be
  terminated.
• Gordon Bietz, University President

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Attitudes Towards TechnologyAdventist Church

• Panel discussion - Computing and Missions 2002
• IT has a tactical role not a strategic one

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Org ChartCommercial organization

• Chief Information Officer is a Senior Vice
  President Cabinet level position

CEO

CFO
CIO
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Org ChartGeneral Conference

• No Chief Information Officer
• ISS is classified with support services and
  housed in the basement with shipping and
  receiving
• The head of ISS is organizationally on a par with
  the head of Janitorial services

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TechnologyA Strategic advantage

• survey of nearly 600 senior executives in 18
  countries
• The conclusion innovators behave differently,
  achieving competitive superiority through their
  approaches to business in general and their use
  of information technology in particular.

• www.accenture.com/innovators

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Strategic AdvantageBristol-Myers Squibb

• SMART-IDEA (Structure Modeling and Analysis
  Research Tool Integrated Data for Experimental
  Analysis).

21st-Century Achievement Award for visionary use
of information technology
new drugs to market faster
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Strategic AdvantagePeugeot
Customer-centric Websites

• You can choose the exact model according to your
  own preferences.
• By following the five simples steps, you can
  obtain a quote on-line and even contact a dealer
  to organize a test drive.  

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Strategic AdvantageWorld Rally Championship

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Strategic Advantage Mormons

• Genealogy

• Family members who accept the Atonement of Jesus
  Christ and follow His example can be together
  forever through sacred ordinances performed in
  Gods holy temples.

Family History Library Catalog
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Strategic Advantage US Military

• Advances in computer architecture and machine
  intelligence will have reached the point where
  intelligent agents can analyze the environment
  and current battle situation, , select and
  dispense munitions, and report results. These
  unmanned systems will augment manned platforms in
  every facet of operations on the ground, sea,
  air, and space, including information dominance
  and manipulation.

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Strategic Advantage Swainson's hawks

• The most publicized practical application of this
  technology is its use in solving the mystery of
  the crash of North American Swainson's hawk
  populations
• Through the use of satellite-based telemetry, the
  area in central Argentina used by the hawks was
  delineated and, within 18 months, the problem was
  remedied

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Strategic Advantage Heal the Sick before they
get sick

• locations of cattle pastures and human dwellings,
  are inputted into the GIS map based on ultra-high
  resolution satellite images from commercial
  satellites like Ikonos and QuickBird, which can
  spot objects on the ground as small as 80 cm
  across. Then region-wide variables like
  temperature, rainfall, vegetation types, and soil
  moisture are derived from medium-resolution
  satellite data, such as from Landsat 7 or the
  MODIS sensor on NASA's Terra satellite. (MODIS
  stands for MODerate-resolution Imaging
  Spectrometer.) Scientists feed all of this
  information into a computer simulation that runs
  on top of a digital map of the landscape.
  Sophisticated mathematical algorithms chew on all
  these factors and spit out an estimate of
  outbreak risk.

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Allan Martin Dre am Vision
.

• As we get together (think tanks like this
  conference)its a shame if all we talk about is
  how to put the bells and whistles on MACRO
  VISIONING is what we need. We need to not
  simply catch the tail of technology and then pat
  ourselves on the back. We have kids who are
  leaving school and applying their abilities to
  secular entities. We are losing out if we dont
  put that to work for Christ

http//www.tagnet.org/dvm/index.html
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Strategic Advantage Adventists

• AWR

• Studios create Audio files that are sent to our
  Data Repositories via FTP and CD-R or DVD-RAM
  then distributed to Intelligent Agent PCs _at_ TX
  sites for transmission on time.
• Radio Station in a box
• Compression Algorithms in collaboration with
  Fraunhofer GmBH
• Control room on a web page
• Bgan
• Global VSAT (IP, audio, VoIP) _at_ 42 Mbps for 3rd
  world.

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Strategic Advantage Adventists

• Bible Studies

• Student in China
• Bible instructor in California
• Coordinator in Tennessee

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Reality

• Even though there are some examples of the
  strategic use of technology with Adventism
• The church as a whole does not view technology as
  a mission critical strategic asset.

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Strategic Advantage Take another look.

• The problems in the examples in this talk could
  not have been solved without IT sitting in the
  highest level meetings of their org. Unless the
  church does this will miss opportunities
• Instead we close technology programs at out
  universities and too often relegate IT to
  tactical support

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CIO A cabinet level position?

• Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Peugeot
• World Rally Championship
• US Military
• Swainson's hawks
• Department of health in India

These problems could not have been solved without
the CIOs involvement at senior strategic levels
in their organizations.
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Give me that old time religion

• Heal the sick
• With the latest technology
• Help the poor
• Water, food, and the internet
• Preach the gospel
• What better way to go to all the world than
  through the internet
• Support the brethren
• With virtual communities

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Think about the Mission of the Adventist Church

• On-line Education
• Connected Clinics

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Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic
Faith

• Many within our denomination have demonstrated
  great proficiency in the use of computers,
  networks, and other enabling information
  technologies. We intend to harness that knowledge
  and skill

What about Seventh-Day Adventists? Will we be
left behind?
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• Hopefully conferences such as this one can
• inspire technologists to serve and
• educate administrators on the strategic value of
  technology in accomplishing the mission of the
  church

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• "What have you done with the bits I gave you?