SWOT Analysis of Queensland University

Running head: SWOT ANALYSIS 1
SWOT Analysis Queensland University
Name:
Institution Affiliation:

SWOT ANALYSIS 2
Task A:
SWOT Analysis
Organization: Queensland University Date:
29/09/2017
Description of current/new ICT service: The institution aims at adopting a interact site (mobile app)
which will be able to connect both the students, educators as well as the professional workers at
the University to be able to access the various resource and services. This interact site would be
accessed through the use of the mobile devices such as the tablets or even the smartphones
(Abrego-Almazán, Tovar & Quintero, 2017). The use of this interactive site would serve as the
point of entry for the purposes of training, collaboration, as well as the administrative services which
are to be access by the students and the employees in the institution.
STRENGTHS
1. This organization has strong reputation
as the leader of innovation. They have
also blended their learning and they
have a distance learning program. This
has enabled many of the students who
are working to access the education all
across the globe. This is an extension of
the online services which would be
convenient to the students who are
studying through the module of distance
learning.
2. The institution also have an extensive
well established mobile infrastructure
which have incorporated on the portals
for both the students and the staff. This
is to enhance the establishment of the
social networking as well as other digital
services and be able to enhance the
online education programs which the
institution has established. The presence
WEAKNESSES
1. Queensland University does not have
sufficient information technology experts
who are devoted towards the development
as well as the maintenance of this new
information program in the long run.
2. The larger number use of the mobile
devices used in the University could
overwhelm the network rendering it to be
slow which would cost the institution to add
more capacity to be to cater to the large
number of students and the staff who are
accessing it.
3. The mobile devices are accessible to many
of the students but the university does not
have internal infrastructure to be able to
support on the modes of the learning which
is available via the mobile technologies.
Currently they are depending the You Tube
as well as Vimeo to be able to upload their
contents.
4. The gateways and the information system in

SWOT ANALYSIS 3
of this infrastructure has enabled
establishment of experience and this has
also helped in reducing on the
prospective of having to undertake
training which is a burden to the
information technology and the
academic employees. Additionally, there
is a high speed wireless network which
is access all throughout the institution.
3. The students who are geographically
dispersed away from the institution have
seen the web as their main channel of
the communication with the institution
and this has prompted to adopted this
interact site application which would be
useful especially in communication.
4. Queensland University have been able
to develop their own application. This
has put them ahead of the other
institution which are within Australia.
Further, the databases as well as the
other resources which are subscribed to
the library they have an inbuilt
application of mobile and this
functionality could be integrated into this
new interact application. Moreover, other
services such as those used in teaching,
research as well as administrative
departments would be incorporated.
5. Many of the staffs have been engaged to
the researching of the mobile learning
innovations as well as the best practices.
This project on the mobile learning has
been there for a number of years now.
the organization are aging since they have
been operating these system or long and
sometime these systems could overlap on
the system. Sometimes the students could
be confused about the portals.