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Disrupt – Think the Unthinkable: A Book Review [Gartner]

On 03/25/2011, in business, corporate / business world, disruption, leadership, strategy, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

Disrupt – Think the Unthinkable: A Book Review — from Gartner by Mark McDonald

There are many books that say you need to ‘disrupt’ your business to remain competitive.  There are almost no books that describe how you create disruption in a clear, concise and step-by-step manner.  Luke Williams’s book Disrupt – think the unthinkable to spark transformation is exactly this type of book.

It’s rare that a book discusses a complex issue, one with such potential for consulting jargon and confusion, and produces a clear, concise and actionable set of advice.  Rather than try to cloud the issue, Williams tackles it head on by giving you the tools and discussion how you think differently and turn that thought into action.  In a way this approach is disruptive in itself and that is a good thing.

Highly recommended as a useful and valuable book that takes the idea of disruption and gives you a way to think through it and put it into practice.  In less than 200 tightly written pages, Williams provides clear and compelling tools that you can use to help identify, classify, and find the opportunities for disruption in your products, services and organization.

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Pearson & McGraw-Hill make multi-million dollar investment in Inkling [Kirsten Winkler]

On 03/23/2011, in change, changing business models, cost of getting a degree, digital learning, digital textbooks, disruption, e-books, e-readers, multimedia, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, publishing, textbooks, by Daniel Christian

Pearson & McGraw-Hill make multi-million dollar investment in Inkling — from Kirsten Winkler

It seems as if the latest study from Xplana in which they predict that the tipping point for digital textbooks is as near as 2015 has opened up the wallets of two major publishers for an undisclosed “multi million Dollar” investment.

Inkling, the maker of the iPad application and platform which delivers enhanced and engaging textbooks, leaving the “flat, PDF-based digital textbooks” behind is the beneficiary and it could give the startup a competitive edge over the well funded competitor the Kno.

But as money is not everything Inkling, Pearson and McGraw-Hill also made some significant content commitments, boosting the number of titles available on the Inkling platform…

 

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Blockbuster’s largest shareholder calls Blockbuster worst investment ever made

On 03/23/2011, in 21st century, change, changing business models, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, disruption, future of higher education, game-changing environment, leadership, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, online learning, pace of change, staying relevant, strategy, surviving, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

Blockbuster’s largest shareholder calls Blockbuster worst investment ever made — from FastCompany.com by Austin Carr

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After years as Blockbuster’s largest shareholder, Carl Icahn, who at one point amassed some 17 million shares of the now-bankrupt company, has called Blockbuster “the worst investment I ever made.”

In a candid piece written for the Harvard Business Review, Icahn opens up about the rental giant’s struggles and failures in an ever-changing industry.

“[Blockbuster] failed because of too much debt and changes in the industry. It had too many stores, Netflix created a better business model, and then Redbox kiosks and the whole digital phenomenon eliminated the need for consumers to go to a separate DVD store,” Icahn wrote. “Maybe the board did make a mistake in picking Jim Keyes as [John] Antioco’s successor—Keyes knows retailing and did an excellent job with the stores, but he isn’t a digital guy.”

From DSC:
I write about Blockbuster — and I emphasize the items above — because Blockbuster did not respond to the changes that were occurring around them.

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What about those of us in higher education?
How’s our response(s) coming along?

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The pace has changed -- don't come onto the track in a Model T

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Staying Relevant

 

5/2/11 addendum:

4/7/11 addendum:


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Christensen on disruptive innovation in higher education [via Lloyd Armstrong]

On 03/23/2011, in business side of he, cost of getting a degree, disruption, future of higher education, game-changing environment, innovation, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, online learning, quality, strategy, United States, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

Christensen on disruptive innovation in higher education — from Lloyd Armstrong, University Professor and Provost Emeritus at the University of Southern California

Although the absence of an upwardly scalable technology driver has rendered higher education impossible to disrupt in its past, we believe that online learning constitutes such a technology driver and will indeed be capable of disruptively carrying the business model of low-cost universities up-market.

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From Anya Kamenetz on 3-21-11 — DIY U: The transformation of higher education

On 03/22/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, accreditation, active learning, career development, change, changing business models, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, digital learning, disruption, education reform, education technology, engagement / engaging students, future of higher education, game-changing environment, generational differences, global / globalization, higher education, informal learning, innovation, learning, learning ecosystem, more voice more choice more control, motivation, new business models, participation, personalized/customized learning, presentations, professional development, relationships, social learning / networks, staying relevant, strategy, student teaching/teacher education, student-related, surviving, teaching & learning, technology (general), traditional / tradition, trends, web-based collaboration, workplace, by Daniel Christian

The transformatin of higher education -- 3-21-11 presentation by Anya Kamenetz

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The transformatin of higher education -- 3-21-11 presentation by Anya Kamenetz

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From DSC:
For those of us in more traditional institutions of higher education, if this is where things are heading — or even if pieces of Anya’s presentation come to fruition — what is our response? Strategy?

 

 

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How Netflix innovates and wins

On 03/17/2011, in business, disruption, innovation, leadership, reinvent, strategy, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

How Netflix innovates and wins — from Forbes.com by Chunka Mui

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):

Netflix illustrates a design principle that any company aspiring to succeed at disruptive innovation must adopt. It has four parts:

  1. Think Big
  2. Start Small
  3. Fail Quickly
  4. Scale Fast

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Hastings pursued his big idea, streaming video, even though it would render obsolete his wonderfully successful, highly tuned, mail-based system for distributing DVDs.

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Disrupting the learning dynamic with technology; PBS special on digital media

On 03/11/2011, in 21st century, digital learning, disruption, education technology, emerging technologies, by Daniel Christian

Disrupting the learning dynamic with technology — from Cisco

So how can technology disrupt the academic learning dynamic as effectively as it has disrupted the process for becoming more adept with social engagements? A new PBS documentary, Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century, explores this subject in depth. View an excerpt from the documentary…

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Is Apple the Forthcoming Walmart of Education?

On 03/03/2011, in Apple, cost of getting a degree, Daniel S. Christian, disruption, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, by Daniel Christian

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Joshua Kim at InsideHigherEd.com writes of an iPad 2 LMS Fantasy

  • Integrated Speech-to-Text Authoring
  • Integrated Video Authoring
  • Voice-Over Presentation Capture and Sharing
  • Synchronous Class Discussions and Virtual Office Hours
  • Deep Integration with iTunesU

…and Joshua ends his Apple LMS fantasy in this manner:

“Speculation is that Apple will eventually move into producing full educational programs, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees through the new Apple University application.”

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From DSC:
Will Apple turn out to be the Forthcoming Walmart of Education? I’m not sure, but business models are morphing and a variety of pressures are at play within higher education that are causing massive changes and disruption…time will tell. In the meantime, fasten your seatbelts and keep all of your hands and arms inside the vehicle!

Also see:

Enhanced Facetime will be great for remote lectures or office hours, high-definition video editing will facilitate exploratory learning and reporting, and real-time image mirroring will stylize lectures in science, history, and geography. Additionally, mobile learning is made possible through the iOS 4.3 hotspot update, permitting Internet connectivity for apple phones, tablets, and laptops. This will be especially valuable for recession-hit school districts, such as Detroit, scrambling for ways to solve ballooning class sizes. Skeptical educators can be relieved that the iPad was deemed classroom ready by Reed College, and that remote learning can be just as effective as in-class lecturing.

 

 

 

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iPad 2 announced

On 03/03/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, accessibility / UDL, Apple, convergence, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, e-books, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, mobile learning, mobile technologies, online learning, online media, tablets, transmedia, videoconferencing, by Daniel Christian

Apple announced the second version of its iPad device (on 3/2/11)

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Apple announced on 3-2-11 the latest version of its iPad product line

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Learning with the iPad

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Welcome to the Networked Society [Gerd Leonhard at Mobile World Congress 2011]

On 02/25/2011, in business, convergence, disruption, economics, Europe, future, social learning / networks, sociology, by Daniel Christian

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Different takes on the perfect storm within higher ed, but a storm nonetheless…

On 02/24/2011, in change, changing business models, colleges, disruption, expectations, internet, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, student-related, trends, universities, by Daniel Christian

A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part I — from The Chronicle by Thomas H. Benton (Thomas H. Benton is the pen name of William Pannapacker, an associate professor of English at Hope College, in Holland, Mich. He writes about academic culture.)

From DSC:
My take on the perfect storm within higher education:

Also see (emphasis DSC):

  • Dinosaur U. — from Forbes.com by Steve Forbes, Editor-in-Chief
    The Internet is about to do to America’s universities and colleges what it’s done to media and entertainment–profoundly upend them. And improve them. To get a flavor of what’s coming take a look at Louis Lataif’s Forbes.com piece, “Universities on the Brink” (Feb. 1). Lataif, dean emeritus of Boston University School of Management and a former president of Ford Europe, bluntly calls the rapid rise in tuitions a bubble resembling those that hit housing in the last decade and Silicon Valley in the late 1990s.
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    The tuition bubble is about to burst.

 


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DEMO 2011 – February 28, 2011

On 02/23/2011, in disruption, education technology, emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, innovation, trends, by Daniel Christian

DEMO 2011 event -- February 28, 2011

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[Kevin Kelly] Better than free: How value is generated in a free copy world

On 02/19/2011, in attention, business, convergence, copyright/ownership/NFTs, digital audio, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, future, interactivity, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, publishing, storytelling, by Daniel Christian

Better than free: How value is generated in a free copy world

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Brief summary/notes from DSC:
Per Kevin Kelly (Feb 2011), the future is about 6 verbs:

  1. Screening — we are moving from being “people of the book” to “people of the screen”
  2. Interacting
  3. Sharing
  4. Accessing — not owning
  5. Flowing — streams/flows of data and information, tags, clouds, not pages, real time, always on (24x7x3765), everywhere, no sense of being completed, feeds, flows of data, books will operate in this same environment
  6. Generating — not copying; pressure on things to become free; value is in things that cannot be copied (easily or cheaply). We want “easy to pay for but hard to copy”; things such as:
  • immediacy
  • personalization
  • authentication
  • findability
  • embodiment
  • interpretation
  • accessibility
  • attention

Originally from — and see:

  • Gerd Leonhard at the Futures Agency.com
  • …and with thanks to O’Reilly for publishing this!
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Watson ties top players in Jeopardy — “Disrupting Class” phenomenon continues

On 02/15/2011, in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, assistive technologies, disruption, education technology, emerging technologies, game-changing environment, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, learner profiles, learning agents, learning ecosystem, personalized/customized learning, the downsides of how people use tech, by Daniel Christian

Computer ties human as they square off on ‘Jeopardy!’ — from CNN.com

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IBM's Watson computer is competing against former champs Ken Jennings, left, and Brad Rutter on "Jeopardy!" this week.

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To be clear, I celebrate what the LORD has created and given to us in our amazingly-complex minds! I do not subscribe to the idea that robots are better than humans or that technologies are to be glorified and that technologies will save the world — not at all. (In fact, I have some concerns about the havoc that could easily occur if certain technologies wound up in the wrong hands — with those who have no fear of the LORD and who have massive amounts of pride…with hearts of stone.)

Getting back to my point…
The phenomenon that Christensen, Horn, and Johnson describe in Disrupting Class continues to play out in higher education/K-12. The innovations are mainly happening outside the face-to-face T&L environments.

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Interesting post from Jon Bischke: Learning Graph + Reputation Graph = Massive Disruption in Higher Ed?

On 02/12/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, assessment, career development, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, competency-based learning/education, disruption, higher education, K-12 related, learner profiles, learning agents, learning ecosystem, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Learning Graph + Reputation Graph = Massive Disruption in Higher Ed? — from Jon Bischke

From DSC:
Jon gets at something similar to my thoughts on cloud-based learner profiles. Jon links to — and also see — Kirsten Winkler’s posting from August 2010:

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