{"id":40755,"date":"2013-06-20T10:51:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=40755"},"modified":"2013-06-20T11:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T15:45:39","slug":"change-is-optional-survival-is-not-guaranteed-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/06\/20\/change-is-optional-survival-is-not-guaranteed-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Change is optional, survival is not guaranteed [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Then globalization and the Internet changed everything. Customers suddenly had real choices, access to instant reliable information and the ability to communicate with each other. Power in the marketplace shifted from seller to buyer. Customers started insisting on \u2018better, cheaper, quicker and smaller,\u2019 along with \u2018more convenient, reliable and personalized.\u2019 Continuous, even transformational, innovation have become requirements for survival.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Steve Denning, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stevedenning\/2013\/05\/30\/the-management-revolution-thats-already-happening\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Management Revolution That\u2019s Already Happening<\/a>,\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Forbes Magazine<\/em>, May 30, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolllution.com\/distance_online_learning\/change-optional-survival-guaranteed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40756\" alt=\"ChangeIsOptionalDanielChristian-evolllutionDotcom-June2013\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ChangeIsOptionalDanielChristian-evolllutionDotcom-June2013.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ChangeIsOptionalDanielChristian-evolllutionDotcom-June2013.jpg 708w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ChangeIsOptionalDanielChristian-evolllutionDotcom-June2013-94x150.jpg 94w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ChangeIsOptionalDanielChristian-evolllutionDotcom-June2013-647x1024.jpg 647w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielschristian.com\/documents\/ChangeIsOptional-SurvivalIsNotGuaranteed-DanielChristian-June2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PDF of article here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then globalization and the Internet changed everything. Customers suddenly had real choices, access to instant reliable information and the ability to communicate with each other. Power in the marketplace shifted from seller to buyer. Customers started insisting on \u2018better, cheaper, quicker and smaller,\u2019 along with \u2018more convenient, reliable and personalized.\u2019 Continuous, even transformational, innovation have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,302,57,159,72,36,35,3,74,436,310,66,212,214],"tags":[52,628,303,653,606,641,586,585,566,661,607,637,779,722,579,603,678,679],"class_list":["post-40755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-leadership","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-universities","tag-budgetary","tag-colleges","tag-community-college","tag-dangers-of-the-status-quo","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-disruption","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education","tag-innovation","tag-leadership","tag-perfect-storm","tag-reinvent","tag-staying-relevant","tag-strategy","tag-student-related","tag-surviving","tag-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40755"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40770,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40755\/revisions\/40770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}