{"id":41688,"date":"2013-08-07T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T12:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=41688"},"modified":"2013-08-07T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:12:04","slug":"the-lesson-of-commoditization-from-the-washington-post-to-higher-education-selingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/08\/07\/the-lesson-of-commoditization-from-the-washington-post-to-higher-education-selingo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lesson of Commoditization: From The Washington Post to Higher Education [Selingo]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/today\/post\/article\/20130806191515-17000124-the-lesson-of-commoditization-from-the-washington-post-to-higher-education\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Lesson of Commoditization: From The Washington Post to Higher Education<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from LinkedIn.com by Jeff Selingo<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>You have to ask yourself whether you\u2019re inherently a commodity business or inherently an innovation business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8212; A.G. Lafley, CEO Procter &amp; Gamble<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Many colleges face the same problem <em>The Washington Post<\/em> does, and of course, they charge thousands of dollars more for their product. The owners of <em>The Post<\/em> realized that they needed to get out of the commodity business and into the innovation business, and there was no better person to lead the newspaper through that transformation than Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>&#8230;figure out what is truly innovative and different about the campus experience, double down on that and let other players with less expensive models serve the commodity market. In the end, don\u2019t be afraid of putting a piece of what you do now out of business.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">That last sentence speaks directly to what Steve Jobs believed and lived by:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you don&#8217;t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lesson of Commoditization: From The Washington Post to Higher Education &#8212; from LinkedIn.com by Jeff Selingo Excerpts (emphasis DSC): You have to ask yourself whether you\u2019re inherently a commodity business or inherently an innovation business. &#8212; A.G. Lafley, CEO Procter &amp; Gamble Many colleges face the same problem The Washington Post does, and of [&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":[61,86,209,533,36,35,3,180,74,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-experimentation","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41688","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=41688"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41695,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41688\/revisions\/41695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}