Comments on: Aggregation of Risk in Pursuit of Disruptive Technologies http://dltj.org/article/collective-action-letter/ We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:58:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Punya Upadhyaya http://dltj.org/article/collective-action-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-11162 Punya Upadhyaya Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:23:39 +0000 http://dltj.org/?p=15#comment-11162 We have had some successes in building multi-system alliances with audacious and 'disruptive' goals using a method called "Appreciative Inquiry" in many different organizational settings. It was developed at Case Western - and one of our alumni - Chester Bowling - is a faculty memeber at OSU helping to take this way of change to organizations in Ohio. Maybe you could chat with him. Cheers Punya We have had some successes in building multi-system alliances with audacious and ‘disruptive’ goals using a method called “Appreciative Inquiry” in many different organizational settings. It was developed at Case Western – and one of our alumni – Chester Bowling – is a faculty memeber at OSU helping to take this way of change to organizations in Ohio. Maybe you could chat with him.

Cheers

Punya

]]> By: The Business Innovation Insider http://dltj.org/article/collective-action-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-10786 The Business Innovation Insider Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:15:24 +0000 http://dltj.org/?p=15#comment-10786 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Looks like there's a counter-revolt of sorts going on in the world of education, as librarians and educators - tired of being marginalized by technology (i.e. Google) - are fighting back. In Ohio, for example, librarians and educators are banding together to come up with a comprehensive strategy of disruptive innovation. The Disruptive Library Technology Jester has even posted an open letter to disruptive innovation guru Clayton Christensen in the hopes of sparking debate. The letter is noteworthy for another reason - it includes a generous helping of Internet jargon like "truly disruptive innovations" and "loosely coupled organizations." The Disruptive Library Technology Jester is a young blog (established in December 2005), but it looks like there's a lot of energy here. The tagline for the blog is "We’re Disrupted, We’re Libraries, and We’re Not Going to Take It Anymore..." [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] Looks like there’s a counter-revolt of sorts going on in the world of education, as librarians and educators – tired of being marginalized by technology (i.e. Google) – are fighting back. In Ohio, for example, librarians and educators are banding together to come up with a comprehensive strategy of disruptive innovation. The Disruptive Library Technology Jester has even posted an open letter to disruptive innovation guru Clayton Christensen in the hopes of sparking debate. The letter is noteworthy for another reason – it includes a generous helping of Internet jargon like “truly disruptive innovations” and “loosely coupled organizations.” The Disruptive Library Technology Jester is a young blog (established in December 2005), but it looks like there’s a lot of energy here. The tagline for the blog is “We’re Disrupted, We’re Libraries, and We’re Not Going to Take It Anymore…” [...]

]]> By: SmartClassroom http://dltj.org/article/collective-action-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-5732 SmartClassroom Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:41:36 +0000 http://dltj.org/?p=15#comment-5732 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Establish a shared infrastructure pilot project within a cohort of institutions with something in common, with some reason to share insights or services. In Ohio, the Ohio Learning Network is sponsoring an open source testbed and more than 40 Ohio schools are evaluating a suite of open source tools. The Ohio Board of Regents has established a project called Collective Action (the open letter posted here provides some background on “Collective Action” and the concept of pooled risk) to aggregate and share open source experiences and to evaluate the viability of a shared open source (or hybrid) eLearning infrastructure. [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] Establish a shared infrastructure pilot project within a cohort of institutions with something in common, with some reason to share insights or services. In Ohio, the Ohio Learning Network is sponsoring an open source testbed and more than 40 Ohio schools are evaluating a suite of open source tools. The Ohio Board of Regents has established a project called Collective Action (the open letter posted here provides some background on “Collective Action” and the concept of pooled risk) to aggregate and share open source experiences and to evaluate the viability of a shared open source (or hybrid) eLearning infrastructure. [...]

]]> By: Open Source Software: Should You Bet Your Career On It? in Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/article/collective-action-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-2369 Open Source Software: Should You Bet Your Career On It? in Disruptive Library Technology Jester Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:15:17 +0000 http://dltj.org/?p=15#comment-2369 [...] Establish a shared infrastructure pilot project within a cohort of institutions with something in common, with some reason to share insights or services. In Ohio, the Ohio Learning Network is sponsoring an open source testbed and more than 40 Ohio schools are evaluating a suite of open source tools. The Ohio Board of Regents has established a project called Collective Action (the open letter posted here provides some background on “Collective Action” and the concept of pooled risk) to aggregate and share open source experiences and to evaluate the viability of a shared open source (or hybrid) eLearning infrastructure. ¶ [...] [...] Establish a shared infrastructure pilot project within a cohort of institutions with something in common, with some reason to share insights or services. In Ohio, the Ohio Learning Network is sponsoring an open source testbed and more than 40 Ohio schools are evaluating a suite of open source tools. The Ohio Board of Regents has established a project called Collective Action (the open letter posted here provides some background on “Collective Action” and the concept of pooled risk) to aggregate and share open source experiences and to evaluate the viability of a shared open source (or hybrid) eLearning infrastructure. ¶ [...]

]]> By: Appreciating our Heritage while Embracing a Future in Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/article/collective-action-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-2031 Appreciating our Heritage while Embracing a Future in Disruptive Library Technology Jester Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:56:51 +0000 http://dltj.org/?p=15#comment-2031 [...] Addressing the first point, with rare exceptions I don’t see institutions as organizations scaling up their technical staff to handle the raw building tasks of the kinds of services we’d like to see in a reconstituted vision of the library. I do see some evidence that progress is being made here and there, but there are no large programming shops being built to create the next ILS-equivalent. (Side note: I hereby apologize for the connotations created by the phrase “next ILS-equivalent” — that phrase makes sense to me on the surface but it causes deep shudderings in my bones.) I have come to believe, though, that tools and techniques from the open source world can be used to aggregate the capabilities resident in the distributed “libraryland” to share the risk and reward of the next ILS-equivalent (damn — I used it again). I wrote about that earlier in an open letter to adherents to Christensen’s philosophies called Aggregation of Risk in Pursuit of Disruptive Technologies (comments on that post are still welcome to as we move forward in Ohio with the concepts outline there). Also, a colleague from Ohio State and I co-authored an article for the SmartClassroom newsletter of Campus Technology about “betting your career” on open source that I think will have relevance here. The article is to be published on the 19th and I’ll post a copy on DLTJ after a seven-day embargo. ¶ [...] [...] Addressing the first point, with rare exceptions I don’t see institutions as organizations scaling up their technical staff to handle the raw building tasks of the kinds of services we’d like to see in a reconstituted vision of the library. I do see some evidence that progress is being made here and there, but there are no large programming shops being built to create the next ILS-equivalent. (Side note: I hereby apologize for the connotations created by the phrase “next ILS-equivalent” — that phrase makes sense to me on the surface but it causes deep shudderings in my bones.) I have come to believe, though, that tools and techniques from the open source world can be used to aggregate the capabilities resident in the distributed “libraryland” to share the risk and reward of the next ILS-equivalent (damn — I used it again). I wrote about that earlier in an open letter to adherents to Christensen’s philosophies called Aggregation of Risk in Pursuit of Disruptive Technologies (comments on that post are still welcome to as we move forward in Ohio with the concepts outline there). Also, a colleague from Ohio State and I co-authored an article for the SmartClassroom newsletter of Campus Technology about “betting your career” on open source that I think will have relevance here. The article is to be published on the 19th and I’ll post a copy on DLTJ after a seven-day embargo. ¶ [...]

]]> By: Disruptive Library Technology Jester » http://dltj.org/article/collective-action-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Disruptive Library Technology Jester » Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:18:02 +0000 http://dltj.org/?p=15#comment-8 [...] Clayton Christensen (4) [...] [...] Clayton Christensen (4) [...]

]]> By: Endless Innovation http://dltj.org/article/collective-action-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-11999 Endless Innovation Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:42:01 +0000 http://dltj.org/?p=15#comment-11999 <!--%kramer-pre%-->being marginalized by technology (i.e. Google) - are fighting back. In Ohio, for example, librarians and educators are banding together to come up with a comprehensive strategy of disruptive innovation. The Disruptive Library Technology Jester has even posted an open letter<!--%kramer-post%--> links from Technoratibeing marginalized by technology (i.e. Google) – are fighting back. In Ohio, for example, librarians and educators are banding together to come up with a comprehensive strategy of disruptive innovation. The Disruptive Library Technology Jester has even posted an open letter

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