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Triple Convergence…

Triple Convergence…. And the Great Sorting Out. Triple Convergence. Convergence 1 Hardware and Software coming together Southwest Airlines boarding passes printed on Konica multi-task printer. What examples of Convergence 1 do you see? Work Life? Home Life? Both?. Triple Convergence.

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Triple Convergence…

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  1. Triple Convergence… And the Great Sorting Out

  2. Triple Convergence • Convergence 1 • Hardware and Software coming together • Southwest Airlines boarding passes printed on Konica multi-task printer. • What examples of Convergence 1 do you see? • Work Life? • Home Life? • Both?

  3. Triple Convergence • Convergence II • Horizontal and Vertical Convergence • Technology converged with business practice and skills. Each reinforced each other. Developed Material User Know-how How does this top down to more horizontal convergence apply to education? Does it apply to education?

  4. Triple Convergence • Convergence III • New Players, New Playing Field = Developing New Processes for Horizontal Collaboration. • 1.5 Billion people came into the Global workforce • = to the entire U.S. Workforce • Zippies • More than ½ Indian population under the age of 25. How does that affect the convergence? • Questions? • Do you think Americans are still innovators? • What about American Universities? • Competition from countries developing their own leading institutions. • University in China • American Schools being moved to other countries. • Campuses in India. • Is there any change in American Society in the past that you can compare to the Triple Convergence?

  5. The Great Sorting Out Transition from: Command and Control System Value Creation Model To: Connect and Collaborate

  6. The Great Sorting Out Issues needing Sorting: • India vs Indiana- Who’s exploiting Whom? • Where do companies stop and start? • Command/Control vs. Colaborate/Connect. • Multiple Identity Disorder. • Who owns what? • Death of a Salesman.

  7. The Great Sorting Out India vs Indiana- Who’s exploiting Whom? • Who needs to benefit from collaboration? • Taxpayers? • US Workers? • Indian Engineers? • Who do you think was the “winner” in this story? • Was anyone? • Who lost?

  8. The Great Sorting Out Where do companies stop and start? • IBM? • Is it a US company? What do you think? • What about McDonald’s? • Australian kids thought that KFC was an Australian company. • What other companies do you know of that are more “global” than nation-centric?

  9. The Great Sorting Out Command/Control vs. Collaborate/Connect • “Big guys” do “little guy” things. • Colin Powell doing his own research sending his own correspondence to connect with other officials around the world. • Allows them to expect action from workers instead of research. • Question? • Does this apply to anything in education? Administrators, etc.? • “Little guy to Big Guy” • Patients go to doctors prepared with information about their ailments. • Action sooner? • Doctors and patients can collaborate more. Patients understand their disease more? Benefits, drawbacks. • What other collaborations can you think of?

  10. The Great Sorting Out • Multiple Identity Disorder • Consumers • Employees • Citizens • Taxpayers • Shareholders • WalMart vs. Costco approach • With your identities which do you prefer? • Drugs • Cheap or Safe?

  11. The Great Sorting Out Who owns what? • Global Governance • Governments keeping up with legal, illegal forms of collaboration. • Do you think there are going to be “new” international laws for keeping things in line? • New ruling “world” bodies make up these laws? • Are there any now? • Personal Property • How many of you have your electronic data/property listed in your wills? • Should Yahoo, etc. have the right to keep this from families?

  12. The Great Sorting Out Death of a Salesman • Human Contact • Disappearing? • Where have you lost human contact that you used to have? • Business and Life • Human connection> Being smart • Is this still true? • Examples? • Trimming and Saving the “fat”. • Where do you see the absence of human contact a benefit/loss in your life?

  13. Convergence and The Great Sorting Out More thoughts and ideas? • Do you think the world is converging faster than we can get these things sorted out? • Anything else?

  14. Convergence and The Great Sorting Out One Final thought……. • Since the world is flatter, will the people on it purchase fewer hiking boots?

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