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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I’m not sure where I’ll be in five years (geography-wise or career-wise), but I would like to remember a few main concepts from this class:
– Disruption can be caused by abundance, not just scarcity, and the results of that disruption can eliminate an existing company’s business model. I had not really thought about disruption that way.
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Celia — I was just thinking about 3D printing this morning, so I’m glad you posted about it. Although 3D printers are still costly, there is a lot of crowd-sourcing going on to help develop and improve what can be printed from them, especially in regard to prosthetics. This article from the NYTimes talks about how much easier and how much cheaper…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Wow. I didn’t realize that Encarta lasted that long. I vaguely remember loading an “Encyclopedia Encarta” CD on my computer either my freshman or sophomore year college, but it was mostly for fun rather than for real research. Even back then I was using online libraries instead of going to one in person — they usually weren’t open at the times I…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Nirav — I agree. I also worked in publishing (I spent more than a decade in it before leaving the industry), and I certainly hope there is room for both types — traditional publishers and self-publishers — although traditional publishing needs to make a lot of changes if it wants to survive. Given the options authors have these days, especially…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Dan, interesting that you brought up Wikipedia. I worked for a academic/professional reference publisher many years ago. Their catalog mainly consisted of very specific encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference guides, etc (things like “The A to Z Biography of Vice Presidents,” “The Encyclopedia of Women Scientists,” “The Encyclopedia of Animation,”…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Reading Question: Community of Practice, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I didn’t phase my question clearly, although I do like your definition. What I meant to ask is this: What city are you talking about? (I’m just curious.)
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Reading Question: Disruption of Abundance, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Chase — I was also thinking about the connection between this reading question and Google/encyclopedias. I remember my parents had a complete set of The Book of Knowledge encyclopedia when my brother and I were kids. If we had questions, we had to look it up. Now if I sit around with friends at a bar discussing random facts and if someone doesn’t…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Reading Question: Disruption of Abundance, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Nicholas — that was a great post connecting disruption of abundance to current and past medial innovations. As a patient, I would hope that doctors use the tools best-able to diagnose a potential problem, especially if that tool is readily available, even if it meant removing a tool that is associated with the profession itself. I’d imagine…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Case Question: Open Innovation, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Chase – it sounds like your company is successfully implementing (internal) open innovation. If you were there when the concept was first introduced, do you remember the initial reaction? Were employees (and/or management) excited by the idea and possibilities or was the thinking closer to something like “they’ll never act on our ideas?” How did…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Reading Question: Disruptive Change and Book Publishing, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Brandon – it’s an interesting idea that agents will become less necessary while publishers will still remain needed, but I’m not sure one that I agree with. A lot of posts here have mentioned that publishers remain valid because of their marketing capabilities, but I think agents play a similar role. Many agents specialize in certain genres and…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Case Question: Radiohead, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
JiHae — thanks for posting the link to that article. It’s interesting that piracy of In Rainbows was up so much considering people could legally get the album for free. I sort of agree with you that smaller acts may need record labels to help them from discovery to sales, but I think that the ease of creating and distributing digital media means…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Case Question: Radiohead, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Will — like others, I agree with your post, especially your point about Radiohead’s “giveaway” hurting other, smaller artists. It’s great that Radiohead can afford to give their music to fans for free, but like I mentioned in my post, that devalues their work and works created by others (at least in my opinion). If one newspaper gives free access…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Case Question: Radiohead, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
John – I remember wondering why record labels were going after individual users for downloading music … it seemed to me that sharing music (which everyone did even before digital media became popular) was similar to lending a friend a book, but you never heard of publishers going after people for that. On the other hand, it’s virtually…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Case Question: Open Innovation, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
As others have pointed out, culture is the key to successfully implementing open innovation at an organization. The technological tools can be in place and there can be a champion of the cause, but unless the organization’s culture promotes cross-department collaboration, gaining buy-in will be extremely difficult, as evidenced by the Siemens c…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Case Question: Radiohead, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Oops … I forgot to answer part 2 of the question in my response above.
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Radiohead decided to let their fans determine the value of their album through online pre-orders at the band’s website instead of (a) going through a record label or (b) giving the album a set price. Another unusual aspect of their model was the lack of preview tracks –…[Read more] -
Rachel Moir commented on the post, Case Question: Radiohead, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Digital media has several advantages over physical media: quicker and more cost-effective distribution, smaller manufacturing and inventory costs, and generally, less returns due to purchasing policies. On the other hand, digital media, like self-publishing, provides the means for artists to create, record, and distribute their own albums without…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Reading Question: Community of Practice, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
JiHae, yes, you’re correct. I did move from the Northeast to a small town in southwest Georgia. The first year we were here, this “community” did not exist. The group started our second year here, and it made a marked difference in terms of getting through culture shock, figuring out how to get things done, and, dare I say, assimilating into the…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Reading Question: Disruptive Change and Book Publishing, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I do not think the age of agents and publishers is dead, but I do think self-publishing, specifically e-book self-publishing, will force certain genres to change their business model. For example, a non-fiction science book published through Oxford University Press is likely seen as more authentic than a self-published science book (unless the…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Reading Question: Community of Practice, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I think I belong to a community of practice based on a shared concern of learning how to adapt to living in our small town. Members of this community come from cities of various sizes across the country, but we’ve all moved to our current location because of employment at the local university (either following a partner who got a job or being the…[Read more]
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Rachel Moir commented on the post, Case Question: Amazon Web Services, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Michael – I’m not in the health care industry, but do have a question for you related to HIPAA since you obviously have technical expertise related to this week’s discussion. If people are using AWS for HIPAA-related storage, wouldn’t they also need a secure connection between AWS and whatever device the records are being viewed/edited/etc in…[Read more]
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