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Brad Wheeler's presentation at Educause 2009TRANSCRIPT
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Collaboration is Strategy
Brad WheelerIndiana University
© Brad Wheeler, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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What is Strategy?
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Seeking Competitive Advantage
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Michael E. Porter1. Operational effectiveness is not strategy
2. Strategy rests on unique activities
3. Inter-relatedness of activities can be inimitable
4. Trade-offs are essential
Porter, “What is Strategy?” HBR, 1996.
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Activities
•Buying equipment
•Shipping an order
•Paying an invoice
•Choosing store locations
•Product design •Product rollouts
•Handling a return
•Pricing choices
•Adding features
•Avoiding features
•Labor policies
•Sales channel choices
•Packaging
•Support policies
•Choosing partners
•Execution with Partners
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“The essence of strategy is choosing to perform activities differently than rivals do.”
Porter, HBR, 1996, p. 64
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“…to achieve sustainable competitive advantage by preserving what is distinctive about a company.
It means performing different activities from rivals, or performing similar activities in different ways.”
Porter, 1996
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But….
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Sustainable Competitive Advantage? …Higher Ed?
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Education and Research
Our industry is different…but is our behavior?
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The essence of collaboration as strategy is choosing to perform activities similarly to partners
…and driving down costs via leverage.
Competitive Strategy: “The essence of strategy is choosing to perform activities differently than rivals do.”
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What is Collaboration?
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An Unnatural Act
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EDUCAUSE members are prolific writers regarding collaboration
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“Collaboration is not he same as cooperation. Collaboration requires alignment around a common goal. Collaboration is about doing something together. Collaboration only lasts as long as the alignment around common purpose lasts.”
James Hilton, U. of Virginia
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To “co – labor”
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Domains for Collaboration
Individuals Departments Schools Campuses Institutions
Chal
leng
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Valu
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Slope of R
etreat
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Experience Yields Improvement
Individuals Departments Schools Campuses Institutions
Chal
leng
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Valu
e $
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Why Collaborate?
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“Our academic leadership is increasingly embracing the notion of coordinating business objectives and leveraging resources with other institutions and within our own university.
The maturity of community source governance, the stream of Kuali deliverables, and the stature of the community members all contribute to this. It really does represent a breakthrough, not just for Kuali, but as a way of thinking…”
Ted Dodds, University of British Columbia
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In the process of [HathiTrust] collaboration, participants are forced to solidify their own institutional goals… Bringing UC point of view to the table has involved examining our own goals.
Heather Christenson, U. of California
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The New Normal
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Essential Tool for the New Normal
• Achieve more…• Serve our mission…• Favorable economics (over time)…• Align institution to external environment…
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Leverage
$ $$$
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2 + 2 = 3 ?2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 5 ?
Collaboration Math
John Norman, U. of Cambridge
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“HathiTrust partners = tons of expertise. A richness of talent at the individual level that we can tap into -- Diversity of opinions and healthy debate leads to more robust processes.
Finding the appropriate level of standardization versus customization is a true challenge (especially in technical matters)”
Heather Christenson, U. of California
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“The aspect of the Kuali Community that Colorado State University is perhaps most grateful for is the team of exceptional technical folks who assist one another with problems and issues, on what seems almost a 24x7 schedule.
We are MUCH stronger together than apart, and we have observed the expertise of the group steadily spiral upward as a result.”
Patrick Burns, Colorado State U.
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Main Reason to Collaborate…
It serves our mission
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Co-Laboring towards the Meta-university
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“…we are seeing the early emergence of a meta-university – a transcendent, accessible, empowering, dynamic, communally constructed framework of open materials and platforms on which much of higher education worldwide can be constructed or enhanced.”
EDUCAUSE Review, May/June 2006, p. 30.
Charles M. VestPresident Emeritus, MIT
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c
Library Books
c
Textbooks
cPUBLICKNOWLEDGEPROJECT
Journals
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Learning
c
Administrative
Meta-university Collaborations
(Just to name a few…)
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“The meta-university will enable, not replace, residential campuses, especially in wealthier regions. It will bring cost-efficiencies to institutions through the shared development of educational materials. It will be adaptive, not prescriptive.”
EDUCAUSE Review, May/June 2006, p. 30.
Charles M. VestPresident Emeritus, MIT
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Working in the Collaborative Era
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Higher Ed Ecosystem
Academic and Commercial
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Kuali Commercial Affiliates
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Personal Observations
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“Overcoming local DIY culture is a constant struggle, though the degree seems to vary according to institutional profile (we could use more Delta Colleges!).
I’m not sure the penny has quite dropped in that majority of minds that it is far preferable to align local efforts with those of our partners than to stray back into purely local solutions.”
Unattributed
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“A key part of our strategy is knowing when and where we should be collaborating, and when and where should be competing [striving for differentiation] - it isn't usually real competition anyway).
And, in today's world, the line is moving quickly in such a way that we need to collaborate more than we compete.”
Kevin Morooney, Penn State University
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“This release is the culmination of everything (and more!) we set out to deliver back in 2005 when the functional and development teams first formed. At times, it seemed like we would never get here.
The amazing thing to me is the incredible number of people from our institutions that have had a hand in this accomplishment. …It certainly wasn’t easy. No one promised it would be a walk in the park. The fact remains that we all persevered and made it.”
Jim Thomas, Kuali Financials Project Manager
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My Observations
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Collaboration Essentials• Goal alignment• Values alignment• Temporal alignment• Talent alignment• Governance clarity (input/decision rights)• Problem solving alignment
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Collaborations are fundamentally dynamic. Unlike cooperation, I would argue that collaboration can never be a permanent default condition. It requires constant explicit attention.
You can pledge to be nice forever (I.e., cooperate), but not to collaborate forever.
James Hilton, U. of Virginia
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Many Ways to Collaborate
Design, Comment, Code, Test, Document, Educate…
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Collaborative Capability
Can’t be boughtMust be grown via experience
…Trust?
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“Life’s a dance you learn as you goSometimes you lead, sometimes you followDon’t worry ‘bout what you don’t knowLife’s a dance you learn as you go”
Allen Shamblin, Steve SeskinSung by Michael Montgomery
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The Collaborative IT Agenda
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1. Federated Identity…now!
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2. CloudsXXXXX
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Above Campus ServicesShaping the Promise of Cloud Computing for Higher Education
by Brad Wheeler and Shelton Waggener
Illustration by Randy Lyhus ©2009EDUCAUSE Review, Nov/Dec 2009
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Sourcing Models
Above Campus Services:– Commercial Sourcing– Institutional Sourcing– Consortium Sourcing
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Collaboration is Strategy
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Back to Porter…
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The essence of collaboration as strategy is choosing to perform activities similarly to partners
…and driving down costs via leverage.
Competitive Strategy: “The essence of strategy is choosing to perform activities differently than rivals do.”
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Collaborating is an Activity
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Assessing Collaboration as Strategy Operational effectiveness is not strategy
Strategy rests on unique activities
Inter-relatedness of activities can be inimitable
Trade-offs are essential
Porter, “What is Strategy?” HBR, 1996.
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“Consistent with this statement of policy, throughout my years of responsibility for administration I have been motivated by a strong belief that the resources of higher education are so insufficient and the opportunities and responsibilities so vast, the only sensible course is to attempt in every way to avoid unnecessary duplication among or with institutions.”
Herman B Wells, Being Lucky, 1980, p. 135President of Indiana University, 1938-1962
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Collaboration is Strategy
Brad WheelerIndiana University
© Brad Wheeler, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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Session Abstract: As open content, "above campus" economies of scale, and cloud services shape the environment for education and research, effective collaboration becomes an essential tool for IT leaders and leading institutions. Collaboration is more than guarded partnerships or money—it requires a cohesive vision, new attitudes, principled trust, and execution to achieve valued outcomes for institutional goals. Collaborative capabilities cannot be bought; they are developed through behavior.
Collaboration is Strategy