(or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New World Order)
HighEdWeb Regional Conference
April 24, 2009
- PowerPoint Presentation (PPT 11 MB)
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Contact Information
Mark Greenfield
Director of Web Services
Mail Drop: 109 Norton Hall
Office Location: 454 Porter Hall
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, N.Y. 14260
Phone: (716)645-2811
Fax: (716)645-7761
Email: markgr@buffalo.edu
Abstract
What happens when web development becomes a commodity? Globalization 3.0, the arrival of the technically adept Millennial Generation, and the ongoing Communications Revolution will create a perfect storm that will forever change the college campus and the way we work. The services provided by web professionals will be disaggregated, distributed, produced and reassembled with amazing efficiency. It may well be that many of our services will be outsourced in the relatively near future.
This presentation will explore the forces of globalization and free agency and the changes in what we call work, how and why the higher education web profession will get flattened, and provide guidance on how to not only survive, but thrive in this new paradigm.
Recommended Books
- Cairncross, Francis. The Death of Distance. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School, 1997
- Covey, Stephen. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. New York, NY: Fireside, 1989
- Covey, Stephen. The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness. New York, NY: Free Press, 2004
- Duderstadt, James. A University for the 21st Century. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 2000
- Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat Version 2.0. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
- Godin, Seth. Small is the New Big. New York, NY: Penquin Group, 2006
- Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence. New York NY: Bantam Books, 2007
- Goleman, Daniel. Social Intelligence. New York NY: Bantam Books, 2007
- Howe, Neil and Strauss, William. Millennials Go to College. American Association of Collegiate Registrars 2nd Edition. 2007
- Kurzweil, Ray.The Singularity is Near. New York NY: Penquin, 2005
- Malone, Thomas. Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century. Boston, MA: MIT Press, 2003
- Reichheld, Fred. The Ultimate Question. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School,2006
- Pink, Daniel. Free Agent Nation. New York, NY: Warner Business Books. 2001
- Pink, Daniel. A Whole New Mind. New York, NY: Penguin Books 2005
- Tapscott, Daniel and Williams, Anthony. Wikinomics. New York, NY: Penquin Group, 2006
Links
- Radiohead – In Rainbows
- Deseret News | Universities will be ‘irrelevant’ by 2020, Y. professor says
- Cornell non-faculty and non-union layoffs total 121
- Staff Jobs on Campus Outpace Enrollment
- Should Colleges Continue to Host Email for Their Students?
- What Colleges Should Learn From Newspapers’ Decline
- Australian University Decides to Outsource Its Entire IT Department
- More for Less
- Openness and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education
- College slashes storage costs with Google Gmail
- Squeeze Play: How Parents and the Public Look at Higher Education Today
- Upsurge in student loans threatens economy
- Want Fries With Outsourcing?
YouTube Video
- Tom Friedman Discussing the World is Flat (from MIT 2005)
- Tom Friedman Discussing the World is Flat 3.0 (from MIT 2007)
- Did You Know
- What If