The document summarizes a presentation by Jabin White on practical approaches to change and its impact on people. White discusses how change affects different groups within organizations and the importance of an environment that tolerates failure. He presents a case study of a publisher transitioning to XML in the late 1990s that initially failed due to lack of buy-in and proper engagement. White emphasizes focusing change efforts on the majority of people who are open but need convincing, and lists signs that an organization can no longer turn back from change. He closes by stressing that while change is inevitable, people must be supported through the process.
Personal summary of the World Creativity Forum about creativity and innovation at the 16th and 17th November 2011 in Hasselt, Flanders.
Keynotes: Malcolm Gladwell, Alexander Osterwalder, Scott Belski, Peter Hinssen, Garr Reynolds, Keith Sawyer, Jamie Anderson, Patti Maes
creativityworldforum.be
Texts in Dutch and English.
Vision, Values, and Ideas: The Case of Going After Big ChallengesThe Founder Institute
Alex Lightman tells entrepreneurs to cut the nonsense and go after big challenges. He argues that only the most ambitious, daring, and seemingly mammoth ideas are those who often claim victory at the day's end. He lays out a plan to sift through ideas and find the winners, and to create a vision for those great ideas. This ultimately results in success.
This content was produced for the 2015 Los Angeles semester of the Founder Institute by Founder Institute mentor Alex Lightman, author, entrepreneur, and futurist. Check out Alex's website to learn more:
http://alexlightman.com/
Personal summary of the World Creativity Forum about creativity and innovation at the 16th and 17th November 2011 in Hasselt, Flanders.
Keynotes: Malcolm Gladwell, Alexander Osterwalder, Scott Belski, Peter Hinssen, Garr Reynolds, Keith Sawyer, Jamie Anderson, Patti Maes
creativityworldforum.be
Texts in Dutch and English.
Vision, Values, and Ideas: The Case of Going After Big ChallengesThe Founder Institute
Alex Lightman tells entrepreneurs to cut the nonsense and go after big challenges. He argues that only the most ambitious, daring, and seemingly mammoth ideas are those who often claim victory at the day's end. He lays out a plan to sift through ideas and find the winners, and to create a vision for those great ideas. This ultimately results in success.
This content was produced for the 2015 Los Angeles semester of the Founder Institute by Founder Institute mentor Alex Lightman, author, entrepreneur, and futurist. Check out Alex's website to learn more:
http://alexlightman.com/
People-Centric vs. Content-Centric: The Copernican Revolution to be a Social ...Louis Richardson
We're all heavily invested in managing our content, but we still have significant business problems we can't address. Consider a new perspective...a people centric one.
The cats out of the bag! No longer is this elusive topic an enigma anymore. We've uncovered the greatest myths about creativity. These ideas will make you think differently about the world of creativity and business in general.
1. People are either born creative or not at all
2. I can't draw I'm not creative
3. I have writers block
4. Business has nothing to do with creativity
5. Creativity won’t help in my job
Thanks for stopping by! Now keep on rocking in the free world.
Jeph
Execution is one of the most overlooked elements of business. Strategy, finances, and market opportunities seem to get a lot more attention. In my own experience, getting an A+ on execution will beat out the other companies who have A+'s in the more traditional areas.
Michael Edson, Resource Sharing RemixedMichael Edson
Presentation for the 2009 Rethinking Resource Sharing IV forum at the Online Computer Library Consortium (OCLC) campus in Dublin, OH. Focuses on ways to catalyze change -- particularly in regard to digital strategy and asset sharing -- in large organizations. (The slideshow as a compilation is in the public domain, though individual assets may be under copyright as noted.)
As part of our book reading club in eBay, I did a talk about one of my favourites book "The Art of Thinking Clearly". Here are some snapshots from the book in my own words.
This ebook compiles awesome outtakes from SXSW2015. Written by @Briansolis and illustrated by @gapingvoid, it captures why you should be very sorry you failed to get to Austin this year:)
This is another in our series of ebooks that can make your ideas come alive.
James Altucher: 40 Alternatives To CollegeJamesAltucher
UPDATE: I'll tell you 10 More Reasons Why Parents Should Not Send Their Kids to College ---> http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/10-more-reasons-why-parents-should-not-send-their-kids-to-college/
WHY PEOPLE BULLSHIT AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT ITKevin Duncan
A quick analysis of this strange phenomenon, with some suggestions about how to cope with people who bullshit.
bulldictionary.com
Buy the book: http://amzn.to/2doeOTI
Critical thinking is the kind of thinking that specifically looks for problems and mistakes. Regular people don't do a lot of it. However, if you want to be a great tester, you need to be a great critical thinker. Critically thinking testers save projects from dangerous assumptions and ultimately from disasters. The good news is that critical thinking is not just innate intelligence or a talent—it's a learnable and improvable skill you can master. James Bach shares the specific techniques and heuristics of critical thinking and presents realistic testing puzzles that help you practice and increase your thinking skills. Critical thinking begins with just three questions—Huh? Really? and So?—that kick start your brain to analyze specifications, risks, causes, effects, project plans, and anything else that puzzles you. Join James for this interactive, hands-on session and practice your critical thinking skills. Study and analyze product behaviors and experience new ways to identify, isolate, and characterize bugs.
An analysis of why people bullshit and what you can do about it. A taster for The Dictionary of Business Bullshit and asking Kevin to speak on the subject.
How do you become a better writer? Is it something you’re born with or can you learn the skills that are needed. According to Paula Pant, you can get better. Here’s how.
Close your eyes, grasshopper. And imagine a time when music came in cardboard sleeves, your “virtual communication tool” was a phone box, and nobody minded if the soundtrack of a movie didn’t sync with the characters’ lips.
This was the time of martial arts legend Bruce Lee.
Emerging from a 5,000 year old culture, he had great respect for the traditions of his ancestors. But when it came to productivity he was a thoroughly modern man. He built his skills using what later decades would call “life hacking” - short-cuts and best practices to get the job done.
Bruce wasn’t just a master of the five-point palm exploding heart technique; he was also a master of project scoping and effective execution. So if you’re ready to study with the master, let’s enter the temple of productivity … and turn Jeet-Kune-Do into Jeet-Kune-DONE.
Unleashing the Creative Mind of the Test EngineerTechWell
Do we each have a natural capacity for creativity? Can creativity be learned or enhanced? How do we ignite inventiveness? To be competitive in today’s world, it’s important to creatively respond to unanticipated challenges, make new connections, and adapt and continually improve. The good news is that our brains are built for creative problem solving, and it’s easy to discover and enhance our natural inventiveness. Just as scientists adopt scientific methods to design experiments and unravel the mysteries of the world, we need a complementary set of tools and techniques―creative thinking―when we want to invent rather than discover. We each have creative genius waiting to be unlocked! Join Audrey Marak to explore a set of methods and environmental factors you can use to enhance your imagination and increase your ability to create innovative ideas. It’s time to make creative thinking a core part of our development and to reinforce these lessons throughout our lives.
Immerse, Imagine, Invent, Articulate: A framework for disruptive innovationPaulJervisHeath
What new product or service could you invent that would completely change your customers’ lives? How could you disrupt your entire sector?
This practical workshop takes you through an innovation process, helping you to identify the clichés that exist in your sector and giving you the tools and time to redefine them. The workshop provides techniques to disrupt those clichés, generate genuine customer insights, turn opportunities into ideas through proven ideation methods, create a coherent concept and then articulate that concept.
The workshop shows you how to realise a new product or service through a lean process of prototyping and iteration and we discuss case studies each step of the way.
Find out why focus groups are not design research. Find out why the average brainstorm gives ideation a bad name and find out how to make your own innovation processes have tangible business outcomes.
This workshop was ran at UX Cambridge in September 2013 and will be running again at the J. Boye conference in Århus, Denmark in November 2013.
People-Centric vs. Content-Centric: The Copernican Revolution to be a Social ...Louis Richardson
We're all heavily invested in managing our content, but we still have significant business problems we can't address. Consider a new perspective...a people centric one.
The cats out of the bag! No longer is this elusive topic an enigma anymore. We've uncovered the greatest myths about creativity. These ideas will make you think differently about the world of creativity and business in general.
1. People are either born creative or not at all
2. I can't draw I'm not creative
3. I have writers block
4. Business has nothing to do with creativity
5. Creativity won’t help in my job
Thanks for stopping by! Now keep on rocking in the free world.
Jeph
Execution is one of the most overlooked elements of business. Strategy, finances, and market opportunities seem to get a lot more attention. In my own experience, getting an A+ on execution will beat out the other companies who have A+'s in the more traditional areas.
Michael Edson, Resource Sharing RemixedMichael Edson
Presentation for the 2009 Rethinking Resource Sharing IV forum at the Online Computer Library Consortium (OCLC) campus in Dublin, OH. Focuses on ways to catalyze change -- particularly in regard to digital strategy and asset sharing -- in large organizations. (The slideshow as a compilation is in the public domain, though individual assets may be under copyright as noted.)
As part of our book reading club in eBay, I did a talk about one of my favourites book "The Art of Thinking Clearly". Here are some snapshots from the book in my own words.
This ebook compiles awesome outtakes from SXSW2015. Written by @Briansolis and illustrated by @gapingvoid, it captures why you should be very sorry you failed to get to Austin this year:)
This is another in our series of ebooks that can make your ideas come alive.
James Altucher: 40 Alternatives To CollegeJamesAltucher
UPDATE: I'll tell you 10 More Reasons Why Parents Should Not Send Their Kids to College ---> http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/10-more-reasons-why-parents-should-not-send-their-kids-to-college/
WHY PEOPLE BULLSHIT AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT ITKevin Duncan
A quick analysis of this strange phenomenon, with some suggestions about how to cope with people who bullshit.
bulldictionary.com
Buy the book: http://amzn.to/2doeOTI
Critical thinking is the kind of thinking that specifically looks for problems and mistakes. Regular people don't do a lot of it. However, if you want to be a great tester, you need to be a great critical thinker. Critically thinking testers save projects from dangerous assumptions and ultimately from disasters. The good news is that critical thinking is not just innate intelligence or a talent—it's a learnable and improvable skill you can master. James Bach shares the specific techniques and heuristics of critical thinking and presents realistic testing puzzles that help you practice and increase your thinking skills. Critical thinking begins with just three questions—Huh? Really? and So?—that kick start your brain to analyze specifications, risks, causes, effects, project plans, and anything else that puzzles you. Join James for this interactive, hands-on session and practice your critical thinking skills. Study and analyze product behaviors and experience new ways to identify, isolate, and characterize bugs.
An analysis of why people bullshit and what you can do about it. A taster for The Dictionary of Business Bullshit and asking Kevin to speak on the subject.
How do you become a better writer? Is it something you’re born with or can you learn the skills that are needed. According to Paula Pant, you can get better. Here’s how.
Close your eyes, grasshopper. And imagine a time when music came in cardboard sleeves, your “virtual communication tool” was a phone box, and nobody minded if the soundtrack of a movie didn’t sync with the characters’ lips.
This was the time of martial arts legend Bruce Lee.
Emerging from a 5,000 year old culture, he had great respect for the traditions of his ancestors. But when it came to productivity he was a thoroughly modern man. He built his skills using what later decades would call “life hacking” - short-cuts and best practices to get the job done.
Bruce wasn’t just a master of the five-point palm exploding heart technique; he was also a master of project scoping and effective execution. So if you’re ready to study with the master, let’s enter the temple of productivity … and turn Jeet-Kune-Do into Jeet-Kune-DONE.
Unleashing the Creative Mind of the Test EngineerTechWell
Do we each have a natural capacity for creativity? Can creativity be learned or enhanced? How do we ignite inventiveness? To be competitive in today’s world, it’s important to creatively respond to unanticipated challenges, make new connections, and adapt and continually improve. The good news is that our brains are built for creative problem solving, and it’s easy to discover and enhance our natural inventiveness. Just as scientists adopt scientific methods to design experiments and unravel the mysteries of the world, we need a complementary set of tools and techniques―creative thinking―when we want to invent rather than discover. We each have creative genius waiting to be unlocked! Join Audrey Marak to explore a set of methods and environmental factors you can use to enhance your imagination and increase your ability to create innovative ideas. It’s time to make creative thinking a core part of our development and to reinforce these lessons throughout our lives.
Immerse, Imagine, Invent, Articulate: A framework for disruptive innovationPaulJervisHeath
What new product or service could you invent that would completely change your customers’ lives? How could you disrupt your entire sector?
This practical workshop takes you through an innovation process, helping you to identify the clichés that exist in your sector and giving you the tools and time to redefine them. The workshop provides techniques to disrupt those clichés, generate genuine customer insights, turn opportunities into ideas through proven ideation methods, create a coherent concept and then articulate that concept.
The workshop shows you how to realise a new product or service through a lean process of prototyping and iteration and we discuss case studies each step of the way.
Find out why focus groups are not design research. Find out why the average brainstorm gives ideation a bad name and find out how to make your own innovation processes have tangible business outcomes.
This workshop was ran at UX Cambridge in September 2013 and will be running again at the J. Boye conference in Århus, Denmark in November 2013.
This module explores the essentials of starting your own business. It looks at in detail the benefits and drawbacks of starting your own business, inspiring entrepreneurs that previously failed, facing your fears and examining in detail ‘digital natives’.
My coming talk on Sept 3, 2011. in Singapore.
Its free to attend, but register now!
http://blog.unleashyourbranding.com/
Free Talk organized by Entrepreneurship Club
11 a.m. at Ya Kun ( Orchard Central ), 3/9/11
Participants will be receive a free associate membership from the club which is worth $80/- for 1 year !
Customer Service, Compassion, and ComputersDon Crawley
Learn the five principles of IT customer service, plus emotional intelligence, how to deal with difficult customers, how to say "no" without alienating your customer, and stress management for IT professionals in this deck based on the one-day seminar "Customer Service, Compassion, and Computers: Making Them Work Together to Enhance Customer Relationships."
Lean Software Startup: Customer Development (lecture)Joni Salminen
Lecture at the University of Turku
Topic: Customer development - an introduction
20th January, 2016
Customer development is a form of market research for startups.
The communications industry is in a period of massive change. It is a time when more than ever, we need to be grounded in an understanding of people’s evolving behaviour and needs. But at this moment of opportunity the industry is waking up to the fact that instead of leading the way, a lot of qualitative research is based on faulty assumptions, has not kept up with cultural change or scientific learning about how the brain works, and may actually be hindering success. This is not the fault of researchers: most companies use market research poorly and don’t ask for innovation in research. But this situation runs the risk of damaging qualitative research’s value and credibility at a time when it is most needed; and researchers, clients, and agencies need to work together to win that credibility back.
Persuasion Equation The Subtle Science of Getting Your Way.docxkarlhennesey
Persuasion Equation: The Subtle Science of Getting Your Way
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Chapter 2: Decision Making—The Surprising Reasons People Say Yes and No
Picking his way through the cramped ballroom, with people-filled padded chairs all askew, there was no clear route. Obstacles,
however, were not this man’s primary concern. On his face, you could see his mind racing—searching for what he would say
once he was in front of the crowd. Few people like public speaking, but this situation seemed even more torturous than usual.
He found his standing spot, turned, and faced the crowd.
“I have traveled three hours round-trip every day to attend this session. I’ve driven dangerous roads and in heavy traffic. You
are a talented and knowledgeable group. I have learned from you, and you have learned from me. And I sure could use the
money to help pay for gas. Please, please. Pick me!”
That scene played out in a Calgary persuasion workshop during which I asked three volunteers to vie for a single, crisp $100
bill by convincing the audience to individually award them the money. The idea: Whoever makes the most compelling case,
winning the affections of the crowd, walks away with the cash and the bragging rights.
Participants are allowed to make their case in any way they deem appropriate, with one exception: They can’t share the money
or materially benefit the crowd in any way. (I’ll buy you all drinks!) Adding to the pressure, I give them just four minutes to
develop their case and only 25 seconds to present it.
What would you say if you were in this situation?
This activity mirrors business life today in many ways. You are often in competition with others for the account, the promotion,
the project. You must think on your feet and be able to put together compelling arguments fast, and you might not have much
time to state your case. Sometimes you need to do all this—especially in peer-to-peer persuasion situations—without offering
your target some sort of material gain. Not an easy assignment, to be sure.
The most interesting aspect of this workshop activity, though, is not the people vying for the money—it’s the people deciding
who will earn the money. You may think that people are carefully analyzing participants’ arguments, weighing the pros and the
cons to rationally decide who gets their votes. That’s not what’s happening. At all. The surprising truth is that most people have
no idea why they say yes.
UNEXPECTED TRUTHS ABOUT YOUR THINKING
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Digital Content in Public Libraries: What do Patrons Think? bisg
From the NISO/BISG ALA 10th annual summit which took place in Orlando in June of 2016, this presentation by Publishers Weekly's Andrew Albanese covers the results of a survey conducted by Nielsen of public library patrons' attitudes towards digital and print content in libraries.
What Your Metadata Does When You're Not Looking with Joshua Tallentbisg
Metadata expert Joshua Tallent will rip back the curtain and show you how different trading partners are using your metadata, with real life examples and suggestions for getting better results. He will also provide you with an overview of some industry best practices for the most important metadata elements, and discuss the pros and cons of common metadata workflows and management strategies. Learn what keywords to use in book metadata feeds, which fields to populate, which retailers and libraries are using which fields, and how to optimize your book's metadata for discoverability.
Student Attitudes Toward content in Higher Education: Nadine Vassallo, Projec...bisg
New insights based on over 1,600 student responses to the latest survey in BISG's ongoing study tracking the content and tools students say they actually use, points to the increasing role of technology in shaping the future of higher education
The Inclusive Access Model, presented by Jason Lorgan, Stores Director, Unive...bisg
Jason Lorgan's presentation, given at BISG's Higher Ed Conference 2015: Adapt, Learn, Innovate, outlines an innovative new business model pioneered at the campus store at The University of California Davis that addresses student reluctance to embrace digital course material. The program's remarkably promising results for content providers and distributors include improved sell through for stores and publishers and significantly reduced student costs.
Navigating the Transition from ONIX 2.1 to 3.0 bisg
Graham Bell, Executive Director of EDItEUR, focuses on the migration from ONIX 2.1 to ONIX 3.0, detailing the key differences between the two message standards, and the benefits and extra functionality offered by the new format. This presentation will outline the areas of the message where the changes are simple to deal with, and offer advice on those areas of the message where more significant modifications will be required.
ONIX: Migrating from 2.1 to 3.0, presented by Graham Bell, Executive Director...bisg
This presentation was originally give as part of a BISG webcast on October 14, 2014, and then again on November 12, 2014. The webcast focused on the migration from ONIX 2.1 to ONIX 3.0, detailing the key differences between the two message standards, and the benefits and extra functionality offered by the new format. EDItEUR's Graham Bell outlined the areas of the message where the changes are simple to deal with and offered advice on those areas of the message where more significant modifications will be required. This presentation is particularly timely because of the impending sunset of ONIX 2.1 support at the end of 2014.
Product Development for Common Core Standards, presented by Emma Williams, Co...bisg
The second of two presentations given during BISG's webcast "Product Development for Common Core Standards," co-hosted by Patricia Payton (Senior Manager of Publisher Relations and Content Development for Bowker), featuring Ashley Andersen Zantop (Group Publisher and General Manager at Capstone) and Emma Williams (Collection Development Manager at Booksource).
The implementation of Common Core State Standards is changing how teachers and librarians select classroom material, with significant consequences for publishers' product development and marketing programs. The series of three webcasts will help you understand educator needs, provide guidance for developing and marketing content that teachers and librarians will look for, and optimize its discoverability by showing you how to include details of a title's conformance with common core state standards in its metadata.
Emma Williams is the Collection Development Manager at Booksource. She helped develop Booksource's Common Core State Standards book collections and is well-versed in the Language Arts Reading Standards. In addition to her buying and collection duties, Emma edits Booksource's blog, "Booksource Banter," and is part of the social media strategy team. Emma has a B.A. in English from Truman State University and has worked in the book industry for the past eight years.
XBITS 101, a presentation for BISG by Diane Degener, IT Business Analyst & Pr...bisg
XBITS (XML Book Industry Transaction Standards) is a Working Group of IDEAlliance and a BISG committee that is designing and maintaining the standard XML (Extensible Markup Language) eDocuments to facilitate bi-directional electronic data exchanges between a diverse trading partners comprised of book publishers, manufacturers, paper mills, and component suppliers. The XBITS electronic transaction standard is based upon the papiNet Standard which is open, free and easy to adopt, providing common benefits to supply chain partners supporting both traditional and digital print manufacturing.
In this webcast, Diane Degener, Co-Chair of the XBITS Committee, will explain how to best implement the XBITS standard in your business and answer any questions you may have about XBITS best practices.
This 45-minute presentation will be followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.
Thema: The new, global subject classification system- Julie Morris- BISG/NISO...bisg
Presentation at the 8th Annual BISG/NISO Changing Standards Landscape Forum at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference on June 27, 2014 in Las Vegas, NV. Julie Morris (BISG) presenting on Thema: The new, global subject classification scheme for books. Event info (and other event slides) here: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/alaannual/2014nisobisgforum/
Best Practices for Keywords in Metadata, with Jenny Bullough, Manager of Digi...bisg
What are keywords, and how can they help you sell more books? As book purchasing and discovery increasingly moves online, judicious use of keywords can help make your book more visible to readers. Learn how to choose and use keywords for your book product metadata – join us for an online webinar where we’ll review the just-published BISG Best Practices for Keywords in Metadata. Join Jenny Bullough, Manager of Digital Assets at Harlequin Press and Chair of BISG's Keywords Working Group, and Julie Morris, BISG's Project Manager of Standards and Best Practices, as they explain why keywords should be used, how to choose the best keywords for your content, what to avoid when making that choice, and some best practices for structuring and updating keywords in ONIX, and more.
BISG Rights Summit June 11, 2014 (Michael Healy, Copyright Clearance Center)bisg
Presentation from Michael Healy, Copyright Clearance Center, at the BISG June 11, 2014 Rights Summit, looking at issues affecting the publishing industry in the management and transmission of rights and rights data.
Diversification, Discovery, and Data: 13 Insights from 13 Years of Safari, pr...bisg
Diversification, Discovery, and Data: 13 Insights from 13 Years of Safari, presented by Andrew Savikas, CEO of Safari Books Online, at Making Information Pay 2014, a track of IDPF's Digital Book 2014, at Book Expo America, on May 29, 2014
Subscription Services in the Context of Market Trends, presented by Jonathan ...bisg
Subscription Services in the Context of Market Trends, presented by Jonathan Stolper, SVP Nielsen Book Americas, at Making Information Pay 2014, a track of IDPF's Digital Book 2014 at Book Expo America, on May 29, 2014
Digital Books and the New Subscription Economy: Preliminary Results from the ...bisg
Digital Books and the New Subscription Economy: Preliminary Results from the BISG Research Study, presented by Ted Hill, President, THA Consulting at Making Information 2014, a track of IDPF's Digital Book 2014 at Book Expo America, May 29, 2014
The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI): A Close Look, with Laura D...bisg
The International Standard Name Identifier, or ISNI, was created to identify the millions of contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution, including researchers, inventors, writers, artists, visual creators, performers, producers, publishers, aggregators, and more in order to resolve the problem of name ambiguity in search and discovery. Now, Laura Dawson, Product Manager of Identifier Services at Bowker, will show us how ISNI has developed since the standard was first published in 2012. How is it managed? Who receives numbers? What impact has it had on publishing? And how can it be incorporated into current metadata management and distribution?
Metadata: Standards Basics for the Independent Publishing Community, with Gra...bisg
The better your metadata, the better your sales: that's the simple truth. Books with complete metadata sell almost three times better than a book with incomplete metadata, so there's a very good reason to learn about how to format and transmit this information to your industry partners. But where to begin?
In this session, Graham Bell, Chief Data Architect at EDItEUR, will offer practical guidance on writing, formatting, and transmitting metadata in accordance with industry standards and best practices, and help to make your metadata work for you.
This is the third in a three-part series, co-produced by IBPA and hosted by BISG, aimed at demystifying several of the core book industry standards through "101"-style sessions presented by experts in the field.
ISBNs and Identifiers: Standards Basics for the Independent Publishing Commun...bisg
What are identifiers? What purpose do they serve in the book industry?
According to BISG's Best Practices for Identifying Digital Products, an identifier is generally a sequence of alpha-numeric characters that unambiguosly differentiates one thing from another in a particular context.
But while that answer may seem straightforward enough, the fact is there's a lot more to identifiers than one might think.
The book industry employs numerous identifiers for different reasons in its day-to-day operations. This webcast will cover identifiers basics—what they are, how they are developed, and how and why they are used. Special focus will be given to the venerable ISBN and its use in today's digital marketplace, and the difference between the ISBN and proprietary product identifiers.
In this session, Phil Madans, Executive Director Digital Publishing Technology for Hachette Book Group, will discuss how to correctly use identifiers to ensure your books reach the hands of happy readers.
This is the second in a three-part series, co-produced by IBPA and hosted by BISG, aimed at demystifying several of the core book industry standards through "101"-style sessions presented by experts in the field.
Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education, with Nadine Vassallo, P...bisg
The way students learn and instructors teach is undergoing a radical shift, and the role of the traditional print "textbook" as the foundational tool for instruction is changing along with the traditional publishing model. To help shed light on these changes, BISG's Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education survey continues to provide a baseline for tracking the rapid evolution underway in the higher education market. Join Nadine Vassallo, BISG's Project Manager of Research and Information, as she shares data from the most recent volume of Student Attitudes, providing an up-to-the-moment analysis of the current behavioral trends that will inform the development of the higher education industry, and learn more about how Student Attitudes can offer your practical guidance for refining your business strategies in an ever-shifting marketplace.
RMD24 | Debunking the non-endemic revenue myth Marvin Vacquier Droop | First ...BBPMedia1
Marvin neemt je in deze presentatie mee in de voordelen van non-endemic advertising op retail media netwerken. Hij brengt ook de uitdagingen in beeld die de markt op dit moment heeft op het gebied van retail media voor niet-leveranciers.
Retail media wordt gezien als het nieuwe advertising-medium en ook mediabureaus richten massaal retail media-afdelingen op. Merken die niet in de betreffende winkel liggen staan ook nog niet in de rij om op de retail media netwerken te adverteren. Marvin belicht de uitdagingen die er zijn om echt aansluiting te vinden op die markt van non-endemic advertising.
LA HUG - Video Testimonials with Chynna Morgan - June 2024Lital Barkan
Have you ever heard that user-generated content or video testimonials can take your brand to the next level? We will explore how you can effectively use video testimonials to leverage and boost your sales, content strategy, and increase your CRM data.🤯
We will dig deeper into:
1. How to capture video testimonials that convert from your audience 🎥
2. How to leverage your testimonials to boost your sales 💲
3. How you can capture more CRM data to understand your audience better through video testimonials. 📊
Digital Transformation and IT Strategy Toolkit and TemplatesAurelien Domont, MBA
This Digital Transformation and IT Strategy Toolkit was created by ex-McKinsey, Deloitte and BCG Management Consultants, after more than 5,000 hours of work. It is considered the world's best & most comprehensive Digital Transformation and IT Strategy Toolkit. It includes all the Frameworks, Best Practices & Templates required to successfully undertake the Digital Transformation of your organization and define a robust IT Strategy.
Editable Toolkit to help you reuse our content: 700 Powerpoint slides | 35 Excel sheets | 84 minutes of Video training
This PowerPoint presentation is only a small preview of our Toolkits. For more details, visit www.domontconsulting.com
Affordable Stationery Printing Services in Jaipur | Navpack n PrintNavpack & Print
Looking for professional printing services in Jaipur? Navpack n Print offers high-quality and affordable stationery printing for all your business needs. Stand out with custom stationery designs and fast turnaround times. Contact us today for a quote!
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5of13 - Making Information Pay 2010 (Jabin White, Wolters Kluwer)
1. Practical Approaches
to Change and its
Impact on People
Jabin White
Director of Strategic
Content
Wolters Kluwer Health
May 6, 2010
2. Agenda
Introduction
What does all this change mean to me?
Lessons from Changeville (via a case study), and how
to know when you can‘t turn back
Closing Thoughts
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3. Introduction: Who Am I?
Director of Strategic Content for Wolters Kluwer
Health – Professional & Education
— Responsible for making sure content flows through company more
efficiently (DTDs, Content Management, Authoring Tools, Semantic
Enrichment, Product Information Management, etc.)
Wolters Kluwer Health includes:
— Lippincott Williams & Wilkins titles
— Ovid
— UpToDate
— Provation Order Sets
— Drug Facts & Comparisons
— Medi-Span
— Clin-eguide
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4. Baseline Assumption: The World of
Publishing is Changing, Get Over It
Understand that change = opportunity
Control change – ie, change for the better, not for the
sake of change
— A subtle difference, but a critical one. Realize that your business
fundamentals can remain the same in the time of great change.
Understand that an environment that tolerates failure
is critical to change and growth
So what does all this mean to me?
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5. Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine.
- Robert Gallagher
WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN TO
ME?
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6. Impact on Different Groups
Editorial/Product Management
— ―Getting close to customer‖ is no longer a nice-to-have but a necessity
Production
— Probably biggest impact, innovation while keeping the store running, and
―last link in the chain‖ problem gets worse
Sales & Marketing
— Opportunity for super value if close enough to customer; figuring out
how to sell less to more; business model flexibility
Executive Suite
— Patience in a time of impatience; stomach for infrastructure, promoting
an atmosphere that tolerates mistakes
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7. Why do we think failure is bad?
Because society tells us so?
Many companies create an environment wherein
failure is unacceptable
Studies show failure as a learning experience is
incredibly more effective than success
Sports psychology has something to say about this
Obviously we don‘t want to encourage failure, but
promote acceptance/recognition of it, and learning
from it
— ―I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.‖
— ―I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that
precedes what the world calls success. ―
Thomas Edison
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8. What The Experts Say
Peter Drucker: ―The 9-month memo‖
Jim Collins: ―Extreme personal humility with intense
professional will‖
— A different sort of leader: singles and doubles instead of home
runs
George Eliot: ―Life is like playing chess with each
piece having thoughts, feelings, and motives of their
own. It is complex beyond reckoning‖
Every move, every decision, is a partial failure, to be
corrected by the next one (even walking)
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9. ―The reasonable man conforms himself to the world. The
unreasonable man conforms the world to himself. Therefore, all
change depends upon the unreasonable man.‖
George Bernard Shaw
PRACTICAL LESSONS ON
CHANGE, VIA CASE STUDY
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10. Case Study – The Background
STM Publisher in the late 1990s
SGML was a known thing, decent penetration in
journals, and XML was being developed
Business case for providing journal files in SGML was
getting to be a ―slam dunk,‖ but *how* exactly that
was accomplished was still being figured out
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11. Case Study: Change Before Its Time?
Built a DTD** for journals
Built a DTD** Suite for books
— Both used by compositors for post-print conversion
Started building Editing Tools that were SGML aware
Upper Management was on board, and realized the
long-term savings of producing data once and using
multiple times
**DTD = Document Type Definition, the ―road map‖ of an SGML/XML document
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12. Case Study: Change Before Its Time?
Built a DTD** for journals
Built a DTD** Suite for books
— Both used by compositors for post-print conversion
Started building Editing Tools that were SGML aware
Upper Management was on board, and realized the
long-term savings of producing data once and using
multiple times
Or so I thought!
**DTD = Document Type Definition, the ―road map‖ of an SGML/XML document
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13. Case Study: What Went Wrong?
Upper Management changed, as it sometimes does
Middle Management not engaged properly (we learned
this later)
DTDs were too ―hard‖ to work with, the editing tools
added time to copyeditors‘ workflow
— Result: Tools abandoned, DTDs put in a drawer
DTDs continued to be used for journals, but a ―mixed
bag‖ for books
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14. Case Study: Post Mortem
Knowing the difference between real commitment
and ‗lip service‘ is a critical skill for change agents
Knowing *when* to change is as important as knowing
*how* to change
Must tie the *reasons* for change to the causes of pain
in people‘s minds – we were trying to solve a problem
that people didn‘t realize they had
My ―20-60-20 Rule,‖ learned the hard way
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15. Where to Focus?
The ―Early Adopter‖
• Sure, I get it. Tell me what to do! 20%
The ―No Way, Jose‖
• A no looking for a question to 20%
answer
The Middle
• I may be willing, but show me 60%
•A really unfortunate note: People aren‘t always what they seem, and they
don‘t always stay in their respective boxes
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16. Where to Focus?
The ―Early Adopter‖
• Sure, I get it. Tell me what to do! 20%
The ―No Way, Jose‖
• A no looking for a question to 20%
answer
The Middle
• I may be willing, but show me 60%
•A really unfortunate note: People aren‘t always what they seem, and they
don‘t always stay in their respective boxes
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17. Where to Focus?
The ―Early Adopter‖
• Sure, I get it. Tell me what to do! 20%
The ―No Way, Jose‖
• A no looking for a question to 20%
answer
The Middle
• I may be willing, but show me 60%
•A really unfortunate note: People aren‘t always what they seem, and they
don‘t always stay in their respective boxes
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18. Case Study: A Happy Ending?
I‘m back, baby!
The book DTDs were maintained, and they are now
being put to excellent use
The world has moved forward in its embrace of XML
(a rising tide lifts all angle brackets?), so the power of
these DTDs is ready to be unleashed
That doesn‘t make what we did in 1999 right; it
makes us lucky
— If you predict your baseball team is going to win the World
Series every year, it doesn‘t make you a genius the year that
they do (See White, Jabin. The 2004 Red Sox)
Everything new becomes old, then maybe new again
(if you wait long enough)
— This also explains my wardrobe
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19. How To Know There‘s No Turning Back
1. From an XML perspective: when you‘re scratching
your head thinking: ―Why am I paying to do
essentially the same thing twice?‖
2. From a cultural perspective: when you realize you
are asking people to do things you have no
confidence in their ability to do
3. From a systems/tools perspective: when you
cannot support said people with the systems
necessary to do what they need to do
4. From a product development perspective: when
your infrastructure is preventing you from doing the
things you want to do (I feel your pain!)
5. From a customer perspective: when they are
asking for things you can‘t provide (see No. 3
above), or when delivering these things cannot be
done in a cost-effective way
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21. Impact on People
Not everyone will adapt, but they should be given the
chance
Just because we have to be ―experts‖ at technology
doesn‘t mean we still don‘t need editorial expertise
— Publishing is still part art, part science
Technology is an ―enabler‖ of what we do, not a
replacement
The way some technology companies talk about
content and its importance, it‘s a good thing I‘m a
pacifist
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22. Closing Thoughts
There *is* no turning back
It is no longer acceptable or responsible to talk about
*when* your organization will change; the
conversation needs to be around *how*
The point of no return is behind us
People matter more than we might think, but they
have to be set up to succeed
Yes, digital publishing is hard, but no one ever said it
was easy!
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23. THANK YOU
Jabin White
Director of Strategic Content
Wolters Kluwer Health
Jabin.white@wolterskluwer.com
215.521.8911
Twitter: @jabinwhite
Blog: Technically Speaking at
http://www.bookbusinessmag.com/channel/technically-speaking
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