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See http://iwmw.org/iwmw2015/talks/beyond-digital-the-agile-university/
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US Department of Education Presentation and Proposal to develop new Voluntary “Values-Based” Ethical Online Education, Training and Compliance Tools for today’s Higher Education industry. Tools that take into account the ethical challenges and financial pressures that the explosive growth of online higher education will mean for learners and the providers: Non-Profit and For-Profit.
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Student recruitment, student experience, rankings and employability are all so important, but how can you do this and still support the local community and economy? Do you look to wealthy international students or recruit from your local talent pool? Do you diversify into new types of teaching?
The intelligent use of ‘big data’ and embracing modern marketing techniques can hold the key to identifying the right students for your university, and giving them more personalised support. Making use of this data/information can not only increase retention rates but can nurture talent, push up attainment and improve the student experience.
The Bridging Nations Foundation will host a one-day conference to address challenges faced by higher education systems on a global level. Discussions will focus on emerging solutions for bridging the gap between higher education curricula and emerging demand within the contemporary job market. Conference topics examine ways innovative changes in the higher education sector will combat disparity, lack of access, and unemployment and contribute to a greater shared global prosperity. The conference will also cover topics including policy and legislation, MOOCs, emerging career trends, innovations in higher learning and education, and the impact of technology over the course of four panel discussions and two keynote presentations.
Dr. Robert Hill, Ed.D., a professor in Nova Southeastern University's Ed.D. in Higher Education Leadership program, speaks on "Managing the Enrollment Funnel in these Challenging Times" as part of the first webinar presented by the New England Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals (NEGAP). Dr. Hill, an expert in student services, will discuss how admission strategy can be tailored to meet the needs of prospective students in the current economic environment.
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What are the most powerful marketing messages to reach this audience
What are the most popular online subject areas and degree programs
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Higher education: harness the power of cloudAngela Gardner
In order to retain and recruit
students, higher education
institutions must position themselves
as experts in the learning network
and find more cost-effective ways
to implement IT services. It is time
to take the financial and structural
pressure off of college IT staff by
steering away from the burdensome
cost of maintenance and upgrades,
long lead times for infrastructure
improvements and incompatibilities
between systems and tools.
Moving a system to the cloud can
reduce the cost of ownership by
20 percent. Federal agencies have
already reduced their operating costs
by 30 percent.5 Colleges can expect
to see similar results. The cloud also
allows institutions to pay for what
they use versus building capacities
that are largely unexploited.
Summary presentation looking at developments related to changes in institutions as a result of markets, demographics, technology, austerity in higher education.
We want to develop a cloud based e-learning platform that can be use from anywhere on earth. With Cloud Campus, educational institutions and organizations can train their students, employees, vendors or customers.
The Cloud Campus capstone project for the Wharton Business Foundation Specialization on Coursera.
Alcatel-Lucent Cloud Classroom in the Cloud White Paper + InfographicAlcatel-Lucent Cloud
Alcatel-Lucent Classroom in the Cloud strategic white paper explains how a classroom in the cloud building on service provider infrastructure and business models to create a k-20 Education platform that reduces cost, improves engagement and measures student success. Transformational change is required in the area of education to improve outcomes for students. Telecommunications service providers are in a unique position to help educational institutions harness the rapidly expanding base of mobile and connected devices to accelerate the use of digital content in the classroom. By provisioning reliable network infrastructure, supplying standardized devices to all students, and partnering with a flexible teaching and learning application, service providers can create high-value opportunities while delivering effective new digital resources that help educators reduce costs, improve teaching tools, access more meaningful performance analytics, recast student engagement, and remodel educational standards worldwide.
LearningMate’s GoClass is a subscription-based, teacher-centered, classroom workflow- management application. Teachers use GoClass to develop and store lesson-plans in the cloud. In the classroom, they project those lesson-plans at the front of the room and broad- cast them to students’ mobile devices. Students can save content in their own accounts, and can annotate that content and collaborate around it with classmates. They can also access or buy additional related content. GoClass links students notes and annotations to the related lesson plan element by design. Students can elect to share this work with their teacher and can also collaborate with other students working on the same material.
E-learning Market Size, Share, Growth and Forecast to 2030 | GQ ResearchGQ Research
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A College Education Has Become An Essential Part Of The American Dreamnoblex1
A college education has become an essential part of the American Dream for millions of families. Indeed, extensive polling and focus group research conducted by our coalition of higher education associations in the last year clearly demonstrates that the public overwhelmingly believes higher education is vitally important for personal success. Furthermore, they believe that all children should have the chance to attend postsecondary education and, despite the high price, that college is a "good value" for the money.
On the other hand, the public also is greatly concerned about the affordability of higher education, believes it is too expensive, and thinks that the price can be brought down without affecting academic quality. The public vastly overestimates the price of higher education at all types of colleges and dramatically underestimates the amount of financial aid that is available to help meet college bills. They don't know where student aid comes from or how to apply for it. Nor does the public understand why college prices increase. Most worrisome, perhaps, they think college leaders are indifferent to their concerns about the price of attending college. Our research also demonstrates that Americans worry about financing a college education. The lack of knowledge about paying for college is most acute among at-risk populations — first-generation college students, low-income families, and members of minority groups.
The great divergence between the value that the public places on having access to higher education and the lack of information they have about what it costs and how to afford it — what we call "the knowledge gap" — is deeply troubling. No one with a commitment to higher education can be satisfied with the news that the public is so poorly informed about issues of choice and access. It is surely a danger signal that the public believes college officials are indifferent to their fears about being able to afford a postsecondary education for their children.
THE NEED FOR A NATIONAL COALITION
What can be done? We believe that two related steps are absolutely essential. First, colleges and universities must redouble their efforts to explain college costs, the prices that students are charged, the amount and sources of financial aid that are available, and the options for financing a college education. We must reach out to a broad range of business, community, and religious organizations and solicit their support in improving public understanding.
Second, and no less important, colleges and universities must take strong steps to manage and contain costs, share innovative and successful cost management strategies, expand efforts to explain why costs increase on campuses, and talk candidly about the steps that have been taken to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Source: https://ebookschoice.com/a-college-education-has-become-an-essential-part-of-the-american-dream/
MARKETING SEGMENTATION AND PRODUCT DEFINITION 1.docxinfantsuk
MARKETING SEGMENTATION AND PRODUCT DEFINITION 1
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Marketing Segmentation and Product Definition
Shana Williams
Professor Joan Draper
Mercy College
Marketing 225 DLA
11/25/2012
Marketing Segmentation and Product Definition
The Industry
The new service that caters to education reform is The Col School of Secondary Education. This school offers a secondary education everywhere in the U.S. with strategic rock climbing. These courses last every nine weeks without interfering with other required credits. This would enhance the need for competition through meeting the preferences of the schools, parents, and students within the market of education. Along with strategic rock climbing courses, this school will also feature arithmetic, science, and humanities courses . The concept and implementation of The Col School of Secondary Education would intrigue the interest of students and instructors alike since it bases on effective and efficient assimilation of public schools. Education boards has never seen a service like this ever because it allows students who would like to gain cultural knowledge by traveling, decision making, problem solving, and fitness, hence, the opportunity to take classrooms by storm. It is crucial for the product to follow the quality standards of classrooms in order to appeal effectively and appropriately to parents and relevant institutions. The Col School of Secondary Education falls in the education industry in that it is a form of outdoor classrooms at enhancing the minds of instructors and students. This allows instructors to be more responsible for students and challenges them in the classroom by trusting the student as well as themselves. It is ideal for the organization to venture into this industry because of great demand for the change in education reform and effective communication and education system in order to minimize the lack of attentiveness and structure in the classroom. The industry is broken and has lackluster in that the modern society depends on technology for most of its activities. This indicates of the modern society and technology is crucial, but what has happened to making leaders as well as fit individuals in an morbidly obese society?
The Need that the Product or Service Addresses
Col school of rock climbing would aim at enhancing our students to be future leaders and members of society and across the globe. Students will gain characteristics such as planning, concentration, goal setting, sense of achievement, and spatial awareness. These prove to be ideal for today’s job market as well as post secondary education. The service offers something new to education due to the fact that there is so much fuss with education reform and teachers. This is as a result of the lack of creativity in the classroom, students becoming too overly dependent on teachers, and teachers not bein ...
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1. • Cognizant 20-20 Insights
Transformation Strategies for
Higher Education
As digital technology reshapes the fundamentals of the highereducation industry, the basic tenets of teaching and learning that have
endured for centuries are being turned on their heads — compelling
institutions in this sector to adopt a new playbook to remain relevant.
Executive Summary
Business Megatrends
Now more than ever, understanding the intricacies of technology transformation is critical to
staying relevant in the higher education environment. The technology landscape has changed
dramatically over the past 15 years, along with
the baseline expectations of the modern learner.
Understandably, higher-education institutions
are pressured to meet these new requirements —
from personalized and affordable learning, to
social media-based learning tools, mobile apps
and 24/7 availability of administrative services.
Changing customer demographics, behaviors and
expectations. Revenue pressure. Increasing sensitivities surrounding the return on investment
for dollars spent on higher education. All are
driving a fundamental transformation across the
education ecosystem (See Figure 1, next page).
The successful adoption and implementation of
these technologies and their underlying infrastructure can be a daunting and complex effort
encompassing a comprehensive evaluation of
strategies, human resources, processes and technologies.
This white paper explores the business and
technology drivers causing change within higher
education, describes the new playbook for transformational initiatives and reveals success factors
critical to a meaningful business transformation
effort.
cognizant 20-20 insights | november 2013
The Student as a Savvy Customer
Today’s higher-education customer relies on
university Web sites, student satisfaction ratings
(as reflected on social media sites) and university
ranking guides when making decisions on where
to study. Millenials who have grown up on
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are far less likely
to be excited about reading a 500-page textbook
or traveling miles to listen to a lecture than
previous generations.
Interacting with these students requires managing
more communication channels than ever before.
Decisions about when and how often to interact
with prospective students, what content to communicate and what media channels to leverage for
delivery are critical components of an effective
enrollment strategy.
2. The Education Ecosystem
Consumers
Digitizers
Administration
• Pre-K and K-12.
• Colleges and Universities.
• Professional, Voluntary
Alliances
Education Providers
Faculty and Staff
and Involuntary Institutes.
• Penn State, Harvard,
Education
Publishers
Content Creators
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• Textbook Publishers.
• Journals and
Content Aggregators
Course Content.
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Personalized, Affordable and
Outcome-Based Learning
Higher education customers now expect affordability as well as more services. Likewise, many
institutions are driven by tuition income —
and better student services cost more money.
Today’s university leaders seek an appropriate
balance between these opposing forces. The
reduction in entry barriers has resulted in new
players entering the market with affordable and
innovative learning solutions.
For example, massive open
Monolithic and online courses (MOOCs) address
linear pedagogical a growing customer segment
a cost-effective
models will soon be looking for with a degree or way
of learning,
cera thing of the past. tification not necessarily being
the end objective. Outcomebased and adaptive learning processes bring
personalized learning experiences attuned to
the distinct learning capabilities of individuals.
This often results in improved learning outcomes.
Monolithic and linear pedagogical models will
soon be a thing of the past.
Increased Public Scrutiny
External higher-education constituents (tax
payers, students and their families, government
regulators and industry analysts, etc.) are
increasingly monitoring tuition levels, academic
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outcomes and process efficiency within the higher-education industry. Since individuals seeking
higher education often require tax payer-funded
grant aid such as Pell, and loan/self-help like Ford
Direct Loans, the general public is more interested
in the economic impact of higher education on
students. As a result, all levels of government
are making adjustments to age-old reporting
requirements — and creating new challenges for
university leadership.
Tuition and fees at public universities have surged
almost 130% over the last 20 years — while middle
class incomes have stagnated.1 With the costs
of higher education increasing faster than the
median income levels of most families in the U.S.,
there is growing concern among students about
carrying hefty loans when starting their careers —
particularly amid a shaky global economy. Hence,
customers are expected to look for avenues that
offer a greater return on investment for their
higher-education needs.
External Funding Levels
Over the last three decades, the amount of
state funding for higher education has steadily
decreased. This has resulted in institutions
seeking new funding sources such as research
and philanthropy. However, the area of highest
growth has been tuition. More than 40 U.S. states
2
3. reported a budget deficit for the 2012 fiscal
year2 (CNN 2013). As states look to balance their
budgets, education funding levels will be carefully
scrutinized.
Universities will likely continue to be challenged
by the uncertainty around funding sources, with
the burden of higher education increasingly
falling on the shoulders of students and their
families.
Outsourcing Contextual Services
As budgets tighten, universities are re-evaluating what student services can be provided costeffectively. In past years, higher education has
outsourced bookstores, dining services and plant
operations to optimize costs. More recently, institutions have outsourced e-mail services to Google
and Microsoft. Other services ripe for outsourcing
include:
• Curriculum development: New programs that
meet market demand need to be developed
quickly. Full-time faculty generally have several
responsibilities, and are not always able to
contribute sufficient time to curriculum development or help implement a new program in a
timely manner.
• IT support desk: Today, students want to learn
anytime/anywhere — placing an additional
burden on IT support teams.
• Institutional research: In addition to the fact
that campuses have many more reporting
requirements, gathering information from a
multitude of databases is a challenging task.
• Business
intelligence (decision support):
A single version of the truth is essential for
effective decision making. Implementing a data
warehouse makes this possible, and is critical
for supporting the strategic planning process.
• Project
management: In addition to the
everyday support that is provided by the IT
team, other projects such as database, Web
site and server upgrades need to be taken
care of. External project managers have
access to the right people with the appropriate
domain knowledge to efficiently execute these
functions.
Achieving Academic Excellence in
an Adverse Economy
Changing expectations from millennial customers, competition from niche players, funding pressures and increased scrutiny from various stake-
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holders notwithstanding, institutions of higher
education are still expected to be centers of excellence — attracting the best brains from student
and teacher communities, fostering research and
innovation, and opening the doors for successful careers. Degrees from ultra-elite institutions
(MIT, Harvard, etc.) are expected to continue to
be in high demand, given their high recall values
and exceptional lifelong networking reach. This
may not be the case with institutions just below
that level.
As online and distance learning programs
become more popular, they will need to operate
in an environment of diminished budgets and
cost pressures. Technology budgets are likely to
remain flat, and institutions will look for ways to
be effective and grow in the midst of tight cost
constraints.
Technology Megatrends
The business changes described in the previous
section have propelled technology innovation
and disruptions. In addition, like almost every
other industry, the SMAC StackTM (comprising
social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies)
is disrupting the way higher education players
engage their customers and partners and run
their businesses.
The Impact of Mobile Apps
Smartphone adoption has reached nearly 45%
for American adults and 66% for those in the
18 to 29 age bracket. Learners are increasingly choosing to consume media through
these devices.3 IOS and Android smartphone
adoption rates have surpassed that of any
customer technology in history, including social
networking.4 With the increasing availability of
network infrastructures and the growing number
of smartphone and tablet users, the mobile app
market is becoming an important part of higher
education.
Mobile apps are being used by higher education
institutions to allow students greater access to
administrative functions such as registration,
financial aid and student billing. Mobile apps are
also being used for teaching and learning. The
Apple Store, for example, has over 20,000 education-focused applications. While not all of these
are targeted at the higher education audience,
the number of applications will continue to grow,
and the available features for augmenting the
learning process will improve.5
3
4. Digital Delivery
The college textbook market is making the
transition to digital delivery. According to the
Book Industry Study Group (BISG), students still
show a preference for the printed text, but that
number is trending downward. The group’s 2012
study revealed that 60% of students prefer the
printed text, down from 72% in 2011. Tablet use
for reading digital textbooks increased from 26%
in 2011 to 37% in 2012.6
Students are increasingly motivated to use
digital textbooks because of their convenience
(carrying a “reader” rather than multiple physical
textbooks), interactivity (highlighting of relevant
content and “linked” definitions for words in the
text), and the potential cost savings.
Social Media and Customer
Relationship Management
Engaging the modern student requires managing
several communication channels, with social
media being an increasingly important one.
According to a recent Nielsen Media report,
social networks and blogs now account for nearly
25% of total time spent on the Internet. Recruitment efforts within higher education use social
media extensively to connect with and research
potential prospects.7
The modern learner, whether a millenial or an
adult, has high expectations in terms of service.
Many learners manage difficult schedules that
require that they be able to accomplish their
learning anytime and anywhere. Some campuses
refer to CRM more generically as the “student
portal” or “global home,” since it serves as a
single online location for the student to connect
with various learning tools and administrative
functions.
CRM can be purchased as a single application.
However, it is often integrated with the student
information system (SIS). Access to the appropriate resources is enabled by assigning the student
login the appropriate “role.” When the student
enters her login and password (authentication),
the associated roles for the student determine
what resources are available through a Web
portal (authorization).
Business Intelligence
Understanding the marketplace and assessing
the learning process have never been more
critical for higher education institutions. Competition to recruit the right student has increased,
the recruited student expects better services, and
the larger community (e.g., taxpayers) expects to
see appropriate educational outcomes.
New Technologies Changing the Learning Environment
odels
Delivery M
• Blended
• Traditional
• Flipped
• Online
e Ideas
Innovativ
• MOOCs
• School as a Service
• Adaptive Learning
• eTextbooks
• Social
• Mobility
• Tablets
• Smartphones
• Analytics
• Cloud Solutions
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5. Popular higher education terms that can be
associated with BI are “assessment” and “learning
analytics.” These terms are generally related to
the concept of measuring student learning or
learning outcomes. With the advent of big data,8
more information is available for analysis than
ever before — from learning patterns and student
preferences, to public opinion and feedback.
Regional accreditation agencies, faculty and
university presidents are very interested in
gleaning insights and making more informed
decisions from this information.
emerging economies with massive knowledgehungry populations like China, India and Brazil
are a vast new market, youth in the developed
world are also looking to develop skills that will
help them compete in the global economy. The
growing revenue potential of this new market
could very well end up compensating for (or
even surpassing) that of the traditional “oncampus” customer base.
• Enable teacher and student success: Leading
colleges and universities can identify key areas
of learning, use their best professors to create
online lectures and use them as part of online
learning programs, hence taking the expertise
of their best teaching
minds to a vastly greater The old mindset of
audience. The old mindset
learning scarcity —
of learning scarcity —
limiting the audience limiting the audience
for their best professors for their best
and classrooms — must
professors and
give way to a more open
approach of taking the classrooms — must
best teachers to students give way to a more
across the globe, using
open approach of
technology as a tool.
As a result of the aforementioned business and
technology megatrends, the components of
the higher education business model — tuition
and net revenue models, marketing, enrollment
strategy and content distribution — will evolve
drastically. Not only are core business processes
being altered by technological advances, but the
ways in which individuals use technology to learn
are shifting as well. Effective sharing, collaboration, virtualization and innovation are emerging
as essential ingredients of the physical or virtual
classroom (see Figure 2, previous page).
The Playbook for Transformation
Based on our deep understanding of the higher
education marketplace and our work with several
industry-leading organizations, we believe that
the following elements should form the crux
of any transformational strategy for higher
education institutions.
• Build scale on the cloud:
Building scale has been
a traditional challenge
for institutions of higher
learning, be it creating
the physical infrastructure for accommodating more students, or the
technical infrastructure for managing learning
platforms and administrative activities. By
hosting learning programs and solutions on
the cloud, the problem of building scale can be
managed and resolved effectively. Cloud-based
national or global content delivery platforms
can offer economies of scale, reduce operational overheads and offload work that adds little
or no value. In this way, the organization can
focus on its core objective of providing better
learning outcomes to students.
• Rethink your positioning: Today’s customers
expect continuous engagement, with the
most up-to-date information in their areas of
learning across a variety of digital platforms.
As customer expectations and technology
paradigms change, organizations operating in
the higher education industry need to evaluate
if they should think of themselves as media
and information services players as well. Many
of the business and technology imperatives
for media and information services organizations, such as data as a service (DaaS),
freemium payments,10 smart content,11 big data
and analytics, and rich media12 are increasingly
applicable to the higher education segment.
• Convert
learning data into insights and
foresights: Online learning platforms provide
an unprecedented opportunity to capture
information about the learning preferences
and patterns, areas of expertise and core skill
sets of students. This rich information can be
used to fine-tune and customize the learning
process for each student, either through
automated learning algorithms or teacher
intervention. This information can also be used
• Make
the world your campus: Aided by
technology, institutions of higher education
now have the opportunity to take their
courses to an exponentially greater number
of customers across the globe, who they
would never be able to reach otherwise. While
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taking the best
teachers to students
across the globe, using
technology as a tool.
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6. to cross-sell more products and services. On
the other end of the spectrum, insights into the
unique skills of their customers could prove to
be invaluable to potential recruiters. Analytics
can open a host of hitherto unknown possibilities of monetization.
• Explore affiliated services: In order to main-
tain a persistent connection with customers
beyond their core learning outcomes, higher
education players should explore the associated services they can offer. Options such as
curriculum design, placement and career services, corporate training services, enrollment
and admissions services can be explored.
• Leverage cost benefits in operations: While
colleges and universities might regard the
reduction in enrollment of their full-time
on-campus courses as a hit on their revenue,
the resulting reduction in infrastructure
costs like real estate, power, staff salaries
and physical security can ease the pain of
decreased government funding to some
extent. Universities and colleges should look
to run a tighter ship by shaving administrative costs, eliminating high-cost, low-demand
programs, reconsidering course durations and
credit requirements, and reducing energy consumption, for example. Online courses do not
have the same overhead costs as classroom
programs. Partnering with online education
service providers and MOOCs can help further
lower the cost of online course development.13
• Train teachers and plan for change: The use
of technology can be overwhelming for many
teachers, including the best and most loved
by students. Institutions, as well as others in
the educational ecosystem, must carefully
develop the benefits they want to target and
tailor appropriate roles for technology. With
a plethora of technology options available to
teachers, selecting the right tools can be the
difference between a successful — or unsuccessful — online program. In today’s digital
ecosystem, the packaging and mode of delivery
of content is as critical to success as the content
itself. Institutions of higher learning should
carefully evaluate the technology enablers that
are best suited for their subject area, student
preferences and teacher competencies. Simply
“throwing” technology at this challenge can
actually create worse outcomes for students,
teachers, institutions — and budgets.
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A Business Transformation Framework
To formulate the right strategy for a transformative effort within a rapidly changing environment, it is crucial that a robust and welldefined framework is in place. Such a framework
must evaluate an organization across internal
and external variables, along a holistic set of
parameters. Our Cognizant Value Discovery
Assessment (CVDA)14 is a proprietary tool and
framework that informs, transforms and communicates an organization’s strategy. The
CVDA’s value is in its ability to deliver a relative
diagnosis of the current and planned strategies,
and prioritize the areas of change and focus that
the organization should pursue. CVDA evaluates
the current and future enterprise transformation
strategies against the top four levers that deliver
value in higher education:
• Efficiency: Optimizing the cost structure of the
institution, streamlining processes, reducing
waste and understanding what programs
produce the most value.
• Effectiveness:
Improving productivity and
operational performance in areas such as
quality control, student satisfaction and quicker
response to market changes (program development to meet student needs and interests).
• Virtualization:
Sharing learning processes,
knowledge and technology both within and
outside the institution in a collaborative and
flexible manner.
• Innovation:
Fostering the capacity to create
new programs and student services that will
result in new revenue streams.
In the information, media and entertainment
space, we have used the CVDA framework
(see Figure 3, next page) to define long-term
business transformation strategies for a global
publisher of higher education content and a
leading U.S. performing rights organization. We
charted variables such as the strength of the
organization’s core business, customer focus,
revenue diversification, digital strategy, data and
analytics, technology footprint, management of
costs, strategic partnerships and globalization
initiatives across the four CVDA dimensions.
A mapping of the CVDA “diamond” for the client
organization against CVDA diamonds of competitors and industry (created through in-depth
primary and secondary research) reflected the
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7. areas of focus that should define their business
strategies, and the consequent future state
of their systems and processes. Based on our
experience, we believe that this framework can be
used as effective tool for defining the transformation roadmap for players in the higher education
sector.
an institution may have to migrate course
curriculum for online delivery.
• Accelerate time to market: Many institutions
are steeped in history, and have traditionally been slow to adapt to changing market
dynamics. In today’s environment, business
model lifecycles can be short. To contend with
change, these organizations must find ways to
quickly embrace newer business and operating
models, and offer new services with greater
revenue potential. Delays in initiating or implementing new initiatives can cause an organization to miss the next big wave.
Critical Success Factors
The success or failure of any business transformation effort largely depends on a few key variables.
We believe that players in the higher education
market need to keep the following factors in mind
during their transformation journey.
• Agility and Flexibility: With the technology
landscape changing at the speed of thought,
organizations must be flexible in their
approaches to meeting customer needs.
To support business transformation, an
organization may need to nurture a set of
capabilities it does not currently possess.
For example, a higher education institution
may need to transfer student experiences,
learning workflows and engagement to mobile
platforms. In order to provide the flexible
schedules that the modern learner needs,
• Improve customer connections: If an organi-
zation does not know what its customers are
thinking on a real-time basis, it will gradually
lose the ability to invest and monetize relevant
content and opportunities. Tools that mine conversations on popular social media platforms
and analyze user sentiment can be used to feel
the pulse of the customer. This is especially
relevant in higher education, since the overwhelming majority of customers come from
the age group that is most active on social
media.
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• Improved capital productivity/utilization.
• Developing offerings through strategic
Virtualization
partnerships and joint ventures.
• Cloud offerings.
Effectiveness
Innovation
• Productivity/quality
• Innovation.
• Revenue enhancements.
• New business models
improvement.
• Enhancement/expansion
of existing capabilities and
business models.
and capabilities.
Efficiency
• Cost reduction and control.
• Lowering effort while
improving output.
Figure 3
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As technology shifts force
higher education players to enter uncharted
waters, the importance of key partnerships in
areas such such as IT infrastructure, MOOCs,
learning management systems, semantic
search and content enrichment is increasing.
Partners can feed off one another’s expertise
and take more compelling learning solutions
and services to customers.
Looking Ahead
Higher education institutions will continue to
face major challenges from new competitors,
changing customer behavior and an unfavorable
regulatory environment. A prospective learner’s
ecosystem will also continue to change, as will
their expectations for appropriate and effective
learning services. The variable that can and
should be managed is how quickly your institution
can adapt to meet the market’s needs.
Footnotes
1
Surging college costs price out middle class. http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/13/news/economy/college_
tuition_middle_class/index.htm.
2
CNN. State Budget Deficits. April 11, 2013. http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2011/02/politics/table.state.
budgets/ (accessed April 11, 2013.
3
Rainie, Lee. “Smartphone Ownership Update: September 2012.” Pew Internet & American Life Project.
September 11, 2012. http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Smartphone-Update-Sept-2012/Findings.aspx
(accessed March 26, 2013).
4
Farago, Peter. “The Flurry Blog.” August 27, 2012. http://blog.flurry.com/bid/88867/iOS-and-AndroidAdoption-Explodes-Internationally (accessed March 27, 2013).
5
Lytle, Ryan. “5 Apps College Students Should Use This School Year.” September 21, 2012.
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/09/21/5-apps-college-students-shoulduse-this-school-year (accessed March 26, 2013).
6
Book Industry Standard Group (BISG) press release. January 25, 2013.
http://www.bisg.org/news-5-815-press-releasestudent-response-to-digital-textbooks-climbs-says-newbisg-study.php (accessed March 26, 2013).
7
Nora Ganim Barnes and Ava M. Lescault. Social Media Adoption Soars as Higher-Ed Experiments and
Reevaluates Its Use of New Communications Tools. 2010. http://www.umassd.edu/cmr/studiesandresearch/socialmediaadoptionsoars/ (accessed March 26, 2013).
8
Big Data is the term for a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process
using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data.
9
Data as a Service is based on the concept that the product, data in this case, can be provided on demand
to the user regardless of geographic or organizational separation of provider and consumer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_as_a_service.
10
Freemium is a business model by which a proprietary product or service is provided free of charge, but
money (premium) is charged for advanced features, functionality, or virtual goods. http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Freemium.
11
Smart Content is information, typically originating in unstructured formats, that is findable, reusable,
more profitable (however measured) for the producer, and more useful for the consumer. Six Definitions
of Smart Content http://www.informationweek.com/software/business-intelligence/six-definitions-ofsmart-content/228901459.
12
Rich media refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the
user’s actions by presenting content such as text, graphics, animation, video, audio, games, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_media.
13
How Online Education Saves Everyone Money. http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-economy/solutionsbank/how-online-education-saves-everyone-money-20130425.
14
A New Value Creation Model. http://www.cognizant.com/InsightsWhitepapers/A-New-Value-CreationModel.pdf.
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