A new blog post by my business partner Langdon Morris about what Apple's next moves might be. It's fun to test our own thinking about business model innovation and see how that would apply to a company like Apple - that is so good at surprising us!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
Do iPads in School Change Behavior? | iPad in Schools
I was just reading an article about some studies being conducted at Wharton Business School to see if the iPad changes behavior in the learning environment. I imagine the study will find that it does – but we’ll wait until the research is reported.
Combine that research with a recently published study by Reed College that concludes the iPad can meet the demands of a higher ed curriculum, and it’s likely we will see more iPads showing up on college campuses in the near future.
Do iPads in Schools Change Behavior?
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Turning Point for News Media | iPad in Schools
Happy New Year!
I hope you have had a great holiday time and the new year has started off well.
Over the holidays I made a short video about what I believe is a fundamental turning point in the way media – and particularly news media will be consumed.
Wave One
Initially people accessed news either through one of five means – newspapers, magazines, radio, television or word of mouth. I would call this the analog means of accessing news. It’s analog and it’s also somewhat serial – meaning you access one ‘story’ at a time and there isn’t really a good way to get a big picture of all the stories and/or to pick and choose what you want to know about. The ‘news’ was pushed or fed to people by the publisher.
Wave Two
The first major transition for these news sources and for consumers accessing news stories took place with the introduction and proliferation of the internet. Instead of always getting news in the traditional five ways much of the same content was digitized and made available through a web browser. Most of this was free although some news outlets were able to charge for access to certain content in certain forms.
Wave Three
The next major transition – and what I believe is a major paradigm change – is taking place with introduction the iPhone, the iPad, and the subsequent introduction of apps that run on these devices. Most recently Apple introduced the App Store for Macintosh and Google introduced the App Store for Chrome – both of which now are redefining the way that applications are accessed, updated, and used.
Now, almost all of the traditional media houses are creating dedicated applications – apps – that can be run on either a computer screen, a tablet screen, or a phone screen. These apps are optimized for the specific content being made available in some combination of video, audio, and text formats.
There are also applications like FlipBoard being developed that translate ‘content’ from Facebook and Twitter and turn that content into a magazine format – allowing the user to ‘flip’ through the content and go deeper only on the stories that are interesting to them. Peter Yared of Venture Beat calls this the ‘ipadification of the web’ and something he feels is actually good for the internet and internet based content. I agree with him.
The point has come now where people will not surf the web for web pages and they won’t be changing channels on a TV or on a radio. They will be accessing ‘channels’ via specifically designed and build applications. Want to access specific content? There’s an app for that!
I believe the turning point for how people will interact with and consume news (specifically) is upon us. The introduction of the iPad and now the proliferation of apps on mobile devices, computers, and television screens will usher in a new paradigm of media and content consumption.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Innovation at the base of the pyramid
There are lucrative markets all over the world that companies are vying for, and innovation is playing a role in all of them. The middle class is growing rapidly in India and China now, and millions of people join the global economic engine in these countries each year. But many people who live at the base of the economic pyramid are also seeing more economic opportunities.
Innovation Consultants are finding ways to address the 'bottom of the pyramid' with new and very unique approaches. We've been participating in that innovation as well.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Technology Trends in Schools | iPad in Schools
I was reading an article about some technology trends that schools will need to be aware of – and likely pursue – in 2011 and thought I would write about them. I’ll go through the list from the article I read and make some comments. These trends should impact the use of iPads in Schools over the next 12 to 24 months.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tablet Wars Begin | iPad in Schools
As the iPad continues to have success in the many countries it is now available in, other computer manufacturers are starting to announce and deliver their offering into the tablet market (I’ve listed a few of them below). For school personnel – teachers, network administrators, and policy makers – the advent of new tablets could present a problem. Will other tablets take the place of iPads in School?
Saturday, November 20, 2010
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