how the digital revolution is cloud powered
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How the digital revolution is cloud powered -- examples of digital strategy for communication and engagement, and examples of campus innovationTRANSCRIPT
The Digital Revolution : how the cloud
enables innovation, (and everybody wins)
Perry [email protected]
@perryhewitt
We paid for, named, and nurtured our pets.
h/t Bill Baker
But now we’re maintaining our web infrastructure more like a herd of cattle.
Photo credit: AmberSky235
Source: http://xkcd.com/908/
Beware techno-utopia: not all problems are solved
enterprise enablement
Using the cloud to advance … speed to launch initiatives like mobile campus
Using the cloud to advance … measurement capabilities (including real-time web, media)
Using the cloud to advance … services to improve social integration
campus innovation
https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx
The LibraryCloud API makes available catalog information about 12.3M items in the Harvard Library.
The aim is to make everything libraries know available to everyone on the web, and to enable and encourage the collaborative development of these apps and many more.
http://www.librarycloud.org/api
350 teams in the i-Lab Venture Incubation Program since January 2012 – with student founders representing every Harvard school.
Developers are creating more complex and distributed applications with terabytes of data and multiple independent services. Isn't it time their development environments caught up?
www.bowery.io
2 parting thoughts
student empowerment
1. Make sure your culture’s caught up to speed of tech. Innovate, iterate, rinse, repeat. It’s about change management.
2. Get ready for what cloud will do to as well as for your business. Who are your new competitors?
thank youPerry Hewitt
[email protected]@perryhewitt