THE LABORERS-EMPLOYERS COOPERATION AND EDUCATION TRUST (LECET) MARCH 16, 2010 COLLEEN CARMEAN ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Building Digital: Toward Social Media in the Workplace
May 16, 2015
THE LABORERS-EMPLOYERS COOPERATION AND EDUCATION TRUST (LECET)
MARCH 16, 2010
COLLEEN CARMEANARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Building Digital:Toward Social Media in the
Workplace
Before we start
A bit about meA bit about you:
Where are you from?What do you do?How are you using social media?
CHANGE IS GOOD
Change is Good
SPARE CHANGE IS BETTER
Change is Good
UNDERSTANDING HISTORY
Before We Start , Part II
History Repeats Itself
AGRICULTURAL AGE
History Repeats Itself
INDUSTRIAL AGE
History Repeats Itself
INFORMATION AGE…
History Repeats Itself
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History Repeats Itself
History Repeats Itself
Agriculture Revolution: Steel Plow
1837 – John Deere develops and markets the world's first self-polishing cast steel plow.
Innovation
Consequence: Food production increases Food supply extends local geographical boundaries Communities prosper Literacy rises
History Repeats Itself
Agricultural change: Tractor
1907 – Henry Ford begins producing gas-powered tractors. Fifty horsepower engines could pull sixteen plows and harrows, and a grain drill, performing the three operations of plowing, harrowing, and planting at the same time and covering fifty acres or more in a day.
Disruptive Innovation
Death of the family farm and of farming as a way of life
Disruptive Innovation
1870: 80-90% of America employed in agriculture, mostly on small tracts of land
2010: 2-3% of American are now employed in agriculture.
Disruptive Innovation
Median income? $7.70 for farm workers planting, growing and harvesting crops,
$8.31 for farm workers tending to animals.
History Repeats Itself
Gas -> Coal-powered steam (railroads)Steam -> Electric and Hydro-Electric
(factories)Pastoral -> Mechanical (heavy equipment)Rise of the trades1900s:
US SteelGeneral ElectricBayer AG
Bessemer Converter – steel furnace (1870)Wikipedia Commons
Industrial Age
General stability of the economyIncreasing rise in literacyGeneral prosperityChicken in every pot and a car in every garage
(H. Hoover, 1928)There are no such things as limits to growth,
because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. (R Reagan 1982)
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
Disruptive Innovation
Information Age
Information Age
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World Wide Web
USENET groups and listservs (Google groups)
Google Search logic
Mobile devices
Streaming video
GPS open-satellites
Fast cable to the home
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Moore’s law in semiconductor circuits:
technology obsolence in three years
Law of Accelerating Returns
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
“DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN”
Disruptive Innovation
Information Age
Global economy
Mass production
Supply side economics
Unparalled competition
WalMartification of goods and services
Amazonification across the long tail
Global economic collapse
LET'S TAKE A LOOK
A timeline view
SHIFT TO ANOTHER NEW AGE
Disruptive Innovation
Digital Age
CollaborationContinuous Communication FlowConsensusUbiquitous accessMobile access
Just in time (JIT) everything
Digital Age in the Social Enterprise
SharePoint (SaaS)Chat/IM softwares (Yammer)Mobile communicationShared Docs and workflowGoogle Docs and Sites behind the Firewall Location aware devices (augmented reality)Visual data analysis
Very smart machines
The Promise of Social Media
What do
Google’s logic
Amazon
tell us about
the digital age?
History Repeats Itself
Change is… inevitableDisruptive Innovation creates unpredictable,
painful and rapid change and outcomesWe seem to be on the cusp of a new, painful
changeIt will take a collective effort to figure it outWe will use social and mobile technology to
do it
Thank You!!!
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