Category: Business model generation
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Unbundling education and training for online
The online world lends itself to unbundling. Unbundling is when you dismantle various aspects of a previous business model and sell them separately. Sometimes different companies and organisations can then specialise in a specific aspect of the business or industry. An example would be in telecommunications. Previously, one monolithic company might have controlled all aspects…
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Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon all to build giant data centers near Taupo in New Zealand
Actually, it’s not true. Let me state categorically that Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon are not going to build massive data centers near Taupo in New Zealand. Or anywhere in the Southern hemisphere that I am aware of. And at least not any time soon. However, I got to thinking about this recently. What if…
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Grown Up Digital
How the net generation is changing your world Don Tapscott undertook some research back in the late 20th century (1997…) and wrote it up in a book called Growing Up Digital. It was a book about what it meant for the generation that his kids were in – to be growing up in a digital…
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Redesigning Literacy and Numeracy Professional Development with ALEC
It’s time to redesign how I do my training. My company, Adult Literacy Education & Consulting Limited, otherwise known as ALEC, has been doing some pretty successful work in the literacy and numeracy space for the last couple of years. It’s time, however, to rethink how we’re delivering this. The course that we deliver is…
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It’s time to change your business model if you work in education
If you work in education or do any kind of training then chances are you work with a business model from last century. What’s more, you probably work with a model of education that dates from the century before. Or the one before that… Seriously. Perhaps if you’re like us, disturbing thoughts like these have…