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- 1. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com Ray Saltini Director, FFW Center of Excellence KEYNOTE Bridging Higher Education and Industry
- 2. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com JeanLukeAmy I’m going to tell you a story about three friends …and their journey toward radical digital transformation. This is a story about building bridges to radical digital transformation.
- 4. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com Pittsburgh knows bridges. Industries medicine higher education tourism banking corporate headquarters high tech many national non profits steel Higher Education Beaver Community College Bethany College Bidwell Training Center Butler Community College Byzantine Catholic Seminary California University of Pennsylvania Carlow University Carnegie Mellon University Chatham University Community College of Allegheny County Duquesne University Eastern Gateway Community College Franciscan University Geneva College Indiana University of Pennsylvania IUP (Northpointe) LaRoche College LECOM at Seton Hill Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Point Park University PSU Allegheny PSU Beaver PSU Fayette PSU New Kensington Reformed Presbyterian Seminary Robert Morris University Seton Hill University Slippery Rock University St. Vincent College Trinity School for Ministry University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing Washington & Jefferson College Waynesburg University (Southpointe) West Penn Hospital School of Nursing Westminster College Westmoreland Community College
- 5. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com • A bridge is a system of conveyance over an obstacle that gets people, things, or ideas from one point to another more quickly. • Sometimes a bridge is not a bridge. When a bridge goes under an obstacle it’s called a tunnel. Sometimes a bridge is just a vehicle or metaphor. • Sometimes, you don’t want to go there. • When that happens, you need a new bridge. What is a Bridge?
- 6. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com • Terrain • Distance • Time • Age • Goals • Culture • Resources • Territory • Ownership • Education • Gender • Experience • Governance • Conflict • Perception • What else… What obstacles?
- 7. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com To share or exchange • goods & services • information & experience • ideas & practices • people o teachers & students o executives & staff • opportunities • what else? Why?
- 8. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone. “But which is the stone that supports the bridge?” Kublai Khan asks. “The bridge is not supported by one stone or another,” Marco answers, “but by the line of the arch that they form.” Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: “Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.” Polo answers: “Without stones there is no arch.” – Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities The Parable of the Bridge
- 9. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com There are all kinds of stones.
- 11. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com Pittsburgh’s Next New Bridge? Made with a lot of different stones. Lots of really great arches. RC1 this month. Yes. Really.
- 12. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com What are the stones this new bridge is made from?
- 13. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com Do you know where you want to go? but wait…wha wha wha
- 17. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com How do we get people to cross the bridge with you? but wait…wha wha wha
- 18. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com • Terrain • Distance • Time • Age • Goals • Culture • Resources • Territory • Ownership • Education • Gender • Experience • Governance • Conflict • Perception • What else…
- 20. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com Plato’s Allegory of the Cave co-workers -> ^ status - quo bosses (prisoners too) ^ proprietary software fire jean-> luke-> < - amy
- 23. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com BUT HOW? • stop talking about Drupal to other people, talk about it only amongst yourselves • start talking about solutions, start asking questions about solutions, ask really good questions that can only be answered thoughtfully • volunteer, work for free, be a target • keep asking, be Socratic
- 24. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com Remember • the problem is not technology • the problem is not people • the problem is systems • the solution is people • the solution is the solution
- 26. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com Almost true story endings. • Jean met a guy who built a transformative open source LMS perfect not only for higher- ed but for every kind of industry currently found in Pittsburgh. Completely true, except for the part about Jean.
- 27. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com Almost true story endings. • Luke locked all his stakeholders in a room with a really good consultant until they all agreed to go to Drupalcon together. Maybe not actually locked. Ross Nunamaker, Olympus of America
- 28. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com Almost true story endings. • Amy met a Roman centurion and together they created an adoption plan for their entire school. Okay, half true. Catherine Cuff, Director of IT, Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University
- 29. @raysaltini @ffwdev www.tiny.cc/rayman www.ffwagency.com Parting thoughts, Live long and Drupal • the force is with you, be the stone, be the arch • ignore the prime directive, be disruptive, make it so • time can be rewritten, damn the paradoxes, run, run as fast as you can toward digital transformation before you become extinct like Kodak • go over, go under, build new systems • focus on the solutions • free the prisoners, get there together • Keep calm, don’t talk about Drupal. • Make people think. Stop telling them the answers. Ask them for critical solutions.
Editor's Notes
- A little bit about me, a little bit about FFW and the COE. Free classes, professional services, etc.
- Our story is not about just three people. It's a story about many different individuals who have begun similar journeys. Jean works for the web development services office of a major university. Luke is responsible for marketing at a life sciences corporation. And Amy is in charge of IT for a small prestigious private college. They're all friends and they are all passionate about three things. Work. Cos play. CLICK And Drupal. When it comes to work and cos play they disagree constantly. When it comes to Drupal they agree almost all the time. As it happens each of them had a history of abusive relationships with proprietary software vendors. They each had been held prisoner by high licensing fees, product sunsets and data lockout. Escaping their bonds, they had become open source technology evangelists. This story is not so much about what they did after they were free, as it is about how they got free and how to help others become free. Even today, many of their coworkers have not broken free of their chains and still only perceive the world through a veil of shadows. -------- But first. Let’s take a look around and make sure we understand the task at hand. We’re here to have a great Drupal Camp PA. And we’re here to talk about Bridging Higher Ed and Industry.
- Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3, Lycoming County Pennsylvania. built around 1840 demolished in 1996 after severe flood damage. We’re going to start here to check our assumptions about bridge building.
- Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3, Lycoming County Pennsylvania. built around 1840 demolished in 1996 after severe flood damage. This “parable of the bridge” illustrates the fundamental relationship between a whole and its parts. Without each other they are abstractions and simply stones in a riverbed. This “parable of the bridge” in Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities could be read as an illustration of the fundamental relation that ties together the element with the whole into something useful or meaningful. Without the elements, the whole is an abstraction and, without the whole as a structuring principle, the elements are simply separated, disorganized entities.
- There are keystones, silly stones, serious stones, stones that can change the world, and rolling stones.
- There are all kinds of bridges too.
- The thing about Drupal though is you have to actually create every span yourself. Drupal as a bridge building platform.
- It’s people. It’s you guys. It’s users and developers everywhere. This is great right?
- If you want to bridge the gap between higher education and industry there is only one answer.
- That’s where industry is going. The risk if you’re not is to go extinct.
- BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT DEFINES OUR AGE.
- Kodak simply did not move fast enough because they were protecting their old systems. They protected bridges that led them no where.
- So now you’ve built a bridge….but wait…
- Remember those obstacles? Resistance to change. The power of the status quo. The profit of the Status quo. These are not just obstacles to building the bridge. They are obstacles to getting people to cross the bridge.
- YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE RADICAL TRANSFORMATION UNTIL YOU BREAK DOWN OLD SYSTEMS. Now let’s use a really old idea to illustrate this points.
- Inside the Cave The prisoners have been there all their lives. They cannot see anything of themselves, or of one another, but the shadows formed <515b> by the fire. Of all the things being carried along the wall they see the same, only shadows, which they probably would give names. And if the opposite part of the cave had an echo they would also imagine that they heard the shadows speak <515c>.” So the prisoners will entirely judge that there is nothing true but the shadows of utensils. Release from the Cave Socrates then supposes that a prisoner is freed and permitted to stand up. If someone were to show him the things that had cast the shadows, he would not recognize them; he would believe the shadows on the wall to be more real than what he sees. “Suppose further," Socrates says, "that the man was compelled to look at the fire. He would be struck blind and try to turn his gaze back toward the shadows, the things he can see clearly and holds to be real. And if someone forcibly dragged him upward, out of the cave and all the way out into the sunlight, he would be distressed and unable to see "even one of the things now said to be true" <516a>. After some time on the surface, however, the freed prisoner would acclimatize. He would first see the shadows of the things around him and the images of plants and animals in the water, before he could recognize the things themselves in the sunlight. And eventually he is able to look upon the source of light, the Sun itself. And he would understand that the Sun is the “source of the seasons and the years, and is the steward of all things in the visible place, and is in a certain way the cause of all those things he and his companions had been seeing" <516bc>. Return to the Cave Socrates next asks Glaucon to consider the condition of this man. “He would probably remember his first home, what passed for wisdom there, and his fellow prisoners, and consider himself happy and them pitiable. And he would disdain whatever honors, praises, and prizes were awarded there to the ones who guessed best which shadows followed which. Moreover, were he to return there, he would be rather bad at their game, no longer being accustomed to the darkness. It would then be said of him that he went up and came back with his eyes corrupted, and that it’s not even worth trying to go up. And the prisoners in the cave would hold the opinion that whoever should attempt to liberate them, and lead them up, should be put to death” <517a>. WHAT MAKE JEAN, LUKE AND AMY DIFFERENT? THEY ALL STARTED THINKING, MAYBE FOR DIFFERENT REASONS, BUT THEY ALL STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS OF THEMSELVES. LIKE WHY CAN I SMELL AND FEEL THE GUY NEXT TO ME BUT NOT SEE HIM EVEN WHEN I CAN SEE THE IMAGES ON THE WALL. LIKE THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS THEY STARTED THINKING AND ASKING QUESTIONS AND SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS. THEY SAW IT IN THEIR MINDS NOT WITH THEIR EYES.
- Want to build bridges to radical digital transformation? You’ll have to help your coworker and your bosses start to think and question. instead of light sabers and phasers and sonic screwdrivers you’ll need digital officers transformation teams better costs faster timelines better features more engagement more nimble responses proof of concepts you’ll need evangelists
- Your goal is to retire, recycle, reuse, repurpose bridges/systems that are no longer worth crossing find the keystones, they won’t all look the same, remove them so you can free the prisoners, so they will see the light so the prisoners can help you build bridges to places you all want to go find the keystone the arch will collapse start by looking at the money, money is a keystone as often as not then keep looking, sometime it is more than money – it is people, and politics, and policy but when you find it and remove it the arch will collapse you will free the prisoners, your coworkers run together toward transformation CLICK do it before people get hurt
- So how did it all turn out for our friends?
- Read over these yourselves. My focus is on the last one. Make people think. Stop telling them the answers. Ask them for critical solutions. When they realize that the old way of doing things is no longer a viable solution they will come up, see the light and move toward transformation with you. Thank you for your indulgence. I hope some of these messages have resonated. And I hope to see you all again. Tomorrow I’ll be teaching site building and project management sessions and I hope to see some of you there.
- In this course we’ll take a more in depth look at many of the capabilities available with Drupal 8. Drupal 8 is the next up-and-coming version of Drupal. It’s not considered ready for prime time, but if you’re thinking about building a site in the next year you might be wondering about Drupal 8.
- CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TEAM