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Instructor: OMAR A. EL SAWY Professor of Information Systems http://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/directory/elsawy e-mail: elsawy@marshall.usc.edu Mobile phone: 310-991-omar or 310-991-6627 (mobile better phone number than office!) Office Location: Bridge Hall 401-L (Information & Operations Management Department) Office Hours: By appointment or 5-6 pm on non-guest speaker days or after class Office phone: 213-740-4837 (direct / voice mail) or 213-740-0172 (dept.)
This course uses lectures, case studies, articles, industry reports, and features industry guest speakers who provide current practice insights. The course draws on the expertise and contacts of CTM -- Marshalls Institute for Communications Technology Management and its 20+ sponsoring companies www.marshall.usc.edu/ctm, and was initially designed in 2006 by Omar El Sawy & Francis Pereira with input from CTMs Industry Board of Directors. This course provides a good combo with IOM 543 (Global Issues in the Networked Digital Industry) taught by Professor Francis Pereira in the Fall, and with GSBA 555 (Managing in the Creative Industries) taught by Professor Mark Young in the Spring.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AS NEXUS OF THE NDI ECOSYSTEM AND THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
While the Networked Digital Industry is a global industry, Southern California sits in a very special place at the heart of Digital Hollywood and the heart of the creativity and content industries from movies to television to music and games. Just to our north lies Silicon Valley with its world wide reputation for leading the changes in hardware and software that continue to drive the IT industry. To our south, in San Diego, lies the single largest concentration of wireless ingenuity and expertise in North America. To our West are countries such as Korea, China, India and others in the Pacific Rim close enough for Los Angeles to be their gateway to North America for their leading edge experiences in new services delivered on digital platforms. As this new world is being born, we literally sit at its crossroads with the opportunity to watch, participate, and help rethink developments as these new business models trigger a new and evolving digital business ecosystem. Southern California is definitely associated with the digital cool. It is an exciting spot for USC to be in !
RELATED BOOKS
If you have any deeper special interest in any of the topics we will cover, these books are commendably intriguing and usefully fun (not required) depending on your deeper interest. They cover new business models for digital platforms and ecological approaches to strategic innovation, value realization, digital innovation, as well as the evolution of the networked digital industry. They are listed in order of most recent publication date. El Sawy, Omar and Francis Pereira, Business Modeling in the Dynamic Digital Space: An Ecosystem Approach, Springer, 2013. Keen, Peter & Ron Williams The Value Path: Embedding Innovation in Everyday Business When the Customer Makes the Rules, Business Futures Press, 2012. Ng, Irene Value & Worth: Creating New Markets in the Digital Economy , Innovorsa Press, Cambridge, 2012. Steiner, Christopher Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule our World, Penguin Books, 2012. Simon, Phil The Age of the Platform, Motion Publishing, 2011 Anderson, Chris Free: How Today's Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving Something for Nothing, Hyperion Press, 2010 Afuah, Allan Strategic Innovation: New Games for Competitive Advantage, Routledge, New York, 2009. Anderson, Chris FREE: The Future of a Radical Price, Hyperion Press, 2009. Knee, Jonathan, Bruce Greenwald, & Ava Seave The Curse of the Mogul: Whats Wrong with the Leading Media Companies, Penguin 2009. Osterwalder, Alexander & Yves Pigneur Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers , Wiley Press, 2009. Reeves, Byron and Leighton Read, Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses Compete, Harvard Business School Press, 2009. Bouwmann, Harry et. al (Editors) Mobile Service Innovation and Business Models, Springer-Verlag, 2008. Shuen, Amy Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide, OReilly Press, 2008. Tapscott, Don & Anthony Williams Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Expanded Edition, Penguin Books, 2008. Chesbrough, Henry Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape , Harvard Business School Press, 2006. Vesa, Jarkko Mobile Services in the Networked Economy, IRM Press, 2005. Christensen, Clayton, Scott Anthony, & Erika Roth Seeing Whats Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change, Harvard Business School Press, 2004. Iansiti, Marco & Roy Levien The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability, Harvard Business School Press, 2004. GSBA 556 EL SAWY Spring 2012 Version Jan 11, 2013
Session # Part 1 1 Jan 15 Date Topic 2 Jan 22
Cases/Assignments (Guest speakers TBA) McKinsey Quarterly: 10 Tech-Enabled Trends to Watch VISOR Business Model Framework Case #0: Ericsson SEJ: X-Boundary Disruptors HBR: Surviving Disruption Case #1 Apple HBR: Strategy as Ecology HBS: SAP Ecosystem Orchestration Case #2: Nintendo HBR: Art of Managing Complementors SMR: Companies as Platform Leaders Case #3: Intellectual Ventures Inc. SMR: IP Strategy & Open Innovation HBR: Funding Eureka (Guest speakers TBA) Case #4 Google HBR: Reverse Engineering Google HBR: Whats Your Google Strategy Case #5 HTC HBR: Defeating Feature Fatigue Case #6 Hulu HBS: The Biz Development Manager HBR: Matching Innovation Strategy Report #1: NDI Ecosystem Niche Assessment Brief Due HBS: A Note on Scenario Planning
DNA of the NDI: Digital Convergence or Creative Collisions ? Ecological Approaches to Strategy & Digital Business Ecosystems Complementors, Competitors, and Digital Platforms Intellectual Property Strategy in Digital Business Ecosystems
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Part 2 6 Feb 19
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Feb 26 Mar 5
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Part 3 10 Mar 26
(Guest Speakers TBA) Case #7 Make it Work SMR: Value thru Biz Model Innovation HBS: Best Buy in Crisis Case #8 Sony Keitei Japan HBR: Should you Invest in Long Tail ? HBR: Strategies for 2-Sided Markets Case #9: TopCoder Orange: Porous Enterprise SMR: Open Innovation in Lean Times Case#10 LinkedIn HBR: Reinventing Your Business Model HBR: Competing with Free
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User-Generated Content & Long Tail Business Models Crowd-Sourcing Business Models
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GRANDE FINALE !
ReVisioning Game Changers for the Future Project Presentations TBA Report #2: Business Model Proposal Report Due