Online Course
Surviving Disruptive Technologies (On Demand)
University of Maryland, College Park via Coursera
Overview
Class Central Tips
By highlighting the reasons for the decline of firms and industries, participants can begin to understand how to keep the same thing from happening to them. Through the study of successful organizations, we will try to tease out approaches to disruptions that actually work. Our ultimate objective is to develop a strategy for survival in a world confronting one disruptive technology after another.
Syllabus
-A Model and framework to help understand disruptive technologies
1.2
-Some examples of companies that were not able to survive disruptive technologies
2.1
-A company that did not survive and its disruptor
2.2
-Another story of disruption and a summary of our examples
3.1
-Newspapers are an important component of a democratic society; the Internet threatens them in a number of ways
3.2
-Social media has transformed the way people relate to each other, but it has a disruptive component that is worrying
4.1
-Two companies in this module are private and are very successful; a quasi-public agency has a hard time competing with them and their technology
13
-Conclusions about disruption
14
-Suggestions for how to respond to a disruptive technology
15
-Survival in the physical world
Taught by
Professor Hank Lucas
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Reviews
3.0 rating, based on 5 reviews
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Pete Olds completed this course, spending 4 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.
This course was worth it for the lecturer's Case Studies alone. I have recommended a lot of people take this as a great way of getting a broader perspective of business and change.
And it was all well presented - to the point where this is one of the few lecturers I actively look for with the intention of enrolling in his courses.
It looks like the material has got a little corrupt since I did the course - which is a real shame Hopefully Coursera will fix that and restore the old stuff to it's rightful state :-) -
Adtya completed this course and found the course difficulty to be easy.
I really like the instructor but there is serious issue with the course content! Please remove irrelevant videos. I'm sorry.
Message to the instructor: I Do respect you, Sir. I appreciate the effort you have made in making the course videos. But all the knowledge in your course is fit for a book, not a course. A book would be quite good, but for a course the material is really poor. I feel bad to say this. I wish you update the content. -
Candice Hincksman
Candice Hincksman completed this course, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.
The most poorly organised MOOC I've ever taken. There were technical problems the staff refused to attend to. Communication about these issues was absent. Assignments were vague and disorganised. Someone needs to write a book called "I survived 'Surviving Disruptive Technologies'". -
Anonymous
Anonymous completed this course.
Very interesting content and the forums were very useful and informative. The class is only in it's second iteration and so there was some confusion with grading and admin support. -
Anonymous
Anonymous completed this course.
Very interesting class. I found the assignments time consuming, but the lectures were very interesting.
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