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Leading in the digital age. … the future for university administrators in a digital world
Jane den Hollander AOVice-Chancellor Deakin University
We face a convergence of disruptive forces
Universities face the same challenges as organisations everywhere…
Escalating costs, changing demographics, shifts in public funding and a mounting pressure to be ever more productive and efficient
Taking the world from hand power and home production to machine made and factory built
Innovations in transport with new labour forces and production techniques
Electronics and IT automate production
and revolutionise communication
Combining the physical, digital and the
biological worlds
1769steam engine
2010iPad
1991WWW
1903aeroplane
1888electric motor
1879lightbulb
1876telephone
2005YouTube
1993email
2004Facebook
2007iPhone
19431st computer
1977Apple 2
1998Google
2014-2017
driverless car IBM Watson 3D printing nanosurgery
wearables VR robotics electric car Big Data
Cognitive computing renewable energy Blockchain
Technology driven change is not new
Invention of the printing press led to an unprecedented expansion of literacy
Industrial Revolution 4.0
Industrial Revolution 3.0
Industrial Revolution 2.0
Industrial Revolution 1.0
Printing Revolution
1440Gutenberg’s
printing press
The second machine age and the evolution of Artificial Intelligence … a churning mix of opportunities, threats and ambiguities
We need to build the appetite for disruption in our staff …
Building our digital maturity and embedding digital across the breadth and depth of our universities not just in our IT departments
Flexibility is the new black …
The consumers of today’s higher education will study what they want to study, not what academics want to teach
Success in the machine age will depend on humans and machines working together … the skills with the longest shelf life are the uniquely human skills
Deakin’s smart campus enablers
Big data is big deal
Data are now woven into every function in our institutions and will become the basis of competition, productivity and growth
Privacy
Cyber security
Blockchain
New business and delivery models are gaining traction
MOOCs free us from fixed concepts of meritocratic selection and preconceived notions of who should go to university and when that might happen
What matters to students? course quality university reputation feeling supported a good job at the end
Successful leaders in the digital age
humility
“Be stubborn on vision and flexible on details”
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
collegiality
flexibility
ownership
resilience
courage
Thank you