DT&L Schedule (M)

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Before Week 1

You will complete this deliverable by visiting the Before We Begin page of ShannonWeb.

• Review Syllabus, Calendar, Deliverables and Course Policies in ShannonWeb
• Visit the DT&L Library at ShannonWeb
• Set up your Slack profile
• Complete the Introduce Yourself and Learning Contract posts in Slack

Source Materials

• FTI: 2019 Tech Trends Report
• FTI: 2018 Tech Trends Report
• Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019
• Deloitte Tech Trends 2019
  • Executive Summary
  • Full Report

Week 1, Classes 1 & 2 | Introduction To DT&L

• During Class
  • Introduction to DT&L (Monday)
  • Discuss DT&L Project
    • Team Organization
    • Project Focus
  • DT&L alumni discussion (Wednesday)

Week 2, Class 3 | How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?

Monday: Labor Day – No Class

• Review Before Class (Wednesday)
  • FTI: 2019 Tech Trends Report
    • Prepare pps. 1-4, 10-28, 66-67
    • Review pps. 5-9, 29-64
  • The Flare and Focus of Successful Futurists, Webb
  • How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist, Webb
• During Class (Wednesday)
  • Using the FTI framework & materials
  • Review current events

Week 3, Classes 4 & 5 | Dots… What Dots? & Creativity & Ideas

• Review Before Class (Monday)
  • Back To The Future (of 1994), Danny Hillis
  • A 30 Year History Of The Future, Nicholas Negroponte
  • Why We Need To Imagine Different Futures, Anab Jain
  • The World In 2200, Pete Alcorn
• During Class (Monday)
  • How Did We Get Here?
  • Review current events

• Review Before Class (Wednesday)
  • Creativity, Wikipedia
  • Ideas, Wikipedia
  • The Power Of Creativity And Ideas
    • MIT’s Media Lab
    • How Art, Technology & Design Inform Creative Leaders, John Maeda
    • Where Tomorrow’s Technology Is Born
    • Inside MIT’s “Future Factory”
    • Meet The Sixth Sense Interaction
    • The Thrilling Potential Of Sixth Sense Technology
    • Land of the Giants, Ep1: The Rise of Amazon (dropped 7/22/19)
• During Class (Wednesday)
  • Discuss Creativity & Ideas
  • Review current events
  • Thinking Outside The Box Exercise: prep deck to explain 9 dot puzzle and out of the box thinking

Week 4, Classes 6 & 7 | Disruptive Innovation & Jobs To Be Done

• Review Before Class (Monday)
  • What is Disruptive Innovation?
  • Disruptive Innovation, Clayton Christiansen
  • The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation
  • Disruptive Innovation, Robert Perrons
  • The Art of Innovation, Guy Kawasaki
  • Airbnb and the Unintended Consequences of ‘Disruption’, Derek Thompson
• During Class (Monday)
  • Discuss Disruptive Innovation
  • Review current events

• Review Before Class (Wednesday)
  • What Is Jobs-to-be-Done?
  • Jobs-To-Be-Done Theory and Methodology
  • Jobs-To-Be-Done Framework
  • Jobs-To-Be-Done Examples and Rules
  • Applying Jobs-to-be-Done Theory
  • Outcome-Driven Innovation Process – Overview
  • Land of the Giants, Ep2: Why You’ll Never Quit Amazon Prime (dropped 7/23/19)
• During Class (Wednesday)
  • Applying JBTD
  • Review current events

Week 5, Classes 8 & 9 | Digital Transformation & The Future

• Review Before Class
  • Digital Transformation, Wikipedia
  • History of the Internet,  Wikipedia
  • Introducing the Digital Transformation Initiative, World Economic Forum
  • The Six Stages of Digital Transformation Maturity, Brian Solis
  • What Will a Future Without Secrets Look Like?, Alessandro Acquisti
  • A Roadmap for a Digital Transformation, McKinsey
  • Five Moves To Make During A Digital Transformation, McKinsey
  • The Seven Decisions That Matter In A Digital Transformation: A CEO’s Guide To Reinvention, McKinsey
  • Anatomy of Failure: Mobile Flops from RIM, Microsoft, and Nokia, Galen Gruman
  • Land of the Giants, Ep3: Alexa, What’s Amazon Doing Inside My Home? (dropped 7/30/19)
• During Class
  • Discuss Dx
  • Review current events

Week 6, Classes 10 & 11 | Aggregation Theory

• Review Before Class
  • An Introduction to Aggregation Theory, Anuj Abrol
  • Aggregation Theory and Digital Platforms, Ben Thompson
  • Aggregation Theory, Ben Thompson
  • How ‘Aggregation Theory’ is Fueling a Multi-Trillion Dollar Technology Revolution, Tikue Anazodo
  • Aggregation Theory: The Most Powerful Economics Theory You Didn’t Learn at University, David Lifely
  • Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox, 126 Yale Law Journal 3 (2017)
  • Land of the Giants, Ep4: When Amazon Leaves Your Town (dropped 8/6/19)
• During Class
  • Discuss Aggregation Theory
  • Review current events
• Deliverable
  • Project Phase 1 due Sunday no later than 11p

Week 7 & 8, Classes 12, 13 & 14 | Artificial Intelligence

• Review Before Class
  • FTI: 2019 Tech Trends Report
    • Prepare pps. 70-94
  • Artificial Intelligence, Wikipedia
  • Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence, Wikipedia
  • The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI, Maurice Conti
  • What Moral Decisions Should Driverless Cars Make?, Iyad Rawan
  • Machine Intelligence Makes Human Morals More Important, Zeynep Tufekci
  • The Wonderful and Terrifying Implications of Computers That Can Learn, Jeremy Howard
  • This App Knows How You Feel From The Look On Your Face, Rana el Kaliouby
  • How To Get Empowered, not Overpowered, By AI, Max Tegmark
  • Top 9 Ethical Issues In Artificial Intelligence, Julia Bossmann
  • New Research Alliance Cements Split on AI Ethics, David Matthews
  • Inside Amazon’s Artificial Intelligence Flywheel, Steven Levy
  • Machine Learning Proves Its Worth to Business, Bob Violino
  • Elon Musk’s Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse, Maureen Dowd
  • Land of the Giants, Ep5: Why the Robot Revolution is Our Fault (dropped 8/13/19)
• During Class
  • Discuss AI
  • Review current events
• Deliverable
  • Project Phase 2 due Sunday no later than 11p on Sunday, 10/13
  • Project Phase 3 Script Reviews | Schedule two hour blocks between 10a and 4p on Thursday (10/17) and Friday (10/18)

Week 9, Classes 15 & 16 | IoT

• Review Before Class
  • Internet of Things, Wikipedia
  • Metcalfe’s Law, Wikipedia
  • Welcome to the Age of the Industrial Internet, Marco Annunziata
  • Internet of Things is Now and the Future, Wei Xiang
  • Everything Around You Can Become a Computer, Ivan Poupyrev
  • Internet of Things Security, Ken Munro
  • Land of the Giants, Ep6: How Amazon Charmed Wall Street (dropped 8/20/19)
• During Class
  • Discuss IoT
  • Review current events

Week 12, Classes 21 & 22 | The Future of Work

• Review Before Class
  • Maybe the Gig Economy Never Was What It Used to Be
  • Machine Learning Will Redesign, Not Replace, Work
  • Workforce Of The Future – 2030, PWC
  • 3 Myths About the Future of Work, Daniel Susskind
  • How We’ll Earn Money In A Future Without Jobs, Martin Ford
  • The Future of Work — 3 Mega-Trends, Graham Brown-Martin
  • Harnessing Automation For A Future That Works, McKinsey & Company
  • Humanity Is More Important Than Money — It’s Time For Capitalism To Get An Upgrade, Andrew Yang
  • Why We Should Value ‘Invisible Labor, Yonatan Zunger
  • Technological Unemployment and UBI, Michael K. Spencer
  • Capitalism Has a Problem. Is Free Money the Answer?, Peter S. Goodman
  • Amazon
    • Land of the Giants, All Episodes
    • Is Amazon Unstoppable?
    • Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan
• During Class
  • Discuss the future of work
  • Review current events
• Deliverable
  • Completed DT&L Projects Posted No Later Than Sunday at 6p