IS 290-8 : Strategic Planning During Technology Revolutions

Administrivia

Teaching Team 

Professor Larry Downes

Email: larry@larrydownes.com

Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30pm-3:30pm F487 Haas Faculty Building , Thursday 2:30pm-3:30pm 311 South Hall

Course Information

Information Management and Systems INFOSYS 290-8

Haas School of Business BUS ADM 290-8

School of Engineering ENG 290-8

Course Dates: August 31 to December 15, 2004

Lecture Schedule: Tuesday Thursday 11:00am-12:30pm in C220 Chiet Hall

Units: 3

Grading Option: Letter Grade only

Course Texts

Required

Unleashing the Killer App, Larry Downes. Harvard Business School Press, 1998.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn. University of Chicago, 1962.

The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen. Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

The Strategy Machine, Larry Downes. HarperBusiness, 2002.

Course Work

Module A - What is Strategy?

August 31 : Tuesday

Introductory Lecture: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, RIP 

September 2 : Thursday

What is Strategy? 

Required Readings

"What is Strategy?" Michael A. Porter [Online]

Harvard Business Review (1996-11-01)

Available on Study.net

September 7 : Tuesday

Porter: The Five Forces, The Generic Strategies, The Value Chain 

September 9 : Thursday

The New Forces, The Oddity of the Generic Strategies 

Module B – Some Critiques of the Academic Approach

September 14 : Tuesday

The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning 

September 16 : Thursday

Digital Strategy 

Required Readings

Chapters 1-3 of Unleashing the Killer App [Textbook]

Module C – Disruptive Technologies: The Killer App

September 21 : Tuesday

Historical Perspectives: Adams, Kuhn, White 

This discussion will include a brief lecture on Lynn White Jr., Medieval Technology and Social Change (Oxford 1962).

Required Readings

"A Law of Acceleration" Henry Adams [Online]

Study.net download

entire book of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [Textbook]

September 23 : Thursday

Historical Perspectives (continued) 

September 28 : Tuesday

The Killer App: An Update 

September 30 : Thursday

Does IT Matter? 

Required Readings

"IT Doesn’t Matter" Nicholas Carr [Online]

(2003-05-01)

Available on Study.Net

"Strategy and the Internet" Michael A. Porter [Online]

(2001-05-01)

Available on Study.Net

Final Paper assigned 

Due on December 9

Assignment details

Module D - Innovation: The Dilemma and the Chasm

October 5 : Tuesday

Christensen: The Dilemma 

Required Readings

entire book of The Innovator’s Dilemma [Textbook]

October 7 : Thursday

Moore: The Chasm 

October 12 : Tuesday

Review of Part I 

October 14 : Thursday

Midterm Exam 

11:00am-12:30pm, In-class

Module E - The Revolutionary Strategies and Design Principles

October 19 : Tuesday

Revolutionary Strategies 

Required Readings

Chapter 1-2 of The Strategy Machine [Textbook]

October 21 : Thursday

Rules for Revolutionaries 

October 26 : Tuesday

Killer App Design Principles 

Required Readings

Chapter 4-6 of Unleashing the Killer App [Textbook]

October 28 : Thursday

Design Principles (continued) 

Module F - Industry Transformation

November 2 : Tuesday

Design Principles Update 

November 4 : Thursday

Industry Transformation 

Required Readings

Chapter 3 of The Strategy Machine [Textbook]

November 9 : Tuesday

The Information Supply Chain 

Required Readings

Chapter 4 of The Strategy Machine [Textbook]

November 11 : Thursday : Veterans Day

Holiday: No Class 

Module G - Strategic Planning During Technology Revolutions

November 16 : Tuesday

Strategy Portfolio 

Required Readings

Chapter 5 of The Strategy Machine [Textbook]

November 18 : Thursday

Information Assets and the Value Curve 

Required Readings

Chapter 6 of The Strategy Machine [Textbook]

Module H - Execution Issues

November 23 : Tuesday

The Sociology of Strategy 

Required Readings

Chapter 8 of The Strategy Machine [Textbook]

November 25 : Thursday : Thanksgiving

Holiday: No Class 

November 30 : Tuesday

Execution Obstaclese 

Required Readings

Chapters 9-10 of The Strategy Machine [Textbook]

December 2 : Thursday

The Regulatory Crisis 

Module I - Slouching Towards Academia

December 7 : Tuesday

The Five Revolutionary Strategies Revisited 

December 9 : Thursday

Final Thoughts 

Final Paper due 

Assignment details

last updated on 2004-09-05 by Lisa