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Fish or Fowl?
Vendor orDIYor …?
Mission
Over the next 11.5 minutes we will consider • Schizophrenia in library solutions procurement• The hopelessness of hegemony• The transcendence of LMS Change
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Mission
Over the next 11 minutes we will consider • Schizophrenia in library solutions procurement• The hopelessness of hegemony• The transcendence of LMS Change
Alternatively stated as … We will consider …• Challenges and opportunities beyond the standard ‘tick
list’ of requirements • Resources recently published by the Jisc funded LMS
Change project
Problem 1 - Schizophrenia
Library systems procurement is conflicted • We want to replace a system v.
We want a bigger solution• We know what we do now v.
Who knows what we might de doing in “the future”• We want shrink wrapped serviced software (COTS) v.
We want a helping hand• We want a one stop solution v.
Some suppliers want to bring their friends• We want a vendor to beat up v.
Some options don’t have vendors• (etc)
InstitutionalLibrary
Services
Learning& TeachingAssets
EnterpriseApplications
EnterpriseInfrastructure
ResearchAssets
OpenPublishing
BringYour OwnEnvironment
CommunityShared Services
ProprietaryShared Services
Social Media
PublishingPlatforms
Search Engines
LinkedData
OnlineCourses
Text BookEvolution
CloudStorage
IdentityMgmt
AnalyticsTrading
HorizontalEnterpriseIntegration
VerticalDomainIntegration
WebScaleActivity
Analytics Analytics
http://lmsguidance.jiscinvolve.org/wp/policy-direction/
Problem 2 - Hegemony
LMS Change ecosystem considerations in 2013
extend significantly beyond the service
boundaries and actors set out in the 2009 HEFCE
study, thus reinforcing its recommendations
Image – Shared Services & The Local Library Platform – October 2012 - Innovative Interfaces
Shared Services in the UK
Digital Darwinism for Dummies• Fact? (My assertion) – It’s a mixed economy, an evolving ecosystem• Fact? (King of the jungle) – I have you covered
• Observations (Darwin, MIT90s, Kelly)– Ecosystems are not always nice– Only change is certain … and the cycles keep getting shorter– Agility is the key to survival
• Possible Responses– Pretend this is not the case– Roll with the fittest survivor– Promote those that play well together
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/15/colleges-prepare-major-software-upgrades-kuali-tries-woo-them-corporate-vendors
Identifying the fittest
• Tick all the operational boxes• Can and will do everything themselves• Play well in the local ecosystem
– “Do not preclude the library from taking part in [enterprise] conversations” - Winkler
• Play well in the community / global ecosystem• Understand the other LSP players• With appetite and resources to address the challenges you bring
• Live up to this in your procurement by– Engaging in creative dialogue– Demonstrating the working parts (e.g. Open interfaces, open data)– Agreeing mechanisms to make this happen on an ongoing basis
Spot the deliberate
error?
LMS Change Methods - for working though options internally and with potential suppliers
http://lmsguidance.jiscinvolve.org/wp/methods-toolbox/
It’s your fault not theirs
How about …• Don’t procure ‘a system’• Don’t construct the business case around ‘a system’• Think out of the box about risk• Disconnect ‘the system’ from ‘the contractor’• Procure against more than a tick list• Devise scoring that reflects the balance between
functionality, integration and ‘commitment’• Capture ‘commitments’ and services explicitly in the
contract
Steady on! I’ve never done this
before
And procurement won’t
understand
