(from the Christensen Institute) The University of Texas-Austin’s Project 2021 — launched in 2016 with the goal to reinvent the undergraduate experience through redesigned course length, curricula and online learning — has been shuttered. School leaders cite lack of faculty and staff input and clear goals. An outside expert argues that the school failed to consider its business model.
"To give innovation a fighting chance, leaders need to take stock of their business models and think through the implications of innovation for the institution’s resources, processes and priorities," said Alana Dunagan of the Christensen Institute. Resources are more flexible than processes, she explained. "Innovators should build heavyweight teams to support process changes and autonomous units to support models that risk being perceived as running against the grain of organizational priorities."
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