A Handbook for Creative Disruption of the Public Sector — Yikes!
Here is a handbook, Public Sector, Disrupted: How Disruptive Innovation Can Help Government Achieve More for Less, for transformation of the public sector—including public schools—via creative disruption. While it says it is published by Deloitte University Press, it is really just a report from Deloitte Development LLC, the business consultant.
Authored by William Eggers and published in 2013, it examines five cases in which Eggers believes creative disruption will break “seemingly immutable trade-offs” in the public sector where “costs and prices generally rise over time”:
- criminal justice via electronic monitoring;
- defense via unmanned aerial vehicles (drones);
- K-12 education via the “personalized learning experience” of on-line classes;
- higher education again via on-line learning; and
- the collection and analysis of intelligence via open source data analytics.
According to Eggers,”Disruptive innovation is about finding new business models that allow you to break traditional trade-offs.” In education, “The trade-off schools have faced is between the kind of standardized teaching that occurs in most public-school classrooms and the more personalized instruction a student might receive from a tutor or at an elite prep school… The trade-off, however, is that such reforms typically are quite expensive. Online learning, or a blended learning environment of digital learning and traditional instruction, may be capable of breaking this trade-off. How? By personalizing the learning experience according to individual student learning styles and pace, and doing so without increasing the number of teachers.” Not quite the same definition of personalization as the elite prep school? Which classroom behaviors is Eggers collectively dismissing as “the kind of standardized teaching that occurs in most public-school classrooms”? No matter. Stay focused on how to disrupt.
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