Keynotes presentation by Phil Richards, Jisc Chief Innovation Officer at Cetis Conference 2014: Building the Digital Institution on the 17th June 2014 at the University of Bolton

1. Phil Richards,Chief Innovation Officer, Jisc
Cetis Conference 2014
Innovating for the digital institution17/06/2014

2. Outline
»Why does Jisc need to innovate?
»Jisc post-Wilson review
»Jisc Digital Futures Division
»Futures pipeline
»Co-design
»Standards and innovation
»Questions & discussion

3. Why does Jisc need to innovate?

4. Townsend Building (ex Electrical Lab), Oxford Physics

5. Commodity-complexity model
Dynamic equilibrium
Commodity IT
buy on demand
Complexity IT
insource, innovate

6. OSI stack – the only way is up?

7. Innovation example – augmented reality learning
Video link – Matt Ramirez, Mimas/Jisc

8. Jisc post-Wilson review

9. Wilson positives
»‘Internationally, Jisc is one of a small group of
organisations acknowledged to be “world class” in
providing leadership in ICT’
»‘Jisc is unique in the UK, providing what many
stakeholders have described as a “holistic approach” to
the sectors’ needs’

10. Wilson improvement areas
»‘The portfolio is too large’
»‘The application process is opaque’
»‘Few projects are translated into live services or take too
long to develop’
»‘It is important for Jisc not to see itself primarily as a
research organisation or to engage in a large number of
speculative projects’

11. Jisc for new times
Our mission
To enable people in higher education, further education and skills in the UK to
perform at the forefront of international practice by exploiting fully the possibilities
of modern digital empowerment, content and connectivity.
…New opportunities…Unprecedented
challenges
Fast developing
capabilities
HE, FE & Skills Digital technologies
Value in the here and now Selective investment in new futures

12. Jisc leadership team (JLT)
26/11/2013 Annual review: Professor Martyn Harrow, chief executive, Jisc 12
Robert Haymon-Collins
Executive director
customer experience
Tim Marshall
Executive director
technology and
infrastructure and
divisional CEO Janet
Alice Colban
Chief operating officer
Mark Wright
Chief financial officer
Lorraine Estelle
Executive director digital
resources and divisional
CEO Jisc Collections
Phil Richards
Chief innovation officer
Martyn Harrow
Chief executive

13. Strategic framework impact areas

14. Jisc Digital Futures Division

15. Digital futures division
Customer
implementation
support programmes
Chief innovation
officer
Phil Richards
Deputy chief
innovation
officer
Andy McGregor
Deputy chief
innovation
officer
Rachel Bruce
Futurist
Martin Hamilton
Director of data
and analytics
TBD
Head of
scholarly and
library futures
Ben Showers
Co-design
support
manager
KeithThomas

16. The digital futures proposition
The goal is
Delivered by
Facilitated by
Using
Developing new national shared technology services
Collaborating across the sector
Jisc as a national body with a technology focus
Co-design, Jisc’s innovation method

17. Futures pipeline

18. Example – Futures pipeline layer cake
New people & policy development
New big data and content access
Open software on demand
Cloud computing capacity
Identity, access and security
Janet 6 network

19. Futures pipeline risk distribution
High
Futures
projects
commissioned
Risk of Futures project not leading to production service
Low
Few
Many

20. Group and regional engagement 2014
»Complement and build upon
National Stakeholder Forum
»Leverage Jisc RSC and Janet
Customer Engagement networks
»Communicate changes at Jisc
»Seek Co-design partners and ideas

21. Conversion to new production Jisc services
Futures
pipeline
Jisc product catalogue
Jisc.ac.uk/membership
Co-design
development
cycle
and handover
Jisc impact areas
Stakeholder prioritisation
Risk distribution
or guidance, lessons
learnt, etc.

22. Co-design

23. Co-design principles
Focused
User-centredAgile
Partnership
Experimental

24. The co-design process

25. Co-design pilot 2013-14
1. Access and identity management
2. National monograph strategy
3. Summer of student innovation
4. Digital student
5. Open mirror
6. Spotlight on the digital
7. Extending Knowledge Base +
Five original Co-design partners: RLUK, RUGIT, SCONUL, UCISA and Jisc

26. Jisc Summer of Student Innovation
How it works:
» Create – Make a video to explain
your idea
» Share – Upload your video and
encourage people to vote
» Vote - If you hit the voting target
we will consider it for funding
So if you have a brainwave, come and
join us for a Summer of Student
Innovation:
jisc.ac.uk/student-innovation

27. The first success story?

28. Worldwide take up
»52 active UK
universities
»9 international
universities

29. Co-design 2014

30. Upscaled Co-design

31. QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

32. QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

33. QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

34. QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

35. QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

36. Standards and innovation

37. The perfect is the enemy of the good
»NHS Connecting for Health data spine
› Highly specified
› Large sums invested
› Success?
»Can we think of similar
examples in HE and FE?

38. Self-organisation in complex systems
»Sugata Mitra – ‘hole in the wall’ self-organised learning
»Innovative, successful
learning technology without
standards?
»Or is the way the system is
seeded the de facto standard here?

39. Wikimedia
»The ultimate self-organised educational resource?
»Simple on-line framework ‘seeds’ system
»Standards emerge as strong ‘culture’ among community
of contributors
»Highly innovative
»Can we deny its value as
a resource set?

40. LTI and Basic LTI
»LTI
› Rigorous standard
› Addresses clear need
»Basic LTI
› Charles Severance (Sakai)
› Pragmatic, lighter touch
› Uptake e.g. CanvasVLE App Centre
› Stimulating plug-in innovation etc.

41. Possible current need for a light touch standard?
»On-line coursework submission and plagiarism detection
› Alleged performance issues from leading UK solution
› Other solutions are available…
»Light touch standard to allow abstraction layer?
› Remove vendor lock-in
› Give leverage back to the customers

42. My model for standards that support innovation
»The most successful standards help seed complex
systems – not micro-define
»They are lighter touch – leaving room for systems to self-
organise
› They leave the space for innovation
»They do not become ends in themselves
»Do you agree?
› Can you think of other examples that fit the above?
› Can you think of examples that do not?

43. Summary

44. Summary
»Need for innovation
»‘One Jisc’
»Digital Futures
»Co-design 2014
»Standards that seed innovation

45. Questions & discussion

46. Find out more…
Dr Phil Richards
Chief InnovationOfficer
p.richards@jisc.ac.uk
One Castlepark Tower Hill Bristol BS2 0JA
T 020 3697 5800
info@jisc.ac.uk jisc.ac.uk
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