2. Disruption
Disruptive innovation, a term coined by Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business
School Professor, describes a process by which a product or service takes root
initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly
moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors.
Some examples of disruptive innovation include:
Disruptor Disruptee
Personal computers Mainframe and mini computers
Digital Photograph Film Photography
Cellular phones Fixed line telephony
Disruptive
products don’t
have to be
cheaper
Low-end
disruptions are
usually inferior
A better
product isn’t
necessarily
disruptive
Business
models, not
products, are
disruptive
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2
3. Disruption in context to the Information Industry
New Technologies will both expand
and limit who has access to
information
TREND 1 TREND 2
Online education will democratize
and disrupt global learning
TREND 3
TREND 4TREND 5
The boundaries of privacy and
data protection will be redefined
Hyper-connected societies will
listen to and empower new
voices and groups
The Global Information economy
will be transformed by new
technologies
• “Perception matters more than reality” - The Crisis in Research Librarianship, Rick Anderson
• If we live in a sea of turbulence, without any hope of choice, let me offer a recipe with five actions to survive in that environment, says
Steve O’Connor in his article titled ‘Caught in the tide of change: how libraries can adapt to turbulent times’. Last suggestion of his recipe is
MARKET, MARKET, MARKET
Source: Riding the Waves or Caught in the Tide? Insights from the IFLA Trend Report, 2013
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4. The new code for Disruption –
“Every consumer is a digital customer with unique user experience preferences”
• In his book, Forrester’s James McQuivey explains
that digital/tech advances are creating opportunities
for more people than ever before to meet more
customer needs at lower costs –and that creates
digital disruption.
• He writes: “If people plus infrastructure equal
disruption, then digital innovation plus digital
infrastructure equals digital disruption.
• Brian Solis, in this book “X:The Experience when Business
meets Design”, says - Customers aren’t looking for individual
products anymore, they want to have a full-service
experience that will not only solve their problem, but excite
and delight them at the same time
• Experiences are more important than products now. In fact,
experiences are the products
4
4
5. The new Marketing Model
Instead of
PRODUCT
Instead of
PLACE
Instead of
PRICE
Instead of
PROMOTION
Focus on
SOLUTION
Focus on
ACCESS
Focus on
VALUE
Focus on
EDUCATION
Engage with your audience
Provide information relevant to
specific needs at each touch
point
Explain your audience
effectiveness and efficiency of
the solution
Define offerings by the needs of
the audience
Source: Harvard Business Review Jan-Feb 2013 https://hbr.org/2013/01/rethinking-the-4-ps
weighed in on the issue with an article entitled Rethinking the 4 P’s to which Eduardo Conrado, SVP of Marketing and CMO at Motorola Solutions, contributed -. (4P's --
HBR -- SAVE). Conrado believes that for solutions marketers the fundamentals of marketing have shifted to a SAVE model
The usual 4P’s of
Marketing
SAVE Model of User Experience – is the new model of
Marketing
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5
6. “Enabling Research” “Doing Research” “Sharing Research”
Search, discover,
read, review
Synthesize/
AnalyzeExperiment
Recruit/evaluate
researchers
Secure
Funding
Manage
facilities
Publish and
disseminate
Manage
Data Promote
Commer
-cialize
Collaborate &
network
Establish
partnerships
?
Develop
Strategy
Have
impact
!
$
Instead of
PRODUCT
Focus on
SOLUTION
1
6
7. Govern-
ment
Funding
bodies
University and research
institution management
Researchers
Information Officers and Librarians
~200
~400
~2,700
~10,000
~7-10 million
Elsevier
global reach: Key Questions:
• How can I measure excellence?
• What is the impact of research we
fund?
• How are we doing relative to peers?
• With whom should I collaborate?
Instead of
PLACE
Focus on
ACCESS
2
• How can I discover?
• How can I evaluate, read article and
methods
• How can I showcase my work?
• How can we meet needs of our
stakeholders?
7
8. What do I need to know?
• Discover what others do not
• Stay on top of my field
• Evaluate, read articles and
methods
Productivity tools
• Store, manage and
publish data and receive
credits
How can I manage my
career?
• Showcase my work
A B C
Data platform and signals: Content, Citation Graph, User Behaviour, User Profiles, Social Network
“Enabling Research” “Doing Research” “Sharing Research”
Search, discover,
read, review
Synthesize/
AnalyzeExperiment
Recruit/evaluate
researchers
Secure
Funding
Manage
facilities
Publish and
disseminate
Manage
Data Promote
Commer
-cialize
Collaborate &
network
Establish
partnerships
?
Develop
Strategy
Have
impact
!
$
Instead of
PRICE
Focus on
VALUE
3
8
10. The work of a publisher: Consistently high quality
1.42
1.43
1.44
1.45
1.46
1.47
1.48
1.49
1.5
1.51
Average Author FWCI
1.506
1.489
1.453
Elsevier
Publisher A
Publisher B
11.5
12
12.5
13
13.5
14
14.5
15
15.5
16
Average Author H-Index
15.609
13.078 13.228
Elsevier
Publisher A
Publisher B
Publisher Authors
Average Author
FWCI
Elsevier 2,719,232 1.506
Publisher A 1,716,325 1.489
Publisher B 1,034,646 1.453
Publisher Authors
Average
Author H-Index
Elsevier 2,719,232 15.609
Publisher A 1,716,325 13.078
Publisher A 1,034,646 13.228
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11. Elsevier journals that rank No.1 in subject categories (2014)
No.1 in 62 categories
(out of 232 categories)
Source: Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports 2014
11
11
12. Get cited
Publish Cite
Disseminate
Global Elsevier Citations
Global References to Elsevier
Investigate
Global Elsevier Publications
CertifyCertifyCertify
Total STM reference,
publication & citations
share
Coverage: Approximately
5,000 publishers
Publisher B
Publisher A
Elsevier
Other
Publisher B
Publisher A
Elsevier
Other
Publisher B
Publisher A
Elsevier
Other
2010-2014
Publisher References Publications Citations
Elsevier 56,304,346 1,888,115 45,990,748
Publisher A 15,738,334 1,221,036 22,374,220
Publisher B 23,064,330 747,976 18,298,048
Other 116,371,011 5,261,600 95,192,376
Totals 211,478,021 9,118,727 181,855,392
Globally recognised high impact content
24 Citations Per Paper:
27% of all references
12
13. Elsevier is evolving its Open Access journal program
• Elsevier has over 100 Open Access Journals
& Growing
• 1,625 Elsevier titles offer sponsored access
Article available to all non-subscribers
Allows authors to publish open access in high
quality, indexed journals
Agreements with Welcome Trust and the UK
Medical Research Council to reimburse fees
• Launch of Heliyon
Elsevier’s Open Access megajournal
• Cell Press
Unrestricted access after 12-months
Launch of Open Access Cell Reports in 2011
• 96 Journals offer “delayed open access”
After a period of time specific to each journal
Elsevier Authors can post the peer-reviewed
AAMs on their institutional repositories and on
their own website immediately and voluntarily
13
14. Freedom Collection Volume Growth
2004
208,75
2003
193,56
2013
333,82
20142012
303,96
2011
293,75
2010
269,84
2009
272,66
2008
261,94
337,90
2007
249,08
2006
231,33
2005
214,09
351.79
2015
Leaver
Organic
Joiner
Sources & Notes: * Data includes Lancet * Published KPI article volume data source: EW * Published sponsored KPI article volume data source: PTS
Quantity Connection in delivering Value
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15. Value is the key to deliver Experience
Elsevier technology organisation
• Over 1,000 technologists in Elsevier
• Research development hubs in
London and Dayton
• Expertise in front-end development,
scalable big data solutions, content
enrichment
• Big data analytics platform HPCC
Elsevier Research Platforms
• ScienceDirect
─ Over 13m documents
─ Over 10m monthly unique visitors
─ More than 750m downloads,
growing at 10% per year -> 25
downloads per second
• Scopus
─ Over 50m items
─ Over 20,000 titles from 5,000
publishers worldwide
15
17. Govern-
ment
Funding
bodies
University and research
institution management
Researchers
Information Officers and Librarians
Summarize SAVE vs 4P’s
SOLUTION
EDUCATION
ACCESS VALUE
A. Digital innovation plus digital infrastructure equals digital disruption
B. Every consumer is a digital customer with unique user experience preferences
C. Experiences are the products
D. Together with Libraries, Elsevier is working on User Experience
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18. Libraries & Elsevier collaborate for User Experience….example
“Though automation can seem like magic,
it’s actually the result of librarians,
publishers and other vendors working
together to improve the user experience.”
Carlen Ruschoff
Director, Technical Services and Strategic
Initiatives, University of Maryland 18
Disruptive products don’t have to be cheaper
A disruption doesn’t need to be lower priced than existing products. However it could be simpler, more convenient or better experience. Example, Apple & Uber
Low-end disruptions are usually inferior
It is also possible to offer a low-end disruption through an inferior product. In fact, almost all disruptions start out with products that are inferior to those of the incumbents. This is possible when current customers are “over served” by existing products. Example Professional cameras vs Smart Phone cameras
A better product isn’t necessarily disruptive
Tesla has built new cars that I think are tremendous, but the company is not disruptive. It doesn’t address consumers who can’t solve their current problems with existing cars, and its cars are not far less expensive than the incumbents’ cars.
Business models, not products, are disruptive
The business model, not the technology, usually determines whether it is uneconomic for the incumbent to pursue the disruptor. As we have seen in case of IBM mainframe or Kodak still photography, that were eventually replaced by Personal Computer and Digital Photography, it was inflexible business models were reasons for disruption.
TREND 1 – is essential “Digital Have’s and Digital Have not’s.
Every consumer is a digital customer with unique customer experience preferences
Elsevier collaborates with Libraries in enhancing experience of Researchers
We focus on total solution for the researchers
A traditional research publishing business would serve the researcher in the search and discovery area, but we serve across the whole research workflow from enabling research to doing research and in the end sharing research.
Elsevier collaborates with Libraries in engaging with all stakeholders of the Library – Governments, Funding Bodies, University Management & Researchers.
Together with our library partners, we answer some of they key questions that concerns the Library’s stakeholders
We deliver data platform and signals in form of content, citations, user profiles, social networks that helps our users to
Discover, stay ahead of others and evaluate
Store, manage and publish data and receive credits
Help our users to manage their career by showcasing their work
We know that Elsevier is a large publisher, however I want you to stop and consider one other fact: when it comes to output, we could be bigger. Elsevier actively works to manage it size, and the reason is: quality. The increase in global research has seen the number of submissions we receive increase rapidly – and in order to maintain quality, we have had to work harder to maintain quality.
There is a saying amongst those in the publishing department that the value of ScienceDirect is in what is not published on the platform. Most of the work that a publisher does is unseen – however, this slide makes that work visible: publishers need to attract submissions; inevitably, we can’t accept all submissions for various reasons, and rejections are issued; and the end result, which is seen, is the articles that are published in a given year. Over the course of the past 5 years, Elsevier’s rejection rate has grown faster than submission or publication rates. An increase in rejection rates is indicative of Elsevier’s processes: working harder to attract and filter best in class research for our users in order to ensure the best quality publications.
We do this work to ensure that we produce a high quality product, so that our customers can produce high quality research.
Elsevier plays a crucial role in Quality Control within the global research landscape – and Elsevier uses its 130 years of experience in publishing to find and work with the best quality authors. Elsevier’s quality can be measured against its peers, using metrics such as average author Field Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) and H-Index. The average FWCI and H-Index analysis shown above was done using publication data from between 2010 and 2014: we filtered for authors that have published at least 4 papers over this time period, and counted any author’s papers published with a publisher (so long as the author had at least 25% of their publications with that publisher between 2010 and 2014). When measuring the H-Index and FWCI of those authors, for those papers, against Elsevier’s two most similar publishers in this field: Elsevier scored better in both Average Author FWCI and Average Author H-Index. It is also worth noting that this high level of quality applies against a larger volume of authors. This is a testament to the work that Elsevier does as a publisher: curating and selecting the best authors, so that we can provide our customers with the best research, in order to assist them in producing the best quality graduates and research. Our competency as a publisher is to manage quality across a diversity of disciplines and a high volume of content.
How Impact Factors are calculated: The journal Impact Factor (IF) is an index that measures how often a journal’s articles are cited in other research.This is done by counting the number of citations made during a single year to the articles published in a journal in the previous two years. That figure is then divided by the number of articles published in that particular journal in the same two years. As such, the IF is an indicator of the average rate of citation of the journal’s recent articles.
The results are a part of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) provided by Thomson Reuters and are frequently used to a gauge a journal’s influence relative to other journals in the same field. The new reports measured citations made during 2014 to articles published in 2012 and 2013.
When we take a global view and review all publications from all publishers between 2010 and 2014: certain figures are worth calling out. While Elsevier only accounts for 21% of all global scientific publications, we have a higher percentage of both references and citations. With an average of 24 citations per paper (25% of all global citations); and with Elsevier accounting for 27% of all cited references between 2010-2014, this provides a valuable testimony to the relevance and impact of our content.
The conditions of receiving funding, require a partner that complies with the rapidly evolving conditions and diverse demands of funding bodies – Elsevier has evolved multiple business models to be the best partner in this regard
Problem
The University of Maryland Libraries subscribes to more than 350 databases, 17,000 ejournals and 900,000 ebooks. Each item is tracked by metadata and meticulously entered into the Libraries’ knowledge base (OCLC WorldCat®) when it acquires new resources. However, throughout the year as publishers add and remove resources from their lists, the Libraries may discover a new title outside the direct order process only through user feedback
“The databases are just the tip of the iceberg,” says Carlen M. Ruschoff, the University of Maryland Libraries’ Director of Technical Services. “We are trying to provide metadata for every single title in them. We can’t possibly keep those links up to date manually in a link resolver. We really need the help of the publisher.”
Elsevier has answered this call with a ScienceDirect API that library automation vendors can integrate with their products. OCLC and Ex Libris (SFX® and Alma) have taken advantage of this opportunity to provide libraries with efficient tools for managing their local holdings. The ScienceDirect API includes information about an institution’s entitlements, so librarians do not have to spend time activating individual titles or manually updating after the link has been activated. It’s as simple as flipping a switch!
Disruptive innovation, a term coined by Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School Professor, describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors.