Education Reform Opportunities for Open Source
In order to promote a product, even Open Source products, you need to have a plan.
You write that plan by asking questions, and recording your answers.
Here is a list of questions and concepts to think about as you market Open Source products:
- Discover the hidden opportunity in every situation.
- Engineer success into every innovation and improvement project.
- Build projects with many ideas, lots of leeway and lots of contingency plans.
- Adequately fund projects, and allow 10% to 20% (preferably 20% extra for unexpected challenges, and unplanned opportunities).
- Understand that what you are doing is unique, just as the model program that you are imitating or copying was unique.
- The more you can improve teaching or learning, the greater the odds that executive decision-makers will continue to support this project.
- Connect with positive thinking, creative, can-do people for support in planning and management.
- Always look for ways to improve, and for ways to measure the improvement.
- Structure your proposals and offers so that all risk is taken away from the decision-maker. Make it easy for decision-makers to say, “Yes,” to your proposal.
