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## Let's start at 12:10PM

- No **Week 12** folder: we are done!
- Final **Technical Exercise** teaser available
- Recorded session to be made available on YouTube (unlisted)

#### In case of connection dropoff

- Immediate announcement on shared Slack using mobile data
- Leave and revisit the session recording later
- Stick around in the chat room if it allows

#### Formal cancellation if attempts fail in the next 10 minutes

- Solitary session recording for reference

#### **Bad audio due to slow Internet connection?**

- Let me know immediately via chat

#### View online at https://ckportfolio.com/slides/pc8005-w12

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## Let's get started ...

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## The Virtual Organization

#### PC 8005 - School of Professional Communication - Week 12

https://ckportfolio.com/slides/pc8005-w12

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### Assignment #3

#### Empathize, identify, prototype, and ... sell

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### Upcoming milestones

- **December 13**: Exercise #5: Web Automation
- **December 20**: Assignment #3 - Product Presentation

#### Imminent feedback

- Research Reading Group, Sets #5 and #6
- Assignment #2: Interactive Wireframe

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### Web automation

#### macOS Automator meets Google Chrome

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## Any questions?

Moving onto the this week's content ...

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## Today's agenda

- **Shift in retail commerce**
- Challenges and opportunities in e-learning
- Onshoring production

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### Lockdown

#### First implemented in March 2020

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### Retail business

#### Panic buying and in-store restrictions

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### Bars and restaurants

#### Overstock and in-person dining restrictions

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### Fairs and exhibition

#### Complete shutdown with little to no alternatives

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### "Digital transformation"

#### Provincial and municipal efforts for retailer education

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### Forced to adapt

#### Shift in consumer demand

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### Platform expenses

#### Delivery, transaction, and other costs

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### Platform overdependence

#### Recurring fees and add ons

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### Subscription fatigue

#### Existing products going digital

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### Emerging merchants

#### Entryway for young, emerging entrepreneurs

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### Experience over goods

#### Sense of community being eroded

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### Digital literacy

#### Embrace of tech sector

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### Middleman scrutiny

#### Legislators pressuring tech companies

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### Business model challenges

#### Concept of "shop local"

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### Real estate reexamined

#### Commercial and office space lease being pressured

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## Today's agenda

- Shift in retail commerce
- **Challenges and opportunities in e-learning**
- Onshoring production

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### University shutdown

#### Class of 2020 seriously disrupted

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### Forced shift to remote

#### Forced to use conference tool for education

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### Enrollment drops

#### Uncertain future, living situation, and visa issues

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### Skepticism from all fronts

#### Faculty, students, and employers

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### Permanent changes to campus

#### Digital open house; fully remote until September 2021

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### Platform deficiencies

#### Bandwidth, multimedia, and delivery issues

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### Content incompatibilities

#### Courses that require physical interaction

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### Faculty resistance

#### Intellectual property, stipend requirements

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### Student skepticism

#### Especially for junior students

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### Job market shifts

#### K-shaped recovery is real

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### "Learn to code" resurgence

#### Alternative education and upskilling

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### Young freelancers

#### Much more proactive in search and demand

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### Remote work for disabled persons

#### Great equalizer for disabled workforce

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### Digitizing expertise

#### Virtual reality, personalized experience, interactive

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### Market disruption

#### Job, education, and government response

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## Today's agenda

- Shift in retail commerce
- Challenges and opportunities in e-learning
- **Onshoring production**

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### Mask shortage

#### Every social media platform becomes a PPE marketplace

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### Supply chain problem

#### Canana significantly reduces manufacturing sector since 2010

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### Dropshipping

#### Quickly proving less desirable as tech becomes cheaper

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### Digital outsourcing

#### IT projects done cheaper (and more clumsily)

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### Barriers for sustainability

#### Geopolitical tension, rising costs, and communication issues

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### IT resurgence in Canada

#### Silicon Valley moves to Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal

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### Call for manufacturing resurgence

#### Ketchup, cars, and masks

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### Physical products, elevated by tech

#### Bringing tech to more tangible industries

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### Supply chain transparency

#### Blockchain and other provenance technology

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### Bridge between STEM and crafting

#### Woodworking class digitalized

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### Isolationist by necessity

#### Self-serve approach to subsistence and innovation

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### Rise of Canadian brands

#### Feel-good acknowledgment as a bonus

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## Takeaways

- Huge damages to retail and opportunities to rewrite rules
- Remote learning remains clunky but brings new opportunities
- Opportunities for onshoring forced upon us, and we are ready

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### Tasks for upcoming weeks

#### Listed in order of priority

- Production work for Assignment #3
- Final technical exercise

#### More details available on D2L

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### Things to expect over the next weeks

- Email announcements
- Assignment and milestone reminders
- Adhoc troubleshooting

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### Course archive

https://blog.ckportfolio.com/archive/the-virtual-organization

#### Bookmark for future reference

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## The Virtual Organization

#### PC 8005 - School of Professional Communication - Week 12

https://ckportfolio.com/slides/pc8005-w12