{"id":1629,"date":"2019-01-18T22:11:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T03:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:51","slug":"18365-diffusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/18365-diffusion\/","title":{"rendered":"18:365 | Diffusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the course I&#8217;m teaching,\u00a0one of the optional texts students can\u00a0choose is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Diffusion-Innovations-5th-Everett-Rogers\/dp\/0743222091\/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=Rogers%2C+E.+%282004%29+%22Diffusion+of+innovations%22&amp;qid=1547866813&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0\">Rogers (2004) &#8220;Diffusion of innovations&#8221;<\/a>. I first read this book in my master&#8217;s program at Indiana University (IU), and it put into words (and importantly &#8230; through research) what I&#8217;d experienced countless times in my professional life. Time, users\/stakeholders, competing priorities, etc. all impact the diffusion and adoption of innovations.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers&#8217; work was so much a part of the program at IU that faculty and students created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~simed\/diffusion\/\">simulation\/game around the themes<\/a>. Poke around to see how they&#8217;ve converted Rogers research into this simulation\/game. I&#8217;ve played it several times over the years and used it in classes. If memory serves, I think I had to write a paper about how my experience in the game changed based on making different implementation decisions along the way.\u00a0It&#8217;s eye-opening to realize that there are common themes\/patterns associated with the diffusion of innovation that emerge when we analyze these situations as we will be doing throughout this course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the course I&#8217;m teaching,\u00a0one of the optional texts students can\u00a0choose is Rogers (2004) &#8220;Diffusion of innovations&#8221;. I first read this book in my master&#8217;s program at Indiana University (IU), and it put into words (and importantly &#8230; through research) what I&#8217;d experienced countless times in my professional life. Time, users\/stakeholders, competing priorities, etc. all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}