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Motor City’s resourceful learning leader

CLO Magazine

Detroit was one of the hardest hit American cities during the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Ware was hired as chief learning officer for the City of Detroit in 2014. It’s never about the technology,” said Iris Ware, CLO of the City of Detroit. But the city is recovering — and Iris Ware is helping to make it happen.

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CLOs Need and Want External Help

CLO Magazine

Overall, enterprises that outsource learning are satisfied with outsourcing and expect to maintain or increase spending levels for 2014. In 2007, 58 percent of enterprises outsourced some portion of their learning process. By 2010, 45 percent of CLOs reported the same.

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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

Keith Sawyer’s 2007 book, “Group Genius,” documents how ideas combine in different ways to create new ones. Charles Jennings, executive director of the Royal Military College at Duntroon, Australia, recalls that when serving as the CLO for Thomson Reuters, he instituted a budget for innovation. Document the results, and scale.

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A Vital View on Learning

CLO Magazine

While moving up the ranks at McCain, she attended the CLO executive doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she first met Steier in 2007. “We McNevin joined the program to advance her career as a global CLO while Steier wanted to understand how to create a learning organization.

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Cultivating capability with Walmart’s Brandon Carson

CLO Magazine

In 2007, Sun Microsystems hired Carson and eventually put him in charge of creating one of the first online social learning experiences and the game-based Sun Open Learning Center for system administrators. Then in 2014, moving to retail at Home Depot presented Carson with an opportunity to transform L&D for frontline workers.

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Learning on the Line

CLO Magazine

When Randall Stephenson became CEO and chairman of AT&T in 2007, he brought with him a focus to align the workforce around a common culture, strategy and priorities. AT&T invested $2 million to help launch the program, and this spring more than 4,000 students were enrolled in the program — a tenfold increase since its 2014 start.

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5 Case Studies that Prove Learning Games Work

Growth Engineering

2007; Dinov, Sanchez and Christou 2008; Gao and Lehman 2003; Zhang 2005. Savvis’ CLO, Jim Sokolowski was understandably delighted: ”Getting 80% completion on a comprehensive sales learning intervention is no small accomplishment, since training time takes away from their time selling. 11% higher declarative knowledge. Cavus et al.