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Curated Insights: The Human Side of Extracting Business Value from Information

CLO Magazine

Advertised job postings have doubled since 2009 according to analysis by Indeed.com, and a 2016 Davos World Economic Forum report lists critical thinking as No. As cognitive systems continue to strip away routine knowledge work, expert critical thinkers will play an increasingly valuable role in driving business actions and decisions.

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Long Live?

Tony Karrer

Informal Learning After his questionable call on levels of instructor-led, classroom training in the future, Saul then tells us… More flawed than the analysis of the numbers is the proposition that formal classroom learning will be replaced by informal learning, which will primarily occur online through blogs and social computing tools.

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

Creating useful, peer-rated FAQs and knowledge bases. We recently toured a corporate headquarters where staying late at work was prized by managers. In knowledge work, overwork leads to stress and a reduction in cognitive acumen. The analysis shows that we’re already spending nearly that much on training.