Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Business impact. However, it sounds like it’s still efficiency, just doing that for things the business thinks are important. And business impact is obviously good, as is employee performance data. Presumably positive business impact, and employee performance improving. Learner satisfaction with training.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It never flew, however, as we didn’t partner it with a viable business model. They wanted to develop once and populate a variety of business products. The result was technically sophisticated, educationally sound, and engaging both visually and in prose. Which was reflective of the times. This also ended sadly.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Which is related to another problem, business school curricula. I was surprised, and dismayed, to find that a prominent business school has personality instruments as part of it’s curricula! It’s appealing, but wrong. Not that it isn’t also prevalent amongst K12 teachers as well.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 22, 2019

In a couple of articles, the notion that we should be measuring our impact on the business is called out. So, in the original article , by my colleague Will Thalheimer, he calls the claim that we should focus on business impact ‘dangerous’! It seems to ignore the value of business metrics all together.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Thus, we can exaggerate: let’s not work on just a patient, but the rebel leader’s daughter, or not just a business deal, but the one that will save the company! And, if we realize business is a culture, we find some universals we can leverage. Finally, we can talk about humor. Finally, we can talk about humor.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 30, 2020

So, one question raised is why ask practitioners to change, why aren’t we challenging the businesses? There’s no provision to not say things that are contrary to their business interests. So, are my publisher activities part of the business end, or the education end? I sympathize!

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I talk about ‘business significance’ can be as useful as statistical significance.) Yes, it wasn’t a research article on it’s own, but…I think misleading folks isn’t justified in any article (unless it’s illustrative and you then correct the situation).

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Clark Quinn

JULY 15, 2020

So we’re buzzword compliant, because we know our business depends on your business, and you depend on matching the latest marketing to justify the expenditure. No more boring drill-and-kill, it’s all packaged up in themes like racing, circuses and more, so you are earning points that aren’t confounded by any relation to the material.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Coupled with this is a lack of business awareness in our own practices. And we’re reluctant to talk to the stakeholders in the business. Get smart about learning science, about business, and about what technology can (and can’t) do. We measure the wrong things, e.g. efficiency – such as cost/seat/hour.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2021

Maybe reading and writing, but beyond that, what did you learn about business, leadership, etc? If they’re not reporting on measurable changes in the improvement of business metrics, like sales, customer service, operations,e tc, they’re not demonstrating their worth. And how did you learn those things?

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The old adage applies: you make more money giving it away; it’s a better business card! You may be asked to write more. On the other hand, you’re unlikely to get rich from your book. Do try to get a good editor. In the publishing world, there are usually several.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The premise comes from business. I’ve attributed that to a legacy from previous eras. Yet, I realize that there may be another legacy, a cognitive one. Here I’ll suggest we need to move beyond Industrial Age thinking. We transitioned from a largely agricultural economy to a manufacturing economy, of goods and services.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Offerings in computer science, business, and others for instance, receive review and then can receive approval by bodies that represent the particular field. This creates a process support that should ensure quality, yet also the ability to apply this to institutions with a wide variety of offerings.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

5 minutes” or “we identified the problem and were able to reduce the errors in manufacturing back to our y/100 baseline” These may even include “saving us $z” To do this, of course, means you’re actually addressing key business impact drivers. Yes, you have to start working with business partners.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 27, 2022

After two too-quiet years (2020 and 2021), the year has been joyously busy. So here’s some thoughts and wishes for happy holidays and the new year. First, it’s been a really good year, overall. Almost too, but that beats the alternative!

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

New things are afoot business wise, and some personal changes are underway as well. It’s an interesting time for Quinnovation. All end up being natural and/or for the good, but…seldom are things as easy as you’d hope and expect. So here are some reflections on coping with change.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

design thinking ), and the other is business. For those who haven’t had experience in business, however, an overall understanding of business is key. For those who haven’t had experience in business, however, an overall understanding of business is key. I have two answers: one is design (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 13, 2023

You also need to know the basics of business: planning, budgeting, strategy, also things like supply/demand, and change management in particular (interventions are org changes, and need to be treated as same). Which incorporates, I suppose, time management similarly, effectively using calendaring, ‘todo’ lists, etc.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Many stem from maintaining approaches that are carryovers from industrial age business. There are a lot of myths about what works. This includes learning myths , but also bad HR practices. Instead, we should be leveraging our knowledge of thinking to be strategic. L&D can be critically contributing to organizational success!

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 11, 2022

Yes, we have to get out of our comfort zone, start working with other business units, and most importantly know learning. Orgs need to innovate, and facilitating the best innovation is going to be a critical role. Why not L&D? We should anyway! The infrastructure necessary is what I call the performance ecosystem.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was way ahead of the times in a business sense; people weren’t paying for online learning. Many years ago, I led the learning design of an online course on speaking to the media. Still, there were some clever design factors in it. I’ve lifted one to new purposes, but also have a thought about how it could be improved.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2018

And, as I just ordered new business cards, I put Intellectricity as the tagline instead of “Learning & Performance Strategy” or other permutations with Technology and such in the title. And maybe some business interest?) Many years ago, I met a guy who worked for Apple.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

They might hire a talk, but what’s the business model? Really, what I am is a learning science translator, not a myths debunker. Practically, that’s because there’s essentially no money in being a myths debunker. Are you going to hire me to come in and debunk your myths? Er, that’d be no. But there’s a principled reason, too. .

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Clark Quinn

MAY 18, 2017

The model’s premise is that disruption requires two major things: a technology enabler and a business model innovation. It can’t just be a new technology in an existing business model, as that’s merely the traditional competitive innovation. Even if you’re a player, you have to liberate resources to start anew.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 26, 2022

A frequent occurrence is a business unit asking for a course. The correlation between people’s evaluation of the learning and the actual impact is essentially zero. At least for novices. You need more rigorous criteria, and then test to achieve. A request for a course is a sufficient rationale to make one.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 21, 2020

The overall visualization gives me a place, like a business canvas, to drop stuff on and rearrange. In short, the ‘diagram’ has become a visual place to store bits and pieces of different diagrams, representations, mindmap, prose, or more. As well as outlining elsewhere.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 4, 2023

We generally don’t want to educate them about our business, yet we need more focused guidance. For instance, with ‘clients’ (internal or external), giving us their desired outcomes that are vague and unfocused. Particularly when it comes to designing meaningful practice. How, then, do we get from platitudes to pragmatics?

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 29, 2019

For example, look at the success of teaching ethics separately from other business classes…let’s move on. I suppose by putting those decisions in situations where there are implications not just for the business but for society. And there’s plenty of lip service to this, but little impact.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2020

Andrew is determined that learning and development should be an integral part of business activity. The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award for 2020 is presented to Andrew Jacobs. He is currently employed in a challenging position inside the UK government.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 27, 2021

Yet we do see businesses with ratings from 3 to 5, so clearly there are positive reviews (I’ve done both). What’s problematic, to me, is why people wouldn’t participate. For example, my kids. For one, there’s a belief that people only write negative reviews.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2017

Marcia co-organized and co-hosted the Creating a Learning Culture conference at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, leading to a book of the same title. When we assemble all that is going on at the edges of culture, technology, and (dare I say) business, we find a wildly hopeful view of the future.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 28, 2014

He numbered his steps so that step 1 was seeing what learners thought, 2 was that learners could demonstrate a change, 3 was that the change was showing up in the workplace post intervention, and 4 was it impacting business measures. This actually made a lot of sense. There were two major problems, however.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It’s already happening across the business in pretty much every other area. Look, this has seemed to be something not all folks seem to be able to get their mind around. And, I hope that’s not true, that it’s learnable. Because we have to come to grips with this.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 4, 2017

I was reading about Digital Business Platforms, which is a move away from siloed IT systems to create a unified environment. The premise is that it’s now possible to migrate from separate business systems and databases, and converge that data into a unified platform. Which, naturally, seems like a sensible thing to do.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 3, 2022

It’s a cost center, not a driver of business success. Indeed, except that these ‘courses’ won’t have any impact! One other factor is that our stakeholders also don’t know nor care. They know they need to invest in learning, so they do. No one is (yet) calling us on the carpet to justify our success.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

You’ll see all the business roles filled. It’s business, and with business folks in charge (and shareholders to assuage), they’ll do what people want. Yet people who don’t know better might be enthused. And I get it. Unfortunately, as an industry, we’re not informed consumers.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 28, 2014

The gist is that there are a number of changes L&D is not accommodating: changes in how business should be run, changes in understanding how we think and perform, and even our understanding of learning has advanced (at least beyond the point that most of our corporate approaches seem to recognize). To move forward, we need to do more.

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