Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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AUGUST 9, 2010

McKinsey Quarterly frequently highlights trends that will ripple down through many aspects of the global business environment. For example, the current issue describes Clouds, big data, and smart assets : Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch. Trend 8: The age of the multisided business model.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 16, 2010

In a pre-webcast discussion with Jay Cross yesterday we tackled how organizations steward informal learning; Jay will ask HCI members to bring a relevant business problem to the webcast and walk us through ways to focus on the demand side (what learners need) to facilitate powerful informal learning. Knowledge is Your Business.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Considering the fast pace and super-connectedness of today’s business environment, is the old static classroom really the best place for achieving modern training objectives? Find out how smart businesses today are reaping the benefits of continuous, peer-to-peer learning and collaboration.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Mind you, many in the audience were one- or two-person businesses, so their answers may not account for much. Who do you suppose is in charge of social media within companies? In the group, 10% lodge it under PR. The remaining 90% consider social media a marketing function.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Informal learning is part of the mix, but so are social business, brain science, systems thinking, and a bunch of other things. It no longer needs an in-your-face site to promote it. These days I focus my energies on helping organizations work smarter. Join me at Internet Time Blog.

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DECEMBER 13, 2009

But businesses are becoming networks. According to his website, www.jaycross.com: “His calling is to help business people improve their performance on the job and satisfaction in life. According to his website, www.jaycross.com: “His calling is to help business people improve their performance on the job and satisfaction in life.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 3, 2009

The world of business is shifting from push to pull. Related: The Big Shift Blog at Harvard Business Publishing. In a delightful post on his Edge Perspectives , John Hagel unpacks what this means. From knowledge stocks to knowledge flows. From knowledge transfer to knowledge creation. From explicit knowledge to tacit knowledge.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 21, 2010

Visual Journalist Eileen Clegg and I site down at Asilomar to talk about visual learning in this five-minute video: It amazes me that most business people are so short-sighted about the power of visual language that they’d rather bore people with the proverbial thousand words than use a picture.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Within business and management studies, the question of the past and its presetvation is both a concern — and also a business opportunity. She’s right that stories are an important way for organizaitons to find and uphold their identities. Want to preserve and protect a corporate culture? Tell and retell stories.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 3, 2009

At business school, I gained a reputation among classmates as “that guy who doodles during case discussions.&#. An item in the current issue of Business Week notes, “Often viewed as a sign of a wandering mind, doodling may actually help us absorb information.&#

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The first story, Speaking the Language of Business , is mine. You may be interested in the first two articles in the latest issue of Inside Learning Technologies. Jane Hart wrote the second story, How to Create a Social Learning Environment. You say you haven’t heard of Inside Learning Technologies ?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Three hundred UK companies took part in a survey that focused on building the business case for eLearning. Over the past three years, the focus has shifted from delivering training to delivering business results. A third do not set targets for eLearning accomplishment; only a quarter apply business metrics.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning. The place to begin is by identifying a business objective that is vital to a corporate sponsor. G et Out of the Training Business , my most recent column for Chief Learning Officer, called for the abolition of corporate training departments. New roles for former trainers.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 25, 2009

To be successful, they must think and act like business people. Business is about making sound decisions. Every business decision is a trade-off. (If. astute business person seeks the most. Preview and Table of Contents. 189 pages, $19.99 hard copy or download , $14.99 This takes more than jargon and metrics.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 27, 2010

The Centre’s Articles and Papers section contains these ten articles I wrote when Internet Time Group was affiliated with Learning Light: Experience and best practices of businesses using Web 2.0 technologies. Jay Cross pushes the envelope again on e-learning. Emergent learning a new view of e-learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Pragmatic and grounded in experience, this is a re-think of how organizational learning can increase profits, spur innovation, and help businesses prosper. In the new business learning, everyone is a teacher, the workplace is our classroom, on-job performance is the measure of success, and learning continues throughout one’s career.

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DECEMBER 29, 2009

Why Business Leaders Should Act More like Artists - HarvardBusiness.org , December 1, 2009. Daniel Sevitt on The 3 Types of Online Video for Business - Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English - , December 7, 2009. The Builders’ Manifesto - HarvardBusiness.org , December 18, 2009. 12 Adoption Strategies for Web 2.0

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

In this segment, I recall the genesis of eLearning a little over ten years ago, the changing nature of business, and the necessity of embracing social media in corporate learning. Six-minute video of the beginning of the closing keynote at Learning Technologies 2009 in London last month. View more presentations from jaycross.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 27, 2010

UMBC’s ISD Now Webinar Series is UMBC’s ISD Graduate Program’s newest online platform to share ideas and information on topics related to business, organizational productivity and workplace learning and performance. UMBC’s ISD Now Webinar Series — Informal Learning: 5 Ways to do More with Less, April 20, 2010. to 2 p.m.

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JUNE 25, 2010

It is sponsored by the Knowledge Management Forum of the Henley Business School, Oxfordshire, England. Its purpose is to help you better manage your knowledge and to stimulate thought and interest in such subjects as Knowledge Management, Learning, Creativity and the effective use of Internet technology.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 14, 2009

The real message–traditional courses are not the best way to link learning with the business or to engage learners. Leveraging social networking, informal learning and e-learning are just a few ways to manage learning/training in the 21st Century. When will we GET it? Panelists: Clark Quinn, Jay Cross, and Harold Jarche.

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MARCH 23, 2009

He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix three decades ago. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. And much more…. Jay is a champion of informal learning, Web 2.0, and systems thinking. and Europe.

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JUNE 12, 2009

On Tuesday I led a session on Business Impact of Learning in the Real World for the Learning & Skills Group in London. The place to begin is by identifying a business objective that is vital to a corporate sponsor. Everything is business is becoming interconnected and this drives ever-faster cycle times.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 27, 2010

At the end of the last century, Sun Microsystems was a high-flier in the workstation business. Time-to-performance is a metric a business executive can understand and believe in. This makes time-to-performance, the amount of time required to begin performing at target levels, a vital metric. Here’s an example.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2011

A Harvard MBA and Princeton undergrad, he has been improving business processes since developing the first business curriculum for the University of Phoenix three decades ago. In some ways I am talking about expanding the training department to locate it with everything the business does. I call it the workscape.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Here at the Novotel, my “business package&# goes off the air every twenty or thirty minutes. I’m in Aachen, about 300 miles from CERN, where Tim Berner-Lee invented the Web. You’d think these folks would have figured out wi-fi.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

The intent of this book to wake people—specifically business people—up to this fact.”. However, the rise of social networking technology and Web 2.0 tools have worked as a force multiplier, greatly enhancing the power of people to acquire knowledge. – Peter Shea, in eLearn Magazine.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 7, 2010

Business needs well-rounded generalists, not people who only study to ace the test. America’s corporations are suffering because many high-school graduates are uneducated. Cramming for standardized tests in math and writing have crowded out subjects like history and art.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 8, 2010

Every business decision is a trade-off. (If Nonetheless, I still hear from people who say it’s unreasonable for me to asset that informal learning is better than its formal cousin. I tire of being put down for something I never said. If there’s no trade-off, it’s a no-brainer.)

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Has Bob Mosher gone into the clothing business?). The first ten photos are from my recent trip to Barcelona. The last three are from Washington, DC; Benton, Arkansas; and San Jose, California. Drawbacks of the Canon S90? Short battery life (buy a spare). Memory card costs extra. If you enjoy taking photographs, beg Santa for one of these.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 30, 2009

The quotes are helping me get my head around the next version of my unbook on the business side of learning. Education is the ability to think clearly, act well in the world of work and to appreciate life. Brigham Young. I am so grateful to have time for reflection. You can get the current version for $14 on Lulu.). Working Smarter.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy by Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel. Online, free , very good reading. The reasons to engage with open source include the following: * Getting high-quality, free software and software design and development help. Making your software ubiquitous through participation and low cost.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

business environment) to work, participants need to be able to establish and maintain their identities through personal profiles, archives of past activity, and the like. Freeform, frictionless, and emergence are properties of an effective learnscape but I don’t think they’re enough. These qualities address connections.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

This morning I took part in a conference call focused on now might we use the precepts of agile programming in general (non-IT) business settings. Hence, I am exploring how well the principles of agile programming might be incorporated into a new framework for instructional design. Agile Software Development.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 29, 2009

The important transitions are in how people interact with one another, networked business structures, instantaneous communication, collaborative intelligence, and the demise of the industrial era. This is earth-shattering stuff, and it doesn’t do it justice to frame it as a mere transition in corporate training.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 13, 2010

In the last half of the 20th century, information work replaced manual labor as the primary creator of value in business. Sustainable organizations gain flexibility by empowering their people to make decisions rather than thinking people are mere cogs in a machines. Brain power supplanted muscle. Conceptual work is more PULL than PUSH.

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