The rules have changed. Tossing around on a sea of turbulent change, companies that can’t respond to new situations rapidly are sunk. These “strategic inflection points,” as Andy Grove calls these transitional moments, arrive when conditions change and existing businesses do not adapt. The coming of the network age is as big a change as any of us are likely to see. The Information Era has arrived. The Machine Age is over.

UN and Google Create Climate Change Mapping Resources , August 4, 2009 Tags: chang Informal Learning takes place in the context of work and life. Learnscaping — taking a systems view of learning in an organization — necessarily addresses a broad array of topics and disciplines. Hence, the articles and posts from Informal Learning Flow aren’t confined to what you’ll find in training magazines and learning

If you’re looking for a way to weather the economic downturn, the first thing you need to do is realize that it’s a permanent climate change, not a passing storm. Nonetheless, it’s time to get ready for massive change. Survivors will develop and present agendas for change while things are in flux. Jay’s column on Effectiveness, CLO magazine , February 2009 The dawn of a new age

and Change Present Challenges to Many Learning Executives Jay spoke with Learning Executives Briefing about informal learning and the changing role of the CLO. is changing the nature of business and enabling incredibly powerful connections. That is changing the whole show. Web 2.0 By Rex Davenport

It’s time for change. Tags: chang When I signed up for Spaces for Interaction: An Online Conversation about Improving the Traditional Conference , I didn’t appreciate how timely the topic would become. Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. I’ve learned a whale of a lot

Much of this discussion was about how to get change to happen, with (I think) a very practical and realistic acknowledgment of the barriers to change. The idea of iterative change came up several times. Where traditional project and change management follows a linear process, what may be more effective for emerging technology is to do lots of little projects, see how they go, and adjust as needed. Recursive flower These are my liveblogged notes from this morning’s live session for CCK08 .

You can, however, change their roles. Tags: working_smarter chang Get Out of the Training Business , my last column for Chief Learning Officer, called for the abolition of  corporate training departments. Help me write the next installment. Some instructors and instructional designers now see me as a job threat.

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. Tags: social working_smarter chang Six-minute video of the beginning of the closing keynote at Learning Technologies 2009 in London last month. Here are the slides from the presentation:

I've been dipping into The art of changing the brain by James E Zull (Stylus, 2002) for some time now. However, if you just want to know what the main recommendations are, then here's a summary of the notes I took: Main premise: "Learning is change. It is change in ourselves because it is change in the brain. The subtitle of the book, 'Enriching the practice of teaching by exploring the biology of learning,' pretty well sums it up - this is neuroscience for teachers, written by a Professor of Biology and Director of the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education at Case Western Reserve University. If you want to explore and validate the neuroscience, then you'll have to read the book I'm afraid.

It certainly again raises the question of our changing role in a DIY world. George Siemens recent post - Formal and informal...control control vs foster discusses the move from mainstream, controlled information to consumer generated information. His examples include: Mainstream media -> YouTube Mainstream press -> Blogs Microsoft Office -> Office 2.0 It's easy for us to look at this and think about it as "those guys" being disrupted.