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Sun, Elite, and the future

Jay Cross

At the CLO Symposium, Karie Willyerd showed samples of how Sun Microsystems is preparing to greet the workforce of 2020. Sun is constructing a platform that makes the nuggets available; you can mine for them however you choose. Sun and ILA are developing what I call learnscapes. This is a group that learns from nano-nuggets.

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Our digital future 4: Pervasive computing

Learning with e's

Now, for those who are unfamiliar with the Reform Symposium, let me explain: It's a 72 hour live web based symposium that follows the sun. Some museums already use RFID technology to tag and GPS locate valuable exhibits for security purposes and the technology has proved quite effective. The system is context aware.

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Free L&D webinars for December 2019

Limestone Learning

Product Manager, Instructure, to discover how effective talent development comes to life by connecting career planning, enabling meaningful connections, facilitating continuous performance management, and bringing all your learning programs into one cohesive experience. Some topics covered will be: Building a community of practice.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

Clocks measure working hours instead of the sun. Railroads and communications links span the globe. Mayo discovered the Hawthorne Effect, opening the study of motivation. From the Cynefin perspective best practices are only suitable for simple environments and good practices are inadequate in responding to constant change.

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

Jenna Papakalos: Communities of practice belong to training. Bob MacKie: There is also learning using community of practice outside the organization e.g. purchasing agents, chefs etc. Judy Muller: Intuit.great idea to implement active practice of it's core "customer focus". Jenna Papakalos: Why is that?

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Re-imagining the Book

Jay Cross

From there, the book can delve into ways to do that, for example Dare2Share, the SUN Learning Exchange, accessing just-in-time tips via Twitter, mobile podcasts, Cisco’s communities of practice, and so forth. I realized that my new book needs to start with the end-state, e.g. higher sales. Then on to the next topic.

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Not Your Father’s ROI

Jay Cross

But like Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles, old-school ROI’s day in the sun is waning. The more powerful the executive, the more likely he or she is involved in effectiveness — doing the right things rather than doing things right. Make a hypothesis of cause and effect. It’s difficult for them to give up models they understand well.

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