Clark Quinn

JULY 13, 2018

I read an article calling for organizational psychology and the things these folks do for companies. And so I’ve been pushing the idea of doing a cognitive analysis of organizations, and incorporating new understandings of cognition in how we run our companies, and more. Am I missing the forest for the trees?

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In appropriate ways; I’m reminded how the freight business got upended when companies thought they were in the train business and not the transportation business.) That includes a focus on having performers prepared up front and developed over time. Of course, this carries down to the individual level.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 22, 2014

I was in a recent conversation about a company facing strong growth and worried about the impact on culture. Companies with a positive culture, a valuable offering, and a good business model are liable to face growth issues, and maintaining or starting a good culture becomes a critical issue to maintaining the organization’s success.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Pilot) and even a meta-language for developing human-computer learning interactions. Robot Odyssey and SnooperTroops), though a few companies arose to do this systematically. Companies emerged to do them at scale, but things were changing rather fast. However, the usage was small. People handbuilt things like games (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 26, 2012

I’ve earlier talked about the importance of failure in learning, and now it’s revealed that Apple’s leadership development program plays that up in a big way. Companies that can’t learn from mistakes, their own and others’, are doomed to repeat them. There are risks in sharing, and rewards.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Having built and sold an elearning company, he’s now free to pursue what he believes and it’s currently in the power of technology to teach us. And you should know a bit of the history of the rise of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, the problems with developing expert models, and current approaches like Knewton and Smart Sparrow.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2017

As a Senior Manager at Microsoft, she developed new training practices and wrote an accessible white paper on the deeper aspects of learning design. Marcia’s a recognized leader, writing for Fast Company, and keynoting conferences around the world. She subsequently was the Information Futurist at PeopleSoft.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I remember a particular company that produced rigorous learning that you’d rather tear your eyes out than actually consume. Learners go from not having a clue to having a basic ability to do and how to continue to develop. You either get something flashy but empty, or something worthwhile but dreary dull. What is LXD strategy

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I had to do the TRS-80 Model I before I got to work on an Apple ][, but I finally bought a ][e, and sold it to my company shortly thereafter as I headed off to graduate school. And I think that while Jobs was at times dictatorial, as has come out, I think he did it through selling a vision inside the company as well as outside.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The reflection was that the mechanisms we were suggesting then, to make companies more resilient, were actually strategies making companies more flexible and adaptive. develop ‘wise’ information technology: use technology more strategically to complement our capabilities.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 28, 2015

It is now an indisputable business reality: companies must become more nimble and agile. Accelerating the development of these capabilities means doing things different and new. It means understanding, valuing, and explicitly developing the ability of people to learn alone and together.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 14, 2011

How do you think gaming will change the landscape for people in charge of recruiting, developing and retaining top talent? First, a game can both help individuals understand what a particular company is about (e.g. Gaming is an optimized performance environment, with all that entails.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 19, 2010

Now, I understand that Apple’s rabidly focused on the customer experience ( I like the usability), and limiting development to content is a way to essentially guarantee a vibrant experience. I came to this thought from thinking about how companies should want to go beyond media to the next level. but others won’t.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Here, Wikipedia defines it as an offshoot of org development, with a focus on information processing. The final candidate is organizational development. Caring enough to develop them in ways that are supportive, not punitive, and not just your goals but theirs’ too, retains their interest and commitment.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

We knew they were were going to be developing scenarios, so the key was the develop the skills of these two. In another instance, a company was moving to a ‘customer experience’ focus, and wanted to workshop what this meant for the training function. Learning Strategy.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Using a mobile device to make us more effective, either in the moment or developing us over time. My company doesn’t create solutions so much as helping people come up with the strategies to do it. What important development trends do you see coming down the pike in mobile learning? Would you consider a laptop a Mobile Device?

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It appears several LMS companies are now calling themselves LXPs. I think a portal is a necessary component, and the LXPs have many performance & development advantages for over generic portal tools. And of course exaggerated claims about who does what. So I laud their existence, but I question their branding.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 23, 2013

Development -> Mentoring. Rather than developing people through programs, increasingly people are looking for mentoring. Programmed development is like taking the bus, when mentoring is like having a chauffeur. People are now going ‘mobile first’, as are companies like Google. Desktop -> Mobile.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 2, 2011

Increasingly, I’m seeing publishers taking a similar view , and as new content formats get developed and delivered (e.g. While this includes coupling the disparate systems into a coherent workbench for individuals, it also includes developing content into a model that accounts for different input sources, output needs, and governance.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 21, 2014

As context, I was programming for the educational computer game company, DesignWare. This year is the 30th anniversary of the Macintosh, and my newspaper asked for memories. I’ll point them to this post ;). I told them to contact my CEO, and as a reward I got to do the first joint title, FaceMaker.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

What’s a company to do? In short, one of the primary tools for organizational improvement is fundamentally broken. We’re using industrial age tools in an information age.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 24, 2013

The world we’re in is changing faster: we’re getting more data, companies can move faster, and customers expect more. And that made sense is a world where couldn’t do on the job scrutiny, and things were more predictable. We’re not in that world anymore.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Mobile subscriptions in the developed world are flattening out, not from lack of interest, but from saturation. And when a small company like Google says that they’re designing for mobile first and the desktop is an afterthought, it is safe to say mobile is on the move. The indicators are clear: the world is going mobile.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 30, 2015

The idea is fairly straightforward: people want work that actually does something important, they want to be free to pursue that work, and they want to be developed in their ability to accomplish that work. And I think this is a good list. I think work has to be meaningful (just as I argue learning has to be meaningful).

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 27, 2014

You should be developing some extra content at development time for streaming out over time, but breaking up your course so that the hour of seat time is 30 or 40 mins up front, and then 20 or 30 mins of followup spread out over days and with repeated practice will make learning stick way more than not.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 7, 2013

An increasing number of organisations, independent of size, nature or location, will acknowledge that their traditional training and development models and processes are failing to live up to the expectations of their leaders and workforce in a dynamic and global marketplace. You’ll see overlap but also unique perspectives: Charles Jennings.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 5, 2012

Here’s a way that L&D groups can partner with IT and add real value via a synergy that benefits the company. How about ensuring the availability of tools like blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, discussion forums, media file creating/sharing, and profiles, and helping communities learn to use them?

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2010

Still, there were some interesting developments. A couple of companies were there who I talked about last time, including Blue Kiwi (who I didn’t visit this time) and Vignette (who I did visit, unintentionally). Last October I toured the expo associated with O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Somehow, it didn’t feel as vibrant.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 14, 2011

In this situation, the students had been given a project by a major international firm to develop recommendations for their social business. The faculty told me afterward that many of these students had worked only in their home company prior to this, but after this diverse experience, they were truly globally-ready.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 17, 2011

I think the reason mobile is becoming ‘hot’ is that the devices are converging and offering powerful capabilities in a small factor, and that mobile devices are now ubiquitous (at least in the developed world, and are at surprising levels in the developing world. We have workable app stores and easy usage.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 21, 2017

Even, to be honest, finding the company’s biggest barriers, and addressing them, isn’t a sufficient response. And they can be instituted in ways that address problems yet also develop your ability. And just finding what people need and doing it is a bit reactive, it seems to me, regardless.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 23, 2015

He’s developed even a little job aid (aka the ‘3 Questions’ card). In fact, a lovely story I heard once was from a small company that rang a bell in the middle of the office, not when the mistake was made, but when the lesson was learned. Describe some of your recent challenges and successes.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 22, 2013

And when you are developing or sourcing support, realize that less is more. Facilitation of dialog, and skills, will make this solution the most powerful one in a company that intends to thrive. If things are changing too fast, or the situation’s unique, there are better options.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 29, 2015

I remember an engagement with a Scandinavian oil company that I was brought in on, where they started out establishing teams for new projects that crossed geographies (and, implicitly, cultures), scaffolded them using collaboration and communication tools, and then released them back to other projects.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 31, 2008

One request was for eLearning development providers from fairly large 5,000+ employees based in the US. They are fairly new to eLearning design and development. Within a few hours of each other, I received two requests for referral to service providers. We've looked at a few eLearning vendors and haven't been thrilled.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

He’s definitely one that you would call ‘wicked’ smart, having built several companies and now having sold one, he’s only hanging around doing cutting edge information science because he wants to. This is important in learning experience design as well. I have talked before about the potential of web 3.0,

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 5, 2010

While I don’t know that these technologies will actually cross over (I’m notoriously optimistic), they’re pretty much ready to be: Social I’ve mentioned plenty before, and everyone and their brother is either adding social learning capabilities to their suites, or creating a social learning tool company.

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