Jay Cross

AUGUST 29, 2014

I created my first company with no thought for building a business, per se, but merely as a way to preserve an educational innovation from being destroyed by a small-minded bureaucracy. My involvement was to develop John’s first business degree program during those indeed hostile times. Commission only.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2012

Royal Dutch Shell, the fifth largest company in the world and a long-term player (Shell’s more than a hundred years old), has been learning from scenarios for forty years. Many old-school companies think this is where they live. The customers are creating the data, this set-up can make companies more agile in responding to change.

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Social Networks Compliance Training Exercise Predictions 51

Jay Cross

APRIL 30, 2011

My work helping clients work smarter generally involves informal learning, collaboration, knowledge-sharing, organization development, and nurturing learning ecosystems. Jack Welch has said, “Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.&# It’s all just working smarter.

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Toys Journal Theory Enterprise 65

Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

You will need to become a champion for the new approach to developing talent in the organization. You must convince your sponsor that managers and supervisors are the linchpin to developing new talent. Without them, the company could find itself with nobody on the bench to take on future challenges. The new management .

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2012

cers neglect experienced employees, but these are the very people who make money for the company. They have set up social networks for alumni and help them keep up with new developments. As other companies realize the potential of learning as a marketing tool, we’re going to see a lot more programs like this. Raise their pro?ciency

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Collaborative Learning Collaboration Compliance Training Social Networks 61

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

A landmark study by ASTD and IBM interviewed CLOs and CxOs at 26 leading companies across 11 industries (see The C-level and the Value of Learning , T+D magazine, October 2005). C-level officers want their CLO to build the foundation for transforming the company not just to get people up to speed on today’s needs.

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Scanning CLO IBM ASTD 68

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Working smarter draws ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 17, 2010

In 1955, Bell Telephone was concerned about leadership development: “A well-trained man knows how to answer questions, they reasoned; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.” Today’s companies are grappling with the same issues Bell faced a half century ago. I don’t think I will ever be that straw again.”.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2013

” Sir John Wolfe-Barry, at a stockholders meeting of the Western Telegraph Company (1907). mails to sell stock to the public in the Radio Telephone Company, “a worthless enterprise.” ” A committee of the British Parliament in 1878 reporting on Thomas Edison’s ideas for developing an incandescent lamp. .

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 25, 2015

64% formal education course55% internal company documents. The Towards Maturity Benchmark is the only free, independent and confidential formal benchmark available to learning and development professionals. 51% like to learn just for personal development. 91% team collaboration. 81% manager support. 73% web search. 50% mobile.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Managers and professionals do daily battle with rigid systems that don’t flex with the times, strain under mountains of trivia, and rely on obsolete practices that serve neither the customer or the company. It wouldn’t feel right selling a product to a company that is not going to get much in return beyond a brief moment of feeling hip.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2011

“It is argued that the transfer of knowledge acquired in formal training to daily working practice can be problematic, and companies may consider that training offers are not always relevant to their specific business needs and work organisation.&# I have to wonder if the authors of this report ever worked for real companies.

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Cornerstone Policies Upgrade Learning 59

Jay Cross

JUNE 13, 2012

Focus on a project for your company that delivers $100,000+ in benefits. Develop and sell your implementation plan. Hands-on experiential learning. Limit of nine participants. Identify high-impact opportunities. Review cases and examples of successful implementations. Benchmark your organization against peers.

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Informal Learning Informal Communities of Practice Learning 66

Jay Cross

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. Charles Jennings. Clark Quinn.

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Internet Predictions Confluence Performance Support 63

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 12, 2009

These “pre-hires” can become familiar with the company before signing on. Furthermore, a company that doesn’t tap its community elders as coaches, mentors and guides is missing an important trick. That means improving the brainpower of everyone who works for the company — not just those who receive paychecks.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

A master craftsman makes sure the people she’s developing work and learn from a wide group of people. If you want to explore putting this philosophy in place at your company, let’s chat on the phone. Another source of inspiration is Heather Rutherford , founder of Blended , an organizational learning solutions company.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Forum Performance Support 56

Jay Cross

MAY 1, 2014

THE SMART WORK COMPANY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2014. Notes from: MOOCs for Development STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014. What Learning & Development can learn from Mad Men DAWN OF LEARNING | FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014. Move the hierarchy to the rear HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 29, 2013

5" "Finding new and more powerful ways to develop talent is not only an attractive opportunity to create value, but is also becoming an imperative. For example, the skills that graduates acquire during four years of college have an expected shelf life of only five years.5" " See on dupress.com. Just Jay'

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Jay Cross

JULY 12, 2011

We’d end up enjoying one another’s company. Companies that don’t abandon the insular industrial mindset are not long for this world. developing new products and services. Change or Die. I’ve struggled to articulate what this new world will look like. I see this situation in black and white: change or die.

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Leadership Social Networks Network Knowing Doing Gap 63

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

The Smart Work Company. Working smarter draws upon design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 Martijn Linssen. Nancy White. Nine Shift. Ross Dawson. Social Media for Working & Learning. Steve Denning.

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Content Xyleme 46

Jay Cross

JULY 13, 2010

If you add up the different phases of training that SOF candidates must go through, including specialized courses (such as high-altitude free-fall parachuting) and advanced training in their units, it may take two or three years at minimum to produce a fully developed SOF operator. Only the best of the best complete the rigorous training.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Only when all three learning components are implemented together will a learning and development department see superior results. Working through managers instead of through courses is a radical shift for learning and development. . Then we work with them to develop strategies and plans for transformation and improvement.

Blended Learning 44

Blended Learning Performance Support Coaching Internet 44

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

But the American Jay Cross, researcher and executive of Internet Time Alliance, tells companies that such activity is directed only to those just beginning their careers. As the informal knowledge could develop business? Interview with Jay Cross. ? Workshops are considered a great opportunity to train teams.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Our theme was “Game-Changing Learning: Development for the New Normal.” Some of us speculated that perhaps the acquisition came about to shut up Element K, whose attack ads were irritating Skillsoft mightily: At a lunch sponsored by Knowledge Advisors, David Vance gave an overview of Talent Development Reporting Principles.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 22, 2015

Provide feeds for what’s going on in the team, the department, the company, the industry, and technical disciplines. The list appears in ASTD Handbook: The Definitive Reference for Training & Development , 2nd edition. People confuse learning with school. Build lessons on learning how to learn into the organization.

Social Networks 36

Social Networks Mash-up Mashups ASTD 36

Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Networks reduce transfer costs to zero, enabling companies to focus on what they do best while outsourcing what others can do better. Developing more informed marketing partners. Industrial-age training required flocks of instructional designers to develop training programs and instructors to deliver them.

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Learning 2.0 Informal Learning Informal Cognitive 75

Jay Cross

APRIL 29, 2009

Last week I joined three dozen talent managers from top Silicon Valley companies at Cisco for a meeting of the Future of Talent Institute. These people are expanding their focus from initial recruiting and on-boarding to a holistic, cradle-to-grave approach to developing people. This is not your father’s HR.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Companies are happy to have their staff attend MOOCs for professional development but I have yet to see if a corporation would create a MOOC. It could be a great opportunity to connect companies with their customers? In corporate learning, many companies want customized training. Is it their core business?

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Free Business Asynchronous Theory 41

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2011

The big companies you call for help know there’s a better way. Advance the state of the art in customer interactions by developing innovative strategies, models and standards. We have developed a framework or model for thinking about the customer experience – The Funnel and the Cloud. The Customer Experience.

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Oracle Yahoo PDF Microsoft 41

Jay Cross

JULY 11, 2009

Synopsis: Smart companies prosper. Clueless companies die. Until recently, most of the collaboration and development that fuels the growth of individual and group braininess took place under the radar. Check the Preview for the introduction and table of contents. Brains make the difference.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 29, 2010

. “People naturally learn from each other, and as technology-supported social learning becomes main stream, what effects can we expect it to have on organisational Learning and Development? Smart organisations and managers recognise this, and make space for staff to cultivate these different approaches to developing their capability.&#.

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Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Social Networks Innovation 43

Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2011

Social Business Is Not Rocket Science - The Smart Work Company , June 17, 2011. Carl Jackson on Supporting Online Communities in International Development - Nancy White , June 2, 2011. Be Particular! - The Smart Work Company , June 13, 2011. The 21st century workplace: moving to the edge - Harold Jarche , June 21, 2011.

Social Media 47

Social Media PKM Enterprise 2.0 IBM 47

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

An astute VP at LSI Logic was concerned with the meager results of the company’s classroom training. In place of training, LSI put online development plans in place. A new CEO favors management development workshops. Training is allowed, but other development options are encouraged first. No More Training.

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Compliance Training Training Train Coaching 36

Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2010

The message is cool: More and more educational scenarios and learning landscapes are developed using blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios. However, practices of strategic innovation of universities, faculty development, assessment, evaluation and quality assurance have not fully accommodated these changes in technology and teaching.

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Culture Change Education Wiki 51

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

A ppropriately, he addressed how business is changing; he didn’t have to tell the 1,500 learning developers that they better get with the program. Paul Revere, warning sleepy companies that the web is a game-changing technology that can improve their innovation, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and collective intelligence.

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DevLearn Web Social Social Learning 40

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 18, 2010

As the pieces of companies become densely interconnected, the differences between knowledge management, training, collaborative learning, organization development, internal communication, and social networking fade away. People in IT and marketing will also profit from the stories here.

Social Networks 48

Social Networks iPad Social Network Upgrade 48

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Many people think of virtual worlds as the realm of characters in bizarre costumes and companies out to waste their PR budgets. Conservative organizations and schools are more likely to adopt environments developed specifically for business and academic applications. Karl and Tony see a phase change in how people learn.

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