Well not quite, but it is pretty dang close to the definition of Management Consulting in Wikipedia: Management consulting refers to both the industry of, and the practice of, helping organizations improve their performance, primarily through the analysis of existing business problems and development of plans for improvement. In this world, you can't really distinguish the mandate of Management Consulting from the mandate of: Enterprise 2.0 Knowledge Management Learning & Development I do think there's a slightly different historical mind set and skill

Tags: consulting design management learning strateg There are many dynamics that ultimately impact the quality, cost and effectiveness of a learning solution. Whether it be eLearning, blended or in-person training, a learning initiative, product, course, application or event, all of these solutions have one undeniable MUST HAVE: a leader. How do the actions of a learning leader impact design, costs and [...] ...Tags:

consulting eLearning social medi David Armano from Edelman shared a great post about what organizations should consider as they grapple with determining where social media lives within an organization. One of his key points: “So 8220;So while managers debate who will control social media inside their organizations — marketing, PR, corporate, IT — I say stop and ask the bigger

Learning consultants cannot “design” the learning outcomes of a CoP; but conversely no CoP can fully design its own learning.  The art is to help such communities find resources and connections without burdening them with “consulting guidance”.   informal learning performance consulting social media Communities of Practice e learning knowledge management peformance desig In my last post I listed ten strategies for integrating learning with work. They are a combination of concepts and methods that build knowledge and bring learning into day to day

The presenter Matthew May was a senior consultant to the university of Toyota and his this presentation is based on his book The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation. Tags: Knowledge work Performance Design informal learning management development performance consulting process Improvement action learning continuous improvement kaizen Learning Desig This post continues the Ten Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work series.   Last post I discussed communities of practice and social media, two strategies focused on collaboration and networks where learning and knowledge are a natural byproduct. 

Tags: Learning Design e learning performance consulting performance support ADDIE authentic learning tasks Instructional desig The traditional approach to instructional design has been bruised and battered for some years now.  Sometimes the criticism is legitimate and thoughtful and other times it is shallow and faddish.   I think one of the genuine concerns

learning and performance What’s a self respecting learning function to do in an economic crisis? Minimalist Learning Design: Another alternative to rapid e-learning Digital Performance Support: An alternative to formal e-learning e-Learning templates and standards…at what cost? Blog Topics Select Category Competency Models e learning e-learning 2.0 Foundations Instructional design Knowledge work Learning Learning Design performance consulting Performance Design performance support process Improvement

Organizational Effectiveness as Internal Management Consulting Another possible organizational model is the professional services firm or management consulting company.   It would be possible to organize the unit as an internal consultancy of sorts modeled on the multidisciplinary focus of many of the large consulting companies.  In a blog post while back i mentioned it might be nice to see the training function morph into something more akin to an organizational effectiveness unit in the next ten years.  So i enjoyed a  recent post (The Rise of the Chief Performance

In the same way we now do needs assessment to identify formal skill development needs, learning consultants can analyze business processes, problem solving, and decision making methods to determine how and where informal learning solutions and mechanisms would help improve performance. Learning consultants can help teams plan, establish, build nurture and maintain communities of practice. Interest in informal learning by the training function is tangible and growing.  The 2008 ASTD State of the Industry report contained a special survey section on informal learning.