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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

Going forward, optimal execution is only the cost of entry and continual innovation will be the only sustainable differentiator. This puts a huge emphasis on innovation. Provided that learning and development leaders could and should have a central role in innovation, what is the chief learning officer’s responsibility?

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Importance of Questions in the Concept Age

ID Reflections

I was reading the white paper “ The Art of Powerful Questions : Catalyzing Insight, Innovation and Action by Eric E Vogt, Juanita Brown, and David Isaac. It is no longer a viable option in a culture that requires innovation, conversation and collaboration to move ahead, to make sense of the chaos, to see the emerging patterns in the change.

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

Any remaining training staff will become mentors, coaches and facilitators who work on improving core business processes, strengthening relationships with customers and cutting costs. My assistants will become the director of sales readiness and the director of competitive advantage, respectively. Friendfeed /jaycross.

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

If you are not fully fluent with terms like revenue, earnings, cost, cash flow, margin, and value, take a look at here and get a friend to explain the workings of the basic business model. An executive, a manager, a training director, and a worker each have different but valid ways of evaluating the effectiveness of learning.

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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: opportunities and challenges for the L&D profession

Performance Learning Productivity

The expectation now is that many workers, particularly the expanding number carrying out knowledge work, as well as people managers and executives in all enterprises, are always-on and hyper-connected. Innovation is their driver and change is accepted as the norm. They, themselves, expect immediacy and real-time responses.

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The 70:20:10 Model – Today, Tomorrow & Beyond

Learnnovators

ABOUT CHARLES JENNINGS (Managing Director, Duntroon Associates): Charles Jennings is a leading thinker, practitioner and consultant in the areas of performance improvement, change management, and learning. 80% or more of corporate learning is found to be informal” Peter Henchel, Executive Director, Institute for Research on Learning. “70%

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Curated Insights: The Human Side of Extracting Business Value from Information

CLO Magazine

Ample supporting evidence ensures the insight does not morph into opinion, unwarranted skepticism or objection and encourages action, innovation, creation and problem solving. Novelty: Innovative and provocative insights that stand out beyond the 24/7 information flow with which employees are overwhelmed are compelling.