Jay Cross

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Enterprise Twitter

Jay Cross

When I draw a blueprint of an ideal enterprise learning environment, it always includes an expertise location function. IBM has long been my model of getting this one right. Even at IBM, and I’m several years out of date so this could have changed, Blue Pages wasn’t flawless. Skeptical or not, I had to try it.

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Embedding social learning into texts and enterprise software

Jay Cross

Joe described an elite group of engineers at IBM that replaced their bi-annual face-to-face sessions with meetings in Second Life. The parent had it wrong. You learn more in the company of other people. Two kids per computer make for a more effective learning experience. Most preferred the virtual meetings.

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Everything’s Coming Up Networks (except learning)

Jay Cross

.” They understand the power of weak ties in enterprise social networks. But in the long run, people are eager to express themselves and enterprise collegiality is the path to “knowing what HP knows.” ” Yesterday IBM presented a compelling case for social business excellence at the Enterprise 2.0

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Musing on Google’s Power Searching Course and marketing

Jay Cross

He returned to PARC before becoming a Senior Research Science at IBM’s Almaden Research Center. A corporation and its connections form an extended enterprise. For Us to prosper, we have to be on the same wave length as our connections in the extended enterprise. No corporation is an island. Everything’s a node.)

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Most awesome revelations in Working Smarter Daily for June 2011

Jay Cross

Reconciling the enterprise IT portfolio with social media - Dion Hinchcliffe , June 5, 2011. IBM’s Centennial - Irving Wladawsky-Berger , June 12, 2011. Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2 at 5 - Andy McAfee , June 14, 2011. The 21st century workplace: moving to the edge - Harold Jarche , June 21, 2011.

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Timing is Everything

Jay Cross

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). CLOs need to build capabilities to address future challenges of the enterprise.”. How well do you get along with this group?

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Future of Talent

Jay Cross

IBM is downsizing radically by spinning out smaller, more manageable units. Everyone needs to shoulder responsibility for delighting customers and improving the enterprise. Redefining the concept of the employee in the era of co-creation. Corporations rely on many types of workers. Which of them should be employees?

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