Podcasts are a great medium for distributing an organization’s content and expertise because they can be played on hand held devices and computers. This flexibility and ease of use could encourage impromptu learning events and meetings that can be set up in a moments notice, increasing the informal learning opportunities within and outside an organization. Blogging to teach others is common in the public domain, but not so within an organization. Blogging could help an organization’s knowledge quotient to explode and is definitely something worth exploring. MORE >>

Based on insights from her book , the podcast looks at trends and predictions about what the workforce will look like in 2020. This means that over half an organization’s workforce will have been hyper-connected since birth. However, before Jeanne’s hopeful predictions of the highly agile and fluid 2020 workforce connected by mobile social networks can come to fruition, the dependence on the enterprise LMS and the old modes of training delivery needs to be broken. In most organizations, the need for training happens on the job, at a moment of need. MORE >>

My point then was that mobile offers immense potential for learning and support but that it is not yet making much of a difference in the enterprise. Their focus is on results for their organizations and high quality experiences for their people. This Mobile is not yet center stage in their enterprise learning. Not yet, but soon, is how I would characterize the responses from leaders in organizations as different as Amway and Ingersoll Rand. For example, we recently shifted to IPAD based instruction for most of our Leadership Development Center courses. MORE >>

An effective suite of enterprise social tools can help organizations share knowledge, collaborate, and cooperate – connecting the work being done with the identification of new opportunities and ideas. In an age when everything is getting connected, it only makes sense to have platforms in place that enable faster feedback loops inside the organization in order to deal with connected customers, suppliers, partners, and competitors. It takes a networked organization, staffed by people with networked mindsets, to thrive in a networked economy. MORE >>

Jay Cross has initiated an online conversation about the Coherent Organization/Enterprise: At the Internet Time Alliance, we’re big fans of narrating our work. We’re each teasing out the meaning of what we call  the Coherent Organization  with models. am interested in the role of communities of practice in knowledge sharing. Here is my logic: Sharing complex knowledge requires strong social ties, but only working with our peers may blind us to outside ideas. If you are a blogger, you know how blogging makes you reflect on your experience and draw conclusions. MORE >>