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The foundations of innovation in L&D

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An enterprise social network covers the “in-betweens”, principally by empowering everyone to ask their own questions to the crowd, and to keep abreast of emergent knowledge in the moment. In this way, not only do we innovate now, but we have a platform for innovating into the future.

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Top 5 benefits of open badges for corporates

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That really means I’ve been thinking a lot about open badges lately, as I use my blog as a sense-making platform. Badges therefore give corporates the opportunity to recognise the employees who have completed their in-house training, within an enterprise-wide framework. I’ve been blogging a lot about open badges lately.

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Business applications of Twitter

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Well, you can do that with Yammer – a Twitter-like platform that allows you to set up a “group&# comprising your employees only. Imagine interacting with your colleagues across the enterprise, asking questions, collaborating, sharing knowledge. I share my knowledge, and I learn a lot more in return. participatory culture.

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Where is L&D heading?

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I find EY’s move here interesting, but I don’t expect other companies to follow suit en mass – particularly enterprise-wide. If you’re people aren’t the type who care and share, then a platform isn’t going to be much help. What respect do MOOC qualifications get? They’re not like us.

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7 big opportunities that MOOCs offer corporates

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While Coursera and others offer MOOCs covering business and management topics that are relevant across the enterprise, it’s important to realise that other topics (such as statistics, law and IT) may also be relevant to particular teams. Quality content, for free, from some of the world’s most respected educational institutions?

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Social media: It’s not about the technology!

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As an enterprise, Acme Corporation is “dipping its toes&# into social media. To maximise the value of the available tools and platforms, your employees must want to be collaborative; your managers must want to try something new to achieve greater success; your company must be proactive. Organisational culture.

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How social are our intranets?

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By “SII” I mean Social Intranet Index – a metric I have proposed to measure the degree of social functionality afforded by the platform. I posed this question to 23 intranet managers from around the world, and they kindly rated their respective platforms against a 10-point likert scale.

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