Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 20, 2011
He ran Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe Interactive Studio before he became VP, Platform & Technology for Second Life at Linden Labs. He worked on the PLATO system for Control Data. He did early stuff with Atari, EPYX, SEGA, and Leapfrog. Joe’s take on learning is a good fit with mine: Learning is a uniquely human experience.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
They need a new platform. Salesforce has developed just such a platform, Salesforce1. Substitute “learning” for “selling” and you’d have the backbone of a powerful enterprise learning system. Either way, it’s the platform on which future training programs, extremely short ones, will play.
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Jay Cross
JULY 3, 2013
These five trends are driving the need for learning platforms ("Workscapes"): 1) changing behaviors which are being shaped by social media entering the enterprise 2) new collaborative technologies 3) a shift to the “cloud” 4) millennials soon becoming the majority workforce and 5) mobility and “connecting to work.”.
Jay Cross
APRIL 10, 2010
Another firm claims to have added a “social learning platform layer that enables customers to securely empower their employees to find, create and share knowledge assets and expertise with their colleagues as they leverage an extensive&# online book collection. Read the comments to get the full flavor of the argument.
Jay Cross
JUNE 17, 2013
I’m soundly convinced that Learning Platforms are crowding out Learning Programs. The learning platform is the organization itself, not some separate entity. Peak into my brain. New thoughts are percolating but the outcomes are still fuzzy. Most of this learning takes place in the workplace. A Workscape is a metaphorical space.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 28, 2012
The Extended Enterprise. We need to start thinking of businesses as extended enterprises, especially when it comes to learning, because really, each business includes distributors, suppliers, temps, partners, contractors, and, importantly, customers as well, all in addition to employees. Many alumni are future customers.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
Andrew McAfee , Principal Research Scientist , Center for Digital Business – MIT Sloan School of Management and Author, Enterprise 2.0. Today, Enterprise 2.0 He shares strategies, stories, and real-world examples of successful enterprise collaboration using 2.0 People already share knowledge within the enterprise.
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