Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Time Is Money

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Chief Learning Officer, April 2010. Sun’s most vigorous competitors in the workstation market, IBM and Hewlett Packard, were training new sales reps for eight and six weeks respectively. The recruits also learned the ins and outs of Sun’s brand new sales information system and were certified as trainers on the new system.

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Who don’t we want to work smarter?

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Next month I’ll be conducting several onsite workshops to inject informal/social learning practices into hidebound organizations that are anxious to ramp up to the future. An organization that is committed to working smarter needs to assess the impact of helping employees learn at every step in their career cycle with the company.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Informal Learning Blog » Dawn of the virtual learnscape

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Learning in three dimensions

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

My pal Tony O’Driscoll asked me to help spread the word about the upcoming 3D Training Learning and Collaboration (3DTLC) conference in Washington DC next month. The difficulty of learning to use a virtual environment is a barrier to wide adoption by corporations. What would this mean for the IBM brand?

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Join the Internet Time Alliance for a day

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

We’d swap our views on recent thoughts emanating from Altimeter, IBM, Dan Pink, JSB, and others we listen to. Books such as The Working Smarter Fieldbook, Informal Learning, & Engaging Learning. Tags: Informal Learning itimealliance. Then we spotted a potential pitfall: the echo-chamber effect. Interested?