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Leave Learning to Employees, sort of

Jay Cross

This article describes the CLO of Kaplan as he adapts to a world where employees can route around learning to find their own content. Kaplan set up a wiki that has proved very successful. The Kaplan CLO states his situation honestly: At the end of the day, I as the learning professional am not going to change how the business runs.

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PARC is 40!

Jay Cross

Ron Kaplan, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Bing. I plan to recount a few stories that appear in From Counterculture to Cyberculture. Google the Churchill Club if you want to join the event. Raj Apte, Area Manager, Prototype Devices and Circuits, PARC. David Liddle, Venture Partner, US Venture Partners. Moderator: Mark Bernstein , CEO, PARC.

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PARC turns 40, Churchill Club turns 25

Jay Cross

Ron Kaplan, a 25-year PARC veteran who’s now the principal researcher for Bing, pitched in some commentary about the commercialism of research innovation. Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed, said PARC CEO Marc Bernstein. Every researcher was involved in multiple projects.

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