Jay Cross

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Productivity advice from the sage

Jay Cross

Peter Drucker’s six factors for knowledge worker productivity are core principles for designing learnscapes. Knowledge worker productivity demands that we ask the question: “What is the task?&#. It demands that we impose the responsibility for productivity on the individual knowledge workers themselves.

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Win an award for an innovative project, product, or practice

Jay Cross

The awards are designed to recognize products, projects, processes, and companies that represent interesting innovations in applying technology for Corporate / Workplace Learning and Performance. George Siemens , Tony Karrer , and I are pleased to announce the LearnTrends 2009 Innovation Awards.

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The Yield of Happiness

Jay Cross

Productivity and hard work have long been integral pieces of a successful workplace. Cross has been striving to educate workplaces and their employees on the benefits of a happy working environment and teaching how small changes can boost productivity, ultimately increasing an organisation’s bottom line. The Yield of Happiness.

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Future of Conferences: Why People Attend

Jay Cross

Gather information about products, techniques, trends. Find out about new products, kick the tires, hear from vendors. Pick up an award for performance for your company or product. Introduce new products and concepts, e.g. The Experience API. Meet with vendors, see demos, compare products. What have I missed?

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udemy Course with Marissa Mayer

Jay Cross

During her 13 years at Google, she oversaw the company’s Search, Maps, and Local Products in addition to User Experience. At Google, product ideas came from users, strategic planning, acquisitions, and engineers solving problems for themselves. Google’s 20% rule has yielded half of their new products.

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How short a video?

Jay Cross

Recently I heard people praise two-minute productions. Short videos used to be ten minutes long (the limit on a YouTube upload back then). Then five minutes became a long time. This is 50 seconds. Does it work? Brain Science The process of Innovation'

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Business = service

Jay Cross

Unlike products, services are often designed or modified as they are delivered; they are co-created with customers; and service providers must often respond in real time to customer desires and preferences. The value of a service comes through the interactions: it’s not the end product that matters, so much as the experience.