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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

For many older exectives, converting to e-business is like changing their religion.”. · Organizations have to put the fear of God in the way of executives who support of “training as usual.”. Training” extends outside the firewall. Frustrated by firewalls, many employees shifted training activities to their homes.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

It’s in their self interest to convert from training pawns to proactive learning opportunists. Local experts add the layer of understanding that converts the generic to the specific, from everyone’s organization to our organization. The hunger for proprietary knowledge does not stop at the firewall. Today, we’re in transition.