Acorn Labs

MARCH 5, 2023

And that was a training program around business consulting skills. On that front, and with HR being able to touch everything and having people with different backgrounds and experiences, how have you found aligning your L&D strategy with the overall business strategy? What's the bigger business direction that you're going into? "It

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 25, 2013

ROI and cost saving formulas may work well in a situation where dollars invested can be directly and unequivocally tied to sales of product or increases in market share. Even with an MBA, I haven’t been able to figure out how to make ROI metrics consistently apply to our budget process.

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eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Be aware you are not changing the functionality angle, nor would you want do – especially around metrics, etc. The number of vendors who can do full customization is very small, and it is labor intensive (on the vendor part, which means cost), and priced high on the buyer side. The Potential Miss? All for one, and one for none.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

ManTech views learning as a differentiator and a business imperative.”. She also partners with ManTech University staff and the company’s communities of practice to ensure any changes in the marketplace are reflected in the content the company offers. Mission and enterprise IT.

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Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I love not only having great communities of practice with people that are in the industry, but also obviously, helping that next generation of learning designer with the right mindset and skills to succeed. Sometimes we do it for speed, sometimes we do it for cost. But I love it. I love doing it. And how do I need to get there?

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Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I love not only having great communities of practice with people that are in the industry, but also obviously, helping that next generation of learning designer with the right mindset and skills to succeed. Sometimes we do it for speed, sometimes we do it for cost. But I love it. I love doing it. And how do I need to get there?

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Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Performance support–business process guidance & JIT learning. Support communities of practice around domains. None of these tools will work if you don’t spend significant time engaging with the business–engaging learners, change management. Business results? Aspects of learning. Experience.

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Acorn Labs

JULY 9, 2023

Is it driving competitive advantage, future growth, risk mitigation, cost reduction, or all the above? Step 1: Define the landscape Given all capability building roads lead back to business goals, we need to start with the business itself. This is not just a high-level business tool. That means asking three questions.

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Acorn Labs

JULY 9, 2023

Is it driving competitive advantage, future growth, risk mitigation, cost reduction, or all the above? Step 1: Define the landscape Given all capability building roads lead back to business goals, we need to start with the business itself. This is not just a high-level business tool. That means asking three questions.

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Effectiveness Assessment Leadership Metrics 52

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2013

For the first time, this year's study breaks out metrics for organizations at different levels of learning and development maturity. These learning functions help to build the required human capabilities within their organizations to meet business goals and respond to change. Large businesses tripled their spending on social learning.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 13, 2017

If you’re sponsoring or developing a peer learning program, you know that professional communities of practice are a cost-effective way to leverage the collective wisdom and experience of a group of leaders with similar roles, challenges or interest areas. Tags: communities of practice , peer learning.

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eLearning 24-7

MARCH 9, 2020

With more and more corporate entities telling their employees not to come into the office and/or do not do any business related travel, I am calling on Learning Solutions and ATD to cancel their trade shows for 2020. Especially on the vendor side, whereas pricing for systems, dropped in cost. The Virus and Trade Shows in our Industry.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality. Success metrics for learning will be based on content access, views, involvement and downloads. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Twitter, Yammer), wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Few industries can keep theory and practice as proximate and immediate as learning, and treating everyday needs as an opportunity to experiment can lead to better results and innovation. The biggest challenges may not be cost, time or talent, but corporate preference for transactional rather than consultative support.

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Talented Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Today, we discuss these questions and more with Dave Derington , Director of User Enablement at Azuqua , a cloud integration-as-a-platform (iPaaS) provider that makes it easy for anyone to set-up automated digital workflows across business applications. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Every business can benefit from educated customers.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Three hundred UK companies took part in a survey that focused on building the business case for eLearning. Over the past three years, the focus has shifted from delivering training to delivering business results. Now that IT infrastructure is in place and set-up costs have plummeted, people have become the top barrier to change.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Social knowledge management consultant Harold Jarche suggests there are multiple layers, from collaborating in work teams, to collective learning in communities of practice, to cooperative learning with peers and friends in our networks (Figure 1). As a strategic solution, pay serious attention to the investment business case.

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Limestone Learning

MARCH 30, 2020

There are tons of free webinars this month to keep you connected with your communities of practice. Now and then, forecasting ROI on improved proficiency with critical skills is a useful pursuit as it helps demonstrate value in mathematical terms, when those all-important business measures are unavailable.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

Up next: networks obsolete authoritarian, fixed-asset based, rigid, closed models of doing business. Be a business person. Formal learning tends to be expensive; informal cuts costs because it’s learner-driven. Talk business metrics. Empower communities of practice and project teams.

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Jay Cross

MAY 30, 2009

Their underlying economic argument was cost-cutting: less travel, fewer facilities and no more salary expense for instructors. Companies should embrace network-supported informal learning because it works better, not because it reduces labor costs. New communities have different requirements than old.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2014

A 2012 Towards Maturity benchmarking study (Figure 1) showed that: • 95 percent of companies surveyed want to use technology to increase best practice sharing, but only 25 percent are achieving this. • 92 percent seek to use learning technologies to respond faster to business change, but only 25 percent achieve this.

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learnWorlds

AUGUST 29, 2023

However, it is crucial to acknowledge that effective training programs often entail a considerable L&D budget in terms of direct and indirect costs of training, subject matter expertise, resources, and infrastructure required. Additionally, ongoing support and continuous learning opportunities add to the long-term costs.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2011

Bill Whitmore, CEO of AlliedBarton Security Services began the morning with a keynote on how to drive business performance through leadership branding. Whitmore asked the audience if their company can distinguish value and explained why a company’s leadership brand matters in the context of creating business results.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

This morning I took part in a conference call focused on now might we use the precepts of agile programming in general (non-IT) business settings. It’s been influenced by lean manufacturing and spawned practices like Scrum. Discussion flushed out other aspects: John Smith: this is a community of practice approach.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

MAKING BUSINESS DECISIONS: THE HEART AND THE HEAD. Jay Cross examines decision making on learning at work, and gives the lie to some myths about the use of business metrics. To “earn a seat at the table” where the business managers sit, you must: Speak the language of business. Think like a business person.

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Acorn Labs

MAY 30, 2023

Digital dexterity should be built into business models. Understand the business value digital generates, and how that may evolve in future. That gives you the information to align a digital capability framework with business performance. So, consider: How will this digital capability support long-term business goals?

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Acorn Labs

MAY 30, 2023

Digital dexterity should be built into business models. Understand the business value digital generates, and how that may evolve in future. That gives you the information to align a digital capability framework with business performance. So, consider: How will this digital capability support long-term business goals?

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Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

At the same time, we are shifting into an era in which knowledge work and learning occur where re-engineered business processes collide with a participative and interactive ecology of information flows. In a business culture that is skeptical of nonnumerical reasoning, ROI implies disciplined, mathematical rigor. Traditional ROI.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

This is the second in a series of posts about how business can profit from informal learning. This is business. If a learning project–make that any project–does not make business sense, don’t do it. Training metrics should be business metrics. What makes informal learning effective. Getting down to cases.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

This paper addresses how organizations, particularly business organizations, can get more done. The metrics of our scale are the organization’s core objectives: Reducing time-to-performance. Thirty years ago an electronic calculator was a novelty that cost $100 or more. Others are costs to be minimized. Find a connection.

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