The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

To find out what really is needed for success, Robert Pasick , Ed Holinski ,   and I surveyed business leaders in Southeast Michigan about their most pressing problems. Three hundred leaders of mostly small businesses were sent an online survey; 45 people responded. Identifying new sources of revenue.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 15, 2014

I’ve been on the content rant before , talking about the need to structure content into models , and the benefits of tagging. Full disclosure: I will be on a press pass to attend, but they didn’t reach out to me. I’m not in the PR business. design strategy technology'

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Limestone Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2023

PT: How to Unlock Learner Excellence with Personalized Learning Effective business leaders are concerned with improving talent retention, effectively integrating new artificial intelligence (AI) tools, improving competency modelling and more. Integrating new technologies into existing learning ecosystems.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 21, 2010

Competition with 2D Platforms Heats Up Virtual immersive environment provider, VenueGen just announced a new platform specifically designed for freelancers, small businesses, non-profits and trade groups. Read the press release here. Read the press release here. Tags: virtual immersive environment.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In the context of having my own book on mobile learning in press, I’m well-primed to review Gary Woodill’s The Mobile Learning Edge: Tools and Technologies for Developing Your Teams. It is also, not surprisingly, well-written, with a business focus. Tags: mobile. Which raises the question of the audience.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 6, 2010

Now, of course, we would be hard-pressed to conduct business without email. Tags: social strategy. I remember this because the company asked that the vendor turn off the email system as they didn’t want folks frittering away time being social. It’s the network, baby, so enable connections, don’t stifle them!

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Origin Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Complicating it more is the pressing demand for creating content and re-purposing it in such a way that it enraptures the attention of the energetic lot of new generation, tech-savvy learners, helping them to get hooked to learning that will help them build their skills and sharpen their competencies. That’s a bigger problem to handle.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 17, 2014

You’d be hard-pressed nowadays to find an adult who’s never learned anything from YouTube. While it doesn’t have to involve technology at all, new social tools like Facebook and Snapguide, and hardware like cameras on phones, coupled with increasing comfort with social sharing, make showing your work much easier now.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

operation of KPMG International Cooperative, a group that includes 189,000 employees in 152 countries who provide audit, tax and advisory services to businesses. Muñoz’s focus includes integrating new and emerging technologies, using data and analytics and employing the latest applications and approaches to learning.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Pandemic(s) People are becoming more and more paranoid about contagious disease and these diseases are getting more and more pressing making people more nervous about "catching something." Other times business are seeking a virtual world solution to solve a business problem and not addressing underlying fundamental problems.

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Designing Digitally

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Technology has provided access to information, but now employees are drowning under data. Busy employees, especially if they are traveling, appreciate these bite-sized learning more. Title: Social Learning Description: With the technology boom continuing, no one can ignore the effects of social media.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering, and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, health, and select commercial markets.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

A host of pressing business issues sit right in the center of learning leaders’ wheelhouses. It’s no secret that more and more learning happens online as digital technology worms its way into every aspect of our daily lives. Technology and globalization have seen to that. Mike Prokopeak, VP, Editor in Chief.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 3, 2010

According to the press announcement on the closing of There : Unfortunately, this also meant that There.com's customers were hardest hit by the recession, and, so was There. There's nothing more we would like to avoid this, but There is a business, and a business that can't support itself doesn't work. Tags: 3D worlds.

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TechSmith Camtasia

MAY 3, 2010

Meet David Frazier, State of Alabama technology trainer. With budgets being cut left and right, classroom training often suffers.and workers can fall further behind on technology. I have a degree in business administration and nothing in marketing. Tags: Camtasia Studio Customer Videos Wicked Cool 26 416 410.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 14, 2010

It has been a busy few weeks and May continues to be busy as I have a couple of presentations with my co-author Tony O'Driscoll coming up. Tags: Out and About. I was on a panel with Mark Bowe r and Susan Smith Nash. Bror Saxberg discussing the application of research to learning design to an enthralled audience.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 29, 2016

Research from Deloitte University Press titled “Global Human Capital Trends 2015, Leading in the New World of Work” indicates the percentage of companies rating learning and development as a “very high” priority tripled in a year, yet organizational readiness is rapidly declining. Technology infrastructure. End-user experience.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

“I care about the business,” he added. This is a position many business leaders take but don’t always communicate. He needed to turn the business around. For learning to pay off for the culture and more importantly the business, it must become growth. Only then does the business benefit from learning.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 10, 2018

Companies throughout the world feel the pressing need for more effective global leadership. Studies show organizations do not have the global leaders needed to keep up with the speed of business, nor are they satisfied with the quality of their leaders. Amy discussed this issue with several close members of her team. Tucker, Ph.D.,

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 10, 2010

this moment, our information is far from complete but it's a pretty good bet that if you're a part of the Lab's market-development or business-development groups, you're already clearing out your desk this week. Tags: virtual immersive environment 3D worlds. This can't be making IBM happy.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 4, 2010

Here is a press release about one big virtual world event where Tony and I will be speaking about Learning in 3D. Presenters at VWBPE10 are at the forefront of capitalizing on advances in new technologies and a broad range of disciplines related to virtual worlds. Tags: Second Life 3D worlds 3D Book Tour.

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Steve Howard

JULY 14, 2012

Quoting the book Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America the Nick Sauers has the following list: From a principal’s pub­li­ca­tion in 1815: “Students today depend on paper too much. I think the only thing I regularly write these days are cheques, and my writing is still horrible.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

A July 2016 Accountemps survey reveals that in today’s economy — where what people know and how they apply it is more pivotal than ever for businesses — CFOs see a desire to learn as an employee’s most important asset. Successful people never stop learning,” Accountemps District President Bill Driscoll said in a press release.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 11, 2018

Degrees will be offered through Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska, Brandman University, Irvine, California, and the University of Florida in Gainesville — nonprofit schools that were selected, according to a May 30 Walmart press release, for their focus and strong outcomes on serving working adult learners.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 27, 2010

From a press release yesterday: Learning Light has now launched the new look and feel e-learning centre. The Centre’s Articles and Papers section contains these ten articles I wrote when Internet Time Group was affiliated with Learning Light: Experience and best practices of businesses using Web 2.0 technologies.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2009

You can read the post here: Business-driven Learning and LH Theory (Love-Hate Theory). This triggered thoughts related to learner motivation and how even a “business driven” or “business centric” program benefit from motivated learners. From a business perspective, they are cheaper and faster to create and deliver.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 28, 2010

In the business of making video games. EA University Knowledge Changes Everything Producers and designers – at EA – the business is so unique. Every online game played in John Madden for the past year phones home…it reports button presses, the timing, lots of detailed information. When people lie, they make his job harder).

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 22, 2009

Of course, Learning Tree International's business is selling face-to-face courses, but most of us will have had the Learning Tree catalogue 'brick' of courses dropping onto our desks on a regular basis for many years. Readers Digest is much older, having first rolled off the presses in 1922. Learning Tree has been around since 1974.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 2, 2010

I've been busy, is my excuse. I have been pretty busy touring around the North island speaking at various events, but over the last two days I have had some down-time to spend with my family in Auckland (City Centre pictured left). Tags: YouTube Auckland education ulearn10 learning New Zealand emerging technology.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Next, I learned that virtual worlds are starting to gain the attention of publications like the Harvard Business Review and that the need to understand how to effectively use this technology to teach is acute because many learning and development professionals still think the use of Virtual Worlds for Learning is over hyped.

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Janet Clarey

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

makes clear that the new technologies are good for much more than just socializing-when properly applied, they help businesses solve pressing problems, capture dispersed and fast-changing knowledge, highlight and leverage expertise, generate and refine ideas, and harness the wisdom of crowds. photo: [link].

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LifterLMS

AUGUST 6, 2019

As a marketing manager for your business, you have to manage the relationship and integration between many tools that track and interact with customers along the buyer’s journey. Validating your product is a large part of creating a successful online course business, and many course creators do not focus enough on that aspect.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2016

Some enterprising young folks are even skipping higher education altogether, encouraged by people like Silicon Valley financier Peter Thiel whose self-titled fellowship promises young entrepreneurs a cool $100,000 if they bypass the classroom and start a business. It’s not just West Coast tech types who are looking for another way.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

The team met with experts to hear about advances in technology and neuroscience. Driving change — it can’t be HR-led, it has to be business-led,” Varma said. “It If it’s not role-modeled by our business leaders, it will never come to fruition,” he said. It has to be led by top leadership of your company.”.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 7, 2009

She has also been hailed by the press as ' a failed student who is now in charge of inspecting schools'. Teachers are often lagging behind when it comes to good use of learning technologies, but worse, they can no longer aford to represent themselves as the sole arbiters of knowledge. What will happen when this becomes common practice?

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Mark Oehlert

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

» February 11, 2008 "MIT Researchers Advance Lecture Capture with Search Capabilities" (Campus Technology) ( story link ) Now this is what I call an *LMS (lecture management system). We are plainly witnessing a restructuring of the music and newspaper businesses, but their suffering isn’t unique, it’s prophetic."--Clay

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Janet Clarey

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

In a nutshell, my main points: The “younger” generation (&# millennials&# born in the 80s-90s) are not [automatic] masters of technology and often use a limited range of technologies (i.e., Don’t ground transformation of education arguments around “younger” generations’ expectations and patterns of technology use. Chinnery, G.M.

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