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Through the Workscape Looking Glass

Jay Cross

L&D has traditionally focused on the needs of employees on the payroll exclusively, disregarding the fact that partners, customers, subcontractors, temps, service agencies, outsourcers, suppliers, and others are equally part of the value chain. extending the Workscape to cover partners, customers, and outsourced services.

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Notes from DevLearn and the Adobe Learning Summit

Steve Howard

Don’t underestimate the potential of this and any other tool that enables a backchannel to your training! interaction behind the company firewall – safe, secure conversations not visible to the public. interaction behind the company firewall – safe, secure conversations not visible to the public. Some benefits:-.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

To create intellectual capital it can use, a company needs to foster teamwork, communities of practice, and other social forms of learning. In sum, communities are much more than a way to make up for knowledge deficiencies of some individuals. The hunger for proprietary knowledge does not stop at the firewall.