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Design Thinking Culture Change in IBM

The Performance Improvement Blog

So I was intrigued to hear that IBM, a 100 year old, world-wide company of over 370,000 employees, is embarking on a culture change that is heavily dependent on learning. According to a column by Steve Lohr in the New York Times, IBM is seeking to reinvent itself as a “design thinking” company.

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eFrontPro For IBM Connections

eFront

One of the recent innovations in the training industry has come through the use of social technologies to support informal learning: organizations have experimented with Twitter, in particular, to increase employee awareness of when and where eLearning content is available for them. Don’t Have IBM Connections?

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Supercomputer's Win on Jeopardy: Little Comfort to Those.

Dashe & Thomson

In fact, the competition wasn’t close; the computer came away with nearly four times as much money as the closest nearest competitor. less big companies, for more than 20 years. Properly d.

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Informal Learning Flow

Tony Karrer

I've always been a big believer in the value and power of informal learning. Over the past few years, I've written quite a few posts about informal learning. is one part of systematizing support for informal learning. The person I most associate with informal learning is Jay Cross.

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A Dozen Ways To Promote Informal Learning

CLO Magazine

Learning management systems and learning content management systems are the centerpiece for many learning departments, but most organizations are unaware that these systems have capabilities to support informal learning. What follows are 12 ways to engage a workforce in informal learning tactics.

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Tony Bingham #ASTDL20 keynote

Learning Visions

IBM Global Student study 2010 IBM Study: inheriting a complex word [link] “Tomorrows leaders will be markedly different than previous generations.” CEOs want to talk about learning holistically – how do we focus on each of those channels? The concept of learning as an event has changed. What is informal learning?

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Preparation for Oxford Union Debate on Informal Learning

Jay Cross

I’m going to be debating the merits of informal learning with some downright scary competition: Nancy Lewis, who’s probably best known as the champion of IBM’s formidable sales training, and Allison Rossett, who has developed more can-do instructional designers than anyone else on the planet.