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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

Going forward, optimal execution is only the cost of entry and continual innovation will be the only sustainable differentiator. This puts a huge emphasis on innovation. Provided that learning and development leaders could and should have a central role in innovation, what is the chief learning officer’s responsibility?

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Informal Learning 2.0

Jay Cross

Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. Some cutting-edge corporations are adopting a new bundle of practices — let’s call them informal learning 2.0 — in order to improve operating efficiency by: • Slashing time to performance. Increasing customer loyalty though learning.

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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

The success factor for businesses will be, increasingly, the ability to: continually innovate. learn from mistakes. In essence, to do the important work faster. Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator.

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Importance of Questions in the Concept Age

ID Reflections

I was reading the white paper “ The Art of Powerful Questions : Catalyzing Insight, Innovation and Action by Eric E Vogt, Juanita Brown, and David Isaac. It is no longer a viable option in a culture that requires innovation, conversation and collaboration to move ahead, to make sense of the chaos, to see the emerging patterns in the change.

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Future of the training department

Clark Quinn

Instead, we need to make sure everyone understands what the overall goal is, and have them work together to achieve it. This is a redefinition of learning as performance, incorporating problem-solving, innovation, creativity, design, research, and more. It’s got to include performance support, and informal learning.

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Virtual Presentation – Ten eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

Tony promises to deliver a fast-paced, interactive discussion that will look at trends around social and informal learning, mobile, authoring, learning management systems, and others. If you are interested in attending, please contact Todd Slater at toddslater1@gmail.com for webinar information.

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Seed, feed, & weed

Clark Quinn

In my presentation yesterday, I was talking about how to get informal learning going. The point, however, is from the point of the view of the learner, all the resources needed are ‘to hand’ through every stage of knowledge work. Ready to get grubby?

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