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John Hathaway
John puts technology to work.
He is known throughout the learning field for devising utterly simple, yet extremely effective, technology solutions. With a rare combination of deep technology expertise and sharp instructional design skills, he converts what is costly, complicated, time-consuming and laborious into minimal technology that delivers real performance improvements and business impact. With over 13 years experience with innovative startups, large corporations, and just about everything in between, John has mastered the art of solving the problem at a detailed level in the fewest possible steps. He invariably looks for the smarter way to do things—with people and processes as well as with technology—regardless of how entrenched the existing model has become. And then he envisions and delivers the elegant solution that leads to tangible business results.
John's Recent Posts
The 4 Cs of Extended Enterprise Learning and Performance
At VMG we spend a lot of time thinking about what drives enterprise learning and performance. Although each of our clients and partners has unique problems to solve, each solution we create contains some mix of the following four elements:
Let’s look at each of these, starting at the bottom.
Control
Corporate training has long been about control: [...]
Cloud/SaaS Knowledge Ecosystem: The Players
I’ve spent the past couple of days with some of the VMG team brainstorming about the opportunities we see in the Cloud/SasS market and how we want to approach them. One of the first things we did was to map out what that ecosystem looks like and how the knowledge flows between the different types [...]
Why are Talent, Performance & Learning dominating the cloud??
Kevin Dobbs at Montclair Advisors recently posted some interesting data on how much investment it takes to build a Software-as-a-Service company.
http://montclairadvisors.com/blog/2010/01/how-much-investment-does-it-take-to-start-a-saas-co/
While the data is interesting, there was something else here that really caught my attention: 7 of these 15 companies are in Talent Management, Performance Management, Human Capital Management, and/or Learning Management. (Not that I [...]