John Hathaway

President & CTO

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.

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    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 [...]

    Is fun enough to cause real change?

    Volkswagen's Fun Theory project "is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better." Their Piano Staircase video has been a huge viral hit.

    I think this is a great example of using fun and novelty to get people to pause and consider [...]

    To get Twitter you gotta Tweet!

    It's always tough to try to explain the value of Twitter to people who have never used it. "It's updates from people in 140 characters."

    It's like describing this painting by Chuck Close by saying "it's got all these little blobs of color". True, but doesn't really capture the experience.

    The value of the painting doesn't come [...]