Getting Down to Business

Putting knowledge to work

Why not cloudsourcing for enterprise app user adoption/training?

I was reading a recent blog post from the wise IDC analyst covering SaaS and the enterprise cloud, Mike Fauscette, about the emerging trend of 'cloudsourcing' (full disclosure- also my friend and former boss back in the day). My first thought: yet another cloud thingamajig? Second thought: wow, he's on ... Read More

~ posted by Glenn Oclassen on 22 Dec 09
   tagged as :Appirio, cloud, cloudsource

Aligning Training with the Business: A Simple Model

Greg Brisendine and I recently collaborated on a presentation for an eLearning Guild online forum. We synthesized his experience with training measurement and prevalent measurement models (including Six Sigma's DMAIC and Deming's PDCA) and my experience in training design, development, and management to create the model ... Read More

~ posted by Beth Chmielowski on 16 Dec 09
   tagged as :business alignment, business of learning, design

Dreamforce09: Chatter makes it easy

What more could a typical ADD sales rep want? A killer CRM tool in the cloud, all sorts of great apps that integrate with it, and now a social component! Along the lines of Beth's post on the Marc Benioff keynote, I had started to pull a blog ... Read More

~ posted by Jon Lloyd on 23 Nov 09
   tagged as :channel readiness, sales training, social learning

The Changing Roles in the Learning Organization

Among the continuing themes across conferences last week (Learning2009, #L2009 and DevLearn09, #dl09) was the very nature of the learning organization itself. The functional nature and the very fabric of the organization itself was continually pulled upon like a loose thread waiting to come unwound. What really caused ... Read More

~ posted by Jon Lloyd on 16 Nov 09
   tagged as :bus, business of learning, learning2009

Key Themes and Takeaways from Masie Learning 2009: Part I

Also check out Beth's Learning2009 posts at Explorations Twitter: #L2009, @jonll, @bethchm Speakers This was my first Masie event, but I absolutely loved the up close and personal interview style that Elliott had with all of the keynotes, and impromptu supporting cast of characters. John Abele and Lem Lasher were really ... Read More

~ posted by Jon Lloyd on 12 Nov 09
   tagged as :#L2009, Learning 2009, masie

Purpose to Plan: Plan to Succeed

Jon and I recently delivered a webinar with the super-smart folks at Trainingindustry.com titled "Doing Less with Less: Turning Crisis into Opportunity" ( you can see the recording here, and the slideshare here). We were really prescribing a 'recipe' for leveraging the budget cuts, cash crunches, ... Read More

~ posted by Glenn Oclassen on 8 Oct 09
   tagged as :budget cuts, business of learning, business plan, innovation

There’s nothing rapid about Rapid eLearning

The term ‘rapid elearning’ has befuddled me for some time. Beth's reference to "Rabid eLearning" in her recent blog post got me thinking about this topic once again. Given that I came from one of the pioneers in the industry (eHelp) which brought RoboDemo, now Adobe Captivate, to market ... Read More

~ posted by Jon Lloyd on 5 Oct 09
   tagged as :business, eLearning, measurement

Transforming crisis to opportunity

Not to give away too much on our upcoming webinar for Training Industry (Sept 23, 10am PT: "Do less with less, transforming crisis to opportunity") - but doing "less with less" means eliminating what is ineffective or irrelevant, and delivering a much leaner, more effective business for a lot ... Read More

~ posted by Jon Lloyd on 18 Sep 09
   

How Influence will Transform Learning

A really interesting post from Ross Dawson on Five key trends in how influence is transforming society. I think that as informal and social learning becomes more commonplace in the enterprise, that we'll see a similar trend in the training space across these same five ideas. http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2009/08/five_key_trends.html 1. Influence ... Read More

~ posted by Jon Lloyd on 27 Aug 09
   tagged as :business of learning, social learning

Disruptive Forces Converge in Our Industry; We All Stand to Win From the Resulting Innovation

I have been thinking a lot lately about the concept of disruption, and its applicability to our industry. One of the many reasons our corporate training industry often is described by analysts as a second tier industry is that the business we are all in is actually thought of as ... Read More

~ posted by Glenn Oclassen on 27 Jul 09
   tagged as :business of learning, change, disruption, innovation