innovation
7 tips to help your learning go viral
So you'd like to see your training go viral huh? Whether it's for sales, technical, customers, partners or internal to your organization, there are some clear guidelines to make this happen. At VMG, we love the cloud, so I'm going to reference one of the best in the business on ... Read More
Thinkin’ big, startin’ small
'Start Small, Think Big, Scale Fast' is a phrase I've heard a few times from our Chairman, Tom Kraack. What happens when a company has already become big? Years of processes, teams upon teams, re-org upon re-org. Can they still start small, think big innovative thoughts, and then take that ... Read More
Strategic Planning – Be the Windshield
This is the second in a series of posts for the business of learning. In my previous post, I spoke some about innovation and how it applies to the learning department and will save related topics on culture, leadership, and running the function as a ... Read More
Learning Innovation – Keep Stumbling
This is the first in a five part series on managing learning teams and how to succeed in the ‘new normal’ of our industry. As the head of a learning function, global education, etc – I see five main components that are the lifeblood of the organization. - Innovation - Strategic planning - Communication/Change Management - Execution - Evaluation Innovation ... Read More
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: ... Read More
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
Crowdsourcing and Individual Creativity
Beth, I think you had some great points in your last post If We Can Crowdsource Products, Why Not Learning?, but it struck me as maybe too far on the side of the "collective" vs. "individual inspiration". You end with "If the collective thoughts of random strangers can design ... Read More
If We Can Crowdsource Products, Why Not Learning?
People are bringing new products to life in a mere fraction of the time it typically takes to get form idea to reality, trusting completely to the wisdom of the crowds to develop both the concept and the market simultaneously. Companies like Threadless and Quirky ... Read More
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
The recession is forcing innovation
Charlie Gillette provides some great advice in his post Helping your Training Organization Survive and Thrive Through the Recession. His suggestions are definitely very aligned with what we're advising our clients. There's one point I'm a bit surprised by though: _However, I dropped the “right sizing point” since all organizations ... Read More
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