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Are We Still “Re-engineering” Work?
In 1990, Michael Hammer published an article in the Harvard Business Review calling upon US businesses to “re-engineer” the workplace. His argument was straightforward. In a nutshell, he argued that US business processes had become “outmoded and obsolete.” More specifically, he argued “Many of our job designs, work flows, control mechanisms, and organizational structures came […]
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Self-Driving Vehicles: Programming vs. Training
Self-driving, driverless or autonomous—whatever you call it, hands-free driving, which was only recently a science fiction fantasy, has arrived. While we may be able to program cars to drive, however, can we train them to drive like humans?
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Skype Translate: Policy and Training Considerations
At Microsoft’s Natural Language Processing (NLP) laboratory, researchers are test-driving a new generation of natural language processing tools that promise to transform work in the coming decades. Among the most widely publicized and exciting breakthroughs is the lab’s much-hyped Skype Translator, which promises to provide real-time translation to collaborators working across languages, such as English, […]
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Training Remote Work Teams
In the past, employers and employees knew each other, worked in the same office and of course, in the same cultural context and time zone. Today, as remote offices, mobile technologies and peer-to-peer recruitment platforms converge. A growing number of businesses have no physical base at all and in some cases, employers and employees never […]
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Training in the Age of the Internet of Things: Part 2
In an earlier blog post on the Internet of Things, we examined what the Internet of Things is, how it will change work, and its broad implications for education and training. This blog post outlines some of the more specific ways in which the Internet of Things promises to transform education and training in the […]
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Your 2015 eLearning Reading List
Staying on top of the latest and greatest thinking on corporate eLearning is important for anyone striving to stay at the top of the game as an eLearning professional. Below you’ll find my top four picks for some of the most recently and about-to-be published books that will keep you on the leading edge of […]
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Small is Beautiful: Bite-Sized eLearning
The days of set times where employees take classes to learn the skills, behaviors, and knowledge to move your company up the ladder to success are quickly fading in the digital age of the 21st century. Meeting the eLearning needs of your company in a rapidly-changing environment where it seems no one has the time […]
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When Training Rage Rears its Ugly Head
Learning professionals everywhere face the same challenge: You put the blood, sweat, and tears into creating training opportunities to better your company’s workforce, but then very few people ever end up actually completing the training. It’s enough to give you training rage. Where does this resistance come from and what can you do to overcome […]
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The Triple Bottom Line, eLearning-Style
You’ve probably heard about the triple bottom line approach in business to focus on more than just the money involved. It’s sometimes explained as social, environmental, and financial aspects of business or as a triple focus on people, planet, and profits. I’d like to suggest that there’s a kind of triple bottom line to pay […]
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Training in the Age of the Internet of Things: Part I
Today, nearly everyone is networked. Indeed, most of us rarely leave home without a mobile device and web access. We’re online all the time and so are our family members. In 2015, parents now track their children’s route home from school remotely and along the way, track missing devices and their human owners. If we […]
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Media Production Part 3: A Broad View
In the first two articles of this series on media production, I focused entirely on video production considerations for eLearning leaders and practitioners. I did this because there’s no way around the fact that video content is probably the single most important channel for rapid eLearning to happen in organizations today. But video isn’t the […]
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Media Production Part 2: eLearning Practitioners
In the first part of this series on media production, I focused on the issues that should be on the radar screen of eLearning leaders concerning the use of video in the eLearning environment. Now it’s time to get down to brass tacks when it comes to video production for eLearning practitioners – the people […]
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