[The following post was originally published as an article in the August 2010 edition of Chief Learning Officer magazine.] The terms “formal” and “informal” learning have become a part of the language of the learning industry. But if you ask learning industry folks what these terms mean, you get an interesting array of answers that [...]
[Author's Note: This post first appeared as an article in the Dec 09/Jan 10 issue of IHRIM.link, a publication of the International Association for Human Resource Information Management. ] If you’ve spent any time involved in efforts to select and deploy enterprise technology, it will not come as news to you that technology implementation is [...]
We had an opportunity to talk recently with Sundar Nagarathnam, VP of Education Services at NetApp, which was recently named number 1 in Fortune magazine’s list of “100 Best Companies to Work for.” Our focus was not ‘what’ his team has accomplished. This has been fairly well chronicled in CLO Magazine’s October feature. Instead, we [...]
Let’s face it, governance is not a sexy concept. If your organization decides to take on a governance initiative and you’re not the one crafting it, your first reaction is likely to be a groan. You no doubt envision more rules, more hoops to jump through, less autonomy and a strong possibility that headquarters will [...]
I have to admit that when the idea of starting a new learning consulting company came up, my first reaction was…Um, no. The voice in my head that tells me whether a wonderful-sounding idea will successfully translate into reality said, That’s dumb.