Recently I saw Julie and Julia which not only inspired me to write in my blog more (ok, you can stop screaming: No! I can’t take anymore!), it inspired me to channel Julia Child for this post.
Here’s some more great information from McKinsey and Company gathered by Michael Chui. Thanks Michael–well done! This article and interactive compares their recent research related to businesses and Web 2.0 tools and technologies. I encourage you to puruse the entire interactive. For my purposes, I’ll share some snapshots of the top 6 tools and technologies:
Tools/Tech Companies Are Using Internally | Top Tools/Tech to Businesses w/in Companies
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Regarding graphic at right….what’s interesting is that when you compare the Top 6 Technologies & Tools used for training and the Top 6 Key Technologies & Tools for Businesses it shows some wide disparity.
It’s led me to ask some questions. Within the sample of participants in this research, is video (Presuming video means recorded webinars or Captivate modules.–Michael can you help?) being used because it’s easier and faster to create or because business leaders just view video as the best modality to train their folks? If blogs and social networking are seen as the most important technologies and tools to the businesses surveyed…do the leaders of these same businesses view blogs and social networking as viable learning tools?
Understanding the prevalence of training tools and technologies is valuable. It’s been my experience that business partners tend to think in terms of tools driving learning when it really is about creating and implementing a viable, results-centered learning strategy that leverage the tools & technology the learners use to gather knowledge, learn, develop, and foster collaboration. If you design and implement learning…you need to be an ethnographer of sorts. What does the learner use in their world?
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What Can Design Strategy Look Like
From this research, among the businesses surveyed, it appear blogs and social networking are of high importance. This led me to think about some practical design applications focused on long-term impact. Rather than create some type of elaborate eLearning course…why not have the lead SME create a blog that covers what would have been the course objectives? The blog will actually become the “psuedo-course” that users can access and search much, much easier. Rather than create some type of elaborate blended learning curriculum that ties up valuable dollars in production when it doesn’t have to…why not have the management team and power users create a network of linked blogs and wikis that explain and demonstrate what would have been the performance goals within the curriculum? Hope these morsels are…wait for it….food for thought. Bon Appetit!
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These principles hold true in graphic facilitation work…a technique I use to better depict issues, relationships and ideas during business strategy development and business planning. It’s real time.
Thanks Claudia. It’s great to hear there is overlap in many fields. Facilitating business strategy and planning through visualizations sounds very useful and interesting.
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