Editor’s note: Civil servants have changed the way they work to save £10 billion for the taxpayer, according to the head of the Civil Service. Interesting to see how civil servants are being trained in new skills such as commercial awareness and project management skills.
Editor’s note: Ken Walsh writes about his new book that looks at how deep ethnographic research of voters helped Obama to a second term of president of the US.
Editor’s note: In a study looking at over a thousand people using mobile devices in the street, Steven Hoober found that about 75% of people’s interactions with a smartphone were managed with a single thumb. Do you design for that kind of interaction?
Editor’s note: Stacey Harris delves into the issues of innovation and sustainability and how organisations can reimagine the way they operate in order to become more innovative. Warning: links to article that says worker productivity is up – my other curated link today says the opposite.
Editor’s note: Analysis of the impact of technology on productivity. This quote sums up the piece: ‘At a time when digital technology has been exalted to a position of almost religious authority, productivity growth has fallen—not just in the United States but in other advanced nations, too.’
Editor’s note: A wide-ranging list but some nuggets in here. It’s an infographic so links aren’t clickable.
Editor’s note: Insights into how a tech company with its own collaboration tool – Sharepoint – is using its new collaboration tool – Yammer. To quote: ‘Those teams that are more focused on the conversations lean toward Yammer groups. Increasingly, we are providing options of embedding Yammer feeds into SharePoint sites for people that want a mixture of the two.’
Editor’s note: Ahead of today’s #chat2lrn Twitter chat on what L&D can learn from marketing, the #chat2lrn crew share some pre-reading and useful links.
Editor’s note: A look at McKinsey’s “Disruptive Dozen” technologies. Note the impact of automating knowledge work.
Editor’s note: ‘Fluent’, TED-style talks on video are good for learning. Here’s how. Thanks to Judith Christian-Carter for sharing.
Editor’s note: The case for and against the use of learning objectives as a part of learning delivery.
Editor’s note: Great resource on big data including a range of videos covering topics such as crowd sourcing and personal data.
Editor’s note: Analyst Josh Bersin looks at the growing corporate training market and where the investment is training is being spent.
Editor’s note: This OECD blog post defines NEETs and provides some links to related research and resources.
Editor’s note: The tension in an exams-based approach to teaching versus open sharing of information on social networks. The answer it seems is to monitor the networks for cheating. . .