Learning Reality

TV used to be built around exclusivity. Stars, studios, big budgets, broadcast slots, production crews and commissioning decisions. If you wanted to appear on screen, someone had to let you in. Now much of TV is reality-driven. People spend more time watching other people live, compete, react, explain, perform and document themselves in entertaining ways.… Read More Learning Reality

Comedic interludes

I know I get stuff wrong. When I write something like the 50 more Big Ideas for example, I ‘know’ some people will be looking at it and criticising, challenging and probably laughing. As Seth Godin so brilliantly put this week, if people aren’t laughing behind your back: …it’s possible you’re not being bold enough,… Read More Comedic interludes

Building space

This week has been interesting. Delivery and design, coupled with an urgent tender activity. We often forget to build space into our calendars for urgency; this came up in a conversation when I realised that being busy is meaningless if it’s just making more stuff which doesn’t move you commercially. I’m not sure what this… Read More Building space

Catalogue or Capability

I was chairing a Learning Technologies webinar last week (please come along – they’re good fun) and a question was asked by the presenters: How much of your current learning catalogue do you think gets used? Answers ranged from 10% to 80%. One person didn’t know; someone else said 80%. Others landed at 40% and… Read More Catalogue or Capability

You and AI

Public sector buyers are starting to ask a different question in tenders. Not just what will you deliver, but how was this bid produced? Specifically, was AI used, how was it used, and what checks were applied? That brings the process behind the submission into scope. The issue is not whether suppliers use AI –… Read More You and AI