If a Michelin-starred chef hands ingredients through a hatch and serves whatever comes back, is it their dish? It;s served on their plates, in their restaurant, at their prices. I put that to Don Taylor yesterday. He pushed back and I think he’s right.
I posted yesterday about the shift from studio to system in L&D. That post diagnosed the problem; this post attempts to respond to it. If the organisation is already producing learning without you, the answer is not to compete with it, ignore it or drag everything back into the formal offer. The answer is to… Read More Learning Reality: Six Shifts from Studio to System
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
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
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