It reasons to stand that if an organization wants to truly build a connected and collaborative culture (moving from command and control to cultivate and coordinate as Malone has taught us) the CIO and CLO need to become strategic partners. I don’t necessarily care where the CLO reports into per se, but I do suggest these two individuals seek out a union not dissimilar to John and Yoko. Why? Training is an event thinking lends itself to classic ID and a classroom/eLearning model only – CIO doesn’t really care about this Learning is a connected, collaborative and thus continuous process is the merging of formal learning with informal/social learning with all social computing applications – CIO is definitely interested in the latter and the CLO is
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I believe the traditional corporate university, or that of the old-fashioned Learning & Development Team, will morph itself into becoming a ‘Collaboration and Learning’ office of some sort in the not so distant future. That is, the way in which an organization operates in terms of formal, informal and social learning, connection, exchange, collaboration, and ‘tech’ applications/offerings will see hybrid or hub and spoke partnerships between those that currently own the collaboration technologies with those that own formal and informal learning. To prepare for the inevitable, there will be the necessary change requirement to update roles in the organization. (combined or not) I’ve been following with interest the recent and not-so-recent musings concerning this concept via Harold Jarche, Michael Hanley, Dave Wilkins and Jay Cross (here too for another from Jay Cross). Through
Through the introduction of Web 2.0 tools and applications in the organization, we arguably have seen both a positive uptake by employees, and correlated increases of collaboration. What I find interesting, however, is that we continue to launch new tools and applications (think Moore’s law here) without necessarily giving thought towards a common, unified and/or federated interface for the end user. Imagine if you will, in the learning space specifically, that every time a new eLearning course was developed, that a new portal, system or application was also introduced where the employee had to log into to access the actual course. This is a zany example of course, but the point is as we continue to introduce new Web, Learning, Enteprise 2.0 tools and applications into