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 immersed in the former
- CLO wants to ensure people are smart ... CIO wants to ensure people are connected and able to do their jobs efficiently and effectively
- Employees don't care where content, SME's or knowledge resides in the organization - they just want to consume or contribute to it quickly and efficiently (and both the CLO and CIO are critical stakeholders in this type of scenario)
