I am working on updates and will complete by tomorrow but there is too much going on...so stay with me and look for a full report by Thursdsay.
CDH
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Monday Lunch...
So through the social network system here at Learning 2007 I was contacted by a company called Video Arts...they make training and instructional videos that use high value production and comedy to tell corporate business stories. The company was founded by John Cleese (from Monty Python fame).
It sounded interesting so I agreed to meet them for lunch.
Suffice to say, there isn't that much to it...this is an OLD company that is trying to invent itself and find a market in the US Cleese doesn't even own the company anymore and they've been bought several times. They sounded a tad desperate.
I did run into Bob Islip again from Learning Guides...and Alfred Remmits...they are HARD selling at us. I also asked him if he had taken this to P&G directly and came to find out that yes, he has talked to P&G...but only to Linda Coffman...and he had no idea she was leaving P&G. He looked like he got punched in the stomach when I told him.
I did get a good look at their new interface for Learning Guides and its very nice...clean...easier to use. Impressive.
Good lunch...
CDH
It sounded interesting so I agreed to meet them for lunch.
Suffice to say, there isn't that much to it...this is an OLD company that is trying to invent itself and find a market in the US Cleese doesn't even own the company anymore and they've been bought several times. They sounded a tad desperate.
I did run into Bob Islip again from Learning Guides...and Alfred Remmits...they are HARD selling at us. I also asked him if he had taken this to P&G directly and came to find out that yes, he has talked to P&G...but only to Linda Coffman...and he had no idea she was leaving P&G. He looked like he got punched in the stomach when I told him.
I did get a good look at their new interface for Learning Guides and its very nice...clean...easier to use. Impressive.
Good lunch...
CDH
Monday AM Breakout III
The last AM session on Monday took me to a marketing and roll out session from a health care company called Marketing and Implementation: Cheap and Easy. This hospital consortium in Minnesota (Park Nicollet) rolled out a new LMS and the three women who presented managed the rollout.
First off, they were totally full of energy, at ease as presenters and very happy to be there. It's not so much that ideas for their rollout were so creative (they did giveaways and meetings with managers and some local marketing) but it was their attitude about it that I think made their work successful.
They had a total eye and ear towards marketing and communications that transcended their work as learning managers.
They also had a cool giveaway...a mouse pad with inserts that were standard size cards explaining how to use their LMS and when changes were made or updates to training plans happened, they could just print a new insert.
It really showed me how much more we can do in our own area and how we may really need to push back on communication limitations to reach our users.
Very impressive work by these women.
More later,
CDH
First off, they were totally full of energy, at ease as presenters and very happy to be there. It's not so much that ideas for their rollout were so creative (they did giveaways and meetings with managers and some local marketing) but it was their attitude about it that I think made their work successful.
They had a total eye and ear towards marketing and communications that transcended their work as learning managers.
They also had a cool giveaway...a mouse pad with inserts that were standard size cards explaining how to use their LMS and when changes were made or updates to training plans happened, they could just print a new insert.
It really showed me how much more we can do in our own area and how we may really need to push back on communication limitations to reach our users.
Very impressive work by these women.
More later,
CDH
Monday AM Breakout II
I bailed early on Linda's presentation/discussion crashed the Supplier discussion. Missed some of the business updates but here are some trends highlights:
--Significant movement with talent in the industry...many jumping from one competitor to another.
--Consolidation of the industry has likely peaked for now.
--The outsourcing curve has also peaked...and some companies are bringing outsourced services back in house. Expect there to still be a balance between outsourcing and maintaining services in house.
--Offshore development continues to wane as new tools and local companies become more price competitive in addition to being faster and better at customized development.
One key message we received in this session is that suppliers need to be BRAVE. We need to push our own companies towards better methods of delivery and fight the internal and external battle to widget everything. One new trend discussed in this session is that there isn't much that's exciting that is coming from suppliers in the industry...either in tools or services.
Be BRAVE. That's an important message.
Good session,
CDH
--Significant movement with talent in the industry...many jumping from one competitor to another.
--Consolidation of the industry has likely peaked for now.
--The outsourcing curve has also peaked...and some companies are bringing outsourced services back in house. Expect there to still be a balance between outsourcing and maintaining services in house.
--Offshore development continues to wane as new tools and local companies become more price competitive in addition to being faster and better at customized development.
One key message we received in this session is that suppliers need to be BRAVE. We need to push our own companies towards better methods of delivery and fight the internal and external battle to widget everything. One new trend discussed in this session is that there isn't much that's exciting that is coming from suppliers in the industry...either in tools or services.
Be BRAVE. That's an important message.
Good session,
CDH
Monday, October 22, 2007
Monday AM Breakout I
Went to Linda Coffman's (from P&G) session on learning challenges in the consumer products environment. Ran into Bob Islip from Learning Guides there...he is a selling machine.
Linda co-presented with someone from SC Johnson and Nike. It was not terribly excited and didn't cover much new ground, though I did find out that P&G is using some new tools like Second Life with external marketing uses.
One thing I realized from this session is that we, as the HP Ed services partner with P&G, now have no idea what P&G is doing in many cases witgh respct to learning outside of the sandbox where we play. Linda is leaving P&G in December and no one is really taking up her work and her causes and I am not even sure who will manage P&G's relationship with events like this and the Masie Center.
This should be addressed.
More to come,
CDH
Linda co-presented with someone from SC Johnson and Nike. It was not terribly excited and didn't cover much new ground, though I did find out that P&G is using some new tools like Second Life with external marketing uses.
One thing I realized from this session is that we, as the HP Ed services partner with P&G, now have no idea what P&G is doing in many cases witgh respct to learning outside of the sandbox where we play. Linda is leaving P&G in December and no one is really taking up her work and her causes and I am not even sure who will manage P&G's relationship with events like this and the Masie Center.
This should be addressed.
More to come,
CDH
Monday Morning General Session Part II
The usual fineries of the conference start to build here. Elliot is in rare form and does a nice job laying out the theme of the conference, "Learning Changes."
Lots of talk about things like the real impact of new gaming technology, new learning technology (like mobile learning, which seems to be a huge opportunity) and the large impact of the aging workforce, especially in North America with the baby boomers.
There are 2100 folks here from places as diverse as the CIA and Veterans Adminstration, power companies, leaders like Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Johnson and Johnson and international companies like Dubai Airlines, the BBC, etc.
The first keynote is from Dan Pink, a noted author (best seller) of several books...he has a new one, " A Whole New Mind," which is based on the idea that the future world will be ruled by the right brain thinkers...the creatives and those tune to design and how that will change the world. His presentation was all of 6 minutes...short and sweet.
Next up is Jane McGonical, who is with the Institute of the Future. She spoke on gaming in an alternate reality...she created the World Without Oil game that was played in real time, over 32 days using current technology. The idea is that you can role play scenarios in a game situation and enable users to run their own game.
More on this later but I found this very provocative.
Jane is a 30 year old Ph.D. from Cal-Berkely who's real job is that of a game designer for Microsoft, etc.
CDH
Lots of talk about things like the real impact of new gaming technology, new learning technology (like mobile learning, which seems to be a huge opportunity) and the large impact of the aging workforce, especially in North America with the baby boomers.
There are 2100 folks here from places as diverse as the CIA and Veterans Adminstration, power companies, leaders like Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Johnson and Johnson and international companies like Dubai Airlines, the BBC, etc.
The first keynote is from Dan Pink, a noted author (best seller) of several books...he has a new one, " A Whole New Mind," which is based on the idea that the future world will be ruled by the right brain thinkers...the creatives and those tune to design and how that will change the world. His presentation was all of 6 minutes...short and sweet.
Next up is Jane McGonical, who is with the Institute of the Future. She spoke on gaming in an alternate reality...she created the World Without Oil game that was played in real time, over 32 days using current technology. The idea is that you can role play scenarios in a game situation and enable users to run their own game.
More on this later but I found this very provocative.
Jane is a 30 year old Ph.D. from Cal-Berkely who's real job is that of a game designer for Microsoft, etc.
CDH
Monday Morning General Session
Okay, first of all, 8 AM for the START of a general session is WAY too early...especially when I have a 20 minute drive.
So I got here at 8:05...not bad. The air temperature at 8:05 from the main screen in the Azera was 80 degrees...and very humid. My glasses fogged up fully as soon as the car door opened.
More later,
CDH
So I got here at 8:05...not bad. The air temperature at 8:05 from the main screen in the Azera was 80 degrees...and very humid. My glasses fogged up fully as soon as the car door opened.
More later,
CDH
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