Mike Prokopeak is vice president and editor in chief for Human Capital Media (HCM), an integrated information services and market-intelligence company focused on the business of human capital management and workforce development. In his role, he leads a team to create content for the award-winning Chief Learning Officer, Talent Economy, and Workforce magazines and their … [Read more...]
Capacity and Leadership: How Does Your Organization Stack Up?
Capacity and leadership are two of the five domains around which we built the Learning Business Maturity Model. In our experience, capacity—the human resources and technology that can be put against devising and executing a strategy—is an area critical to the success of a learning and education business. In our experience too, capacity is an area where what’s available often … [Read more...]
Strategizing for Learning with CLO James Young of SCUP
As current chief learning officer (CLO) at the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), Jim Young describes himself as chief strategist—the owner of the vision for change at the organization. He also views learning as a “timeless imperative” and, in his role, is focused on choice architecture because he knows the powerful impact this can have on learning. In this … [Read more...]
Beyond “Learning as Product” with Diane Simmons of AAD
In an industry where the terms association and lifelong learning should be synonymous with each other, there is often a major disconnect between the two. Members are looking to their associations for the necessary knowledge and lifelong learning opportunities they need in order to succeed yet research from our latest Association Learning + Technology report revealed that … [Read more...]
Jailbreaking the Degree with Kelly Palmer of Degreed
With all that the web has enabled, there are now countless ways in which each of us is going about learning on a day-to-day basis. There is also increasing evidence that this is incredibly important and perhaps deserves the same type of recognition as some of the traditional markers in education, such as degrees. Kelly Palmer is the recently appointed chief learning officer … [Read more...]
The Chief Learning Market Officer
A while back I asked the question "Who's Your Chief Learning Officer?" and offered my own brief description of that position as: Someone who is empowered to make strategic decisions and see that they get implemented? (Chief) Someone who thinks beyond educational events and training to consider the full richness and complexity of knowledge management and capability building … [Read more...]