Learning's Big Data Problem: Measuring & Analyzing Impact

Anthony Grullon must deal with a larger number of obstacles and fears than hourly or salaried employees, but the payoff may be far greater.

We all know that End User Adoption is an important area of focus in your SharePoint project. In this session we will take a closer look at the End User Adoption work stream and the associated roles, responsibilities, and tasks for the project plan. We will also review case studies to demonstrate how these differ based on the size of the project and the specific needs of the organization. You’ll walk away from this session with a tactical formula you can follow to create your end user adoption strategy and templates to support the process.

1. The document is a newsletter from McKinsey Quarterly covering various topics related to business and economics. 2. It discusses advances in lean production techniques and how technology, psychology, and analytics could further improve operations over the next 50 years. 3. It also covers topics like the future of the jewelry industry, scaling excellence within organizations, the potential of industrial robots, and the growth of digital payments in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The document provides information on a marketing research program and strategy plan for a proposed Centre of Excellence in Business Analytics at BCIT. It outlines two phases of marketing research: secondary research on competitor programs and trends, and qualitative research via key informant interviews. It identifies top competitors and summarizes their programs. It then provides a full marketing strategy plan for the Centre, including recommendations, target markets, organization details, situational analysis, marketing objectives and tools. The overarching goal is to establish a unique brand for the Centre and attract industry sponsors and students.

The document provides tips for successfully implementing an information management program, including gaining executive support, establishing governance policies and procedures, defining organizational roles and an implementation model, training stakeholders on changes, and recognizing champions to drive adoption. Key steps are to keep policies and procedures simple, assign data owners, use a proven change management methodology with executive participation, and leverage innovative communication methods to maintain momentum.

Learning and development professionals and business leaders have come to realize data-driven strategies effectively drive learning and business outcomes. But what does data-driven learning really mean to the learners and what happens when they are empowered to take the lead in learning strategy and execution? Join this TICE Virtual session, as Kelly Siegel, vice president and chief talent officer of Continental Western Group, shares her story of the creation of underwriter development paths – A process driven by learner engagement and representative of significant cultural shift in two related organizations.

To Invest or Not to Invest..Is the question With limited time, money and resources at their disposal, deciding whether or not to invest money in information technology can be tough for healthcare organizations. Couple this with the fact that many IT projects have failed to deliver on their promises, has left business leaders skeptical of investments in technology. IT professionals are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the value of technology to the organizations they support. This presentation provides a value-based, outcomes-driven approach to justify investments in healthIT. Investing in technology shouldn't be a leap of faith. Technology is an enabler. It must be beneficial and functional to the intended user. Healthcare organizations that make technology decisions without focusing on outcomes find themselves regretting their decisions in the long run. Proper research and planning is critical in ensuring that information technology delivers value to patients, providers and healthcare organizations.

Improving the content and experience for agents reduces call time and cuts cost CSI's Blaine Kyllo and BC Hydro's Ken Bell share the successful process of merging several of BC Hydro’s internal information repositories for frontline agents into one central Knowledge Centre. This case study was presented at E Source Forum 2018 as part of a panel on customer experience called Back to CX Basics: Getting Great at What Matters Most.

Communication Strategies to Keep Employees Engaged and Informed During a Chronic Crisis View the webinar here: https://youtu.be/2frLDn5C_zs As the new normal continues to evolve, companies are being challenged daily to keep employees engaged and informed while supporting their business operations. Throughout the pandemic, employees have demonstrated their adaptability in the face of remote working, unanticipated childcare needs, furloughs, and isolation. Many employers are realizing that effective employee communication is the key. Join Mad*Pow Founder and Chief Experience Officer Amy Heymans and Beth Clauss, President, Small Potatoes Communications, to learn how they have helped clients engage their employees, strengthen their company culture and create a unified and informed employee community. The webinar will cover how organizations can create an employee communications strategy that helps employees weather the unique circumstances of a long-term, ongoing crisis, while navigating the treacherous waters of promoting productivity and profits during a pandemic.

Badgeville Webinar hosted on March 17th 2016. Hosted by Karen Hsu, VP of Marketing at Badgeville and Luiz Benitez, Product Management Leader at IBM Connections.

Star Software creates custom calendar software programs for businesses to use as promotional tools. It faces challenges from its seasonal business and cash flow issues. This marketing plan aims to increase profits 10% annually by diversifying products and customers. Objectives include surveying current customers, developing non-seasonal products, and achieving 50% growth in profits over 5 years, half from new customers and off-season products. The plan identifies strengths in customization and customer service, weaknesses in seasonality and reliance on reorder business, opportunities in technology and direct marketing, and threats from competition and single sourcing.

Too often SharePoint projects focus on deploying sites without planning for the user adoption and training that comes after, and as a result, the solution’s momentum fizzles and falls short of its potential once the project ends. In this presentation, I share my strategies and insights for designing an effective end-user adoption and training strategy that you can use in your projects to help your users thrive.

The Innovation Center at Harvard Business School aims to equip business leaders with insights and tools to approach innovation strategically. It does this through four categories: strategy, organization, climate, and process. The Center draws on experts to challenge leaders to consider new ways of organizing, operating, and managing in addition to new products and services. It provides online portals, blended learning guides, and consultation services to support organizations in developing innovation capabilities.

Does your approach to Performance Management ‘Sing’ or ‘Sting’? How to focus on practices that create meritocracies, and avoid being seduced by the technology. http://www.pivotsoftware.com/ebook2/

This document describes the implementation of a Kanban system at a large energy company to achieve enterprise agility. It discusses how the company lacked process transparency, had a waterfall development approach, and IT was seen as unresponsive by the business. Kanban practices like visualization, limiting work-in-progress, and collaborative improvement were used. This reduced the backlog from 800 to 350 items within 4 months while new requests remained the same, improving productivity. The key lessons learned were to take an incremental approach to change, focus on shifting mindsets, and collaborate at all levels to sustain transformations.

This document provides an overview of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), a goal-setting framework used by teams and individuals to set ambitious and measurable goals. It discusses why OKRs are useful for focusing efforts, ensuring strategy execution, and creating engagement around goals. The document outlines best practices for using OKRs, including differentiating objectives from key results, deploying OKRs at different company levels, and the seven essentials of effective OKR implementation.

This document discusses the importance of goals and goal management in achieving operational excellence. It outlines some key challenges companies face in goal alignment and engagement. It then provides a 7 step approach to operational excellence through accountability, clarity, alignment, engagement, execution, agility and aspiration. High performing companies are described as having goals that are open, transparent, aspirational, involve frequent check-ins and progress-based. The concept of "Goal Science" and tools for connected, supported, progress-based and adaptable goals are presented.

You’ve found the perfect technology solution that meets all of your L&D analytics needs, but there’s one looming challenge—gaining executive approval. We’ve all been there. However, it’s easier than you might think. Hear firsthand from someone who’s been there and made it happen. In this webinar, Andy Webb, director of training at Applied Industrial Technologies, shares his experience and helps you: • Understand leadership’s needs and motivations. • Recognize financial metrics and KPIs to frame your learning program in a language leadership understands. • Better engage leadership throughout your LRS or L&D initiative.

One of the biggest challenges of our times is the explosion in the quantity and immediacy of the information available through the internet. This problem of plenty, challenges the L&D to adapt : To use this freely available information to meet the organisational Learning requirements.Manage the information and cognitive overload at the organisational and personal level for learners.Extract and package information in a manner that is relevant, timely and concise.

VIEW THE WEBINAR RECORDING: The launch presentation of our 2014 annual industry Benchmark study, 'Modernising Learning: Delivering Results' - now available to download along with the launch webinar recording and a host of other resources: http://towardsmaturity.org/2014benchmark The eBook is available for FREE thanks to the support of the Towards Maturity Ambassadors: http://towardsmaturity.org/ambassadors

Big data is a big part of the disruption hitting this market, but not in the way most people think. It's not replacing the data warehouse, but it is changing the technology stack. It doesn't eliminate data management, but it does redefine enterprise data architecture. Big data is and isn't many things. It's important to understand which information uses are well supported and which have yet to be addressed. Otherwise you risk replacing one set of problems with another. Come to this session to hear some observations on what big data is, isn't and aspires to be. A video is available, starts at 1:03 into this Strata online event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLsHI1ZglKw

Access to webinar recording here: http://go.lambdasolutions.net/webinar-growing-trend-of-open-source-learning Whether it’s to inform, to improve, to change—or a combination of these factors, training must have measurable outcomes that contribute to larger organizational goals. Good training evaluation techniques identify and measure the impact of learning on job performance and ultimately, organization-wide business results. When it comes to measuring eLearning, Donald Kirkpatrick’s Four Level of Evaluation model is one of the most widely used and respected worldwide. Co-hosted by Paula Yunker, with 30+ years of instructional design experience and certification in Kirkpatricks Four Levels Evaluation—this webinar will explore why learning evaluation is an important component of any training program and how you can measure the application of learning beyond the learning event itself. We’ll discuss how to implement learning evaluation that’s practical and provides value but isn’t complicated, time consuming or expensive. Paula will also share her favorite learning evaluation resources after the webinar! Check out the slides to learn more about: - Why learning evaluation is critical for business results - Kirkpatrick’s four levels of evaluation explained - Aligning learning to organizational goals - Typical challenges implementing evaluation in an organization - Practical strategies for implementing learning evaluation - Our favorite learning evaluation resources

WebGL is an API for accessing the GPU from JavaScript to perform graphics and data visualization. It can be used for exploratory visualizations, real-time data analysis, scientific visualization, and data art. WebGL works by using JavaScript to compile GLSL shaders that run on the GPU. Shaders are programs that run on the GPU and are written in GLSL, a C-like language made for graphics with built-in functions. An example application is the Hopf fibration, which maps points on a 3D sphere to circles on a 4D sphere using WebGL.

The Data & Insight Leaders Masterclass will showcase a series of expert insights from industry leaders who will share their latest thinking on the big issues, industry trends and strategies that are shaping the ‘Data & Insight’ landscape. The masterclass will provide delegates with a unique learning experience through a series of engaging roundtable sessions that will fuel knowledge share and discussion. #DLManc17

This document summarizes a presentation on equipping learning and development (L&D) teams to lead in the future. It discusses the challenges L&D faces from trends like globalization, technology changes, and new skills needs. Top performing L&D teams align closely to business needs, support continuous learning, leverage technology, use data to drive decisions, and focus on building priority skills. An example is given of how Barnardo's transformed its L&D approach from classroom-only to a mix of methods including social and informal learning to better meet needs, engage learners, and improve business outcomes. The document encourages attendees to consider what their L&D team could do differently to build capabilities.

If you’re looking to make a positive impact to your company's success, you should implement modern pay practices. Findings from the 2017 PayScale Compensation Best Practices Report indicated a strong correlation between modern pay practices and business success. Top-performing companies view pay as an ongoing practice and not an annual event. Compensation is also a key part of their culture and these companies communicate their pay practices clearly. Do you want to know more about how top-performing companies manage compensation? Join PayScale’s Mykkah Herner and Camie Bailey to learn what top-performing companies are doing around pay: -Developing a market strategy and keeping it current -Extending and reinforcing your culture with compensation -Having effective pay conversations

Despite Learning measurement frameworks like Kirkpatrick and Philips ROI that have been around for so many years, defining meaningful measures still continues to be a big challenge for L&D. ‘E’ has become the most ignored in ADDIE. We talk to an experienced panel about the unsatisfactory current state and what needs to be done to improve the importance, visibility and value of measuring Learning effectiveness in the real world. We focus on how to collect actionable insights about learning effectiveness: not only seeking to answer, did learning achieve the desired or intended result, but also why/why not.