The way people, technology and learning meet is continually changing, moving toward increases in fidelity, convenience, collaboration, specificity and confluence. This is a year of opportunity for chief learning officers to assess their learning strategy in the context of a constantly evolving and changing business environment. The challenges for today?s CLOs are more complex than ever: They are required not only to demonstrate clear value and business relevance for their learning strategy on a global stage, but also their ability to link learning and performance programs directly to the goals of their organization, despite constraints in time, budget and talent. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary skills on the part of our CLOs as they creatively balance the demand for knowledge and information against the realities of changing content and instructional design, disappearing content expertise, disruptive technologies, demand for on-the-job proficiency and an increasingly dispersed workforce with less tolerance for off-the-job formal learning. Read More »

The debate of mobile security has been raging for several years now. While Android has been successful in becoming the numero uno mobile operating system, it is no surprise that it is also the more vulnerable compared to closed systems such as iOS. You can read what the chairman of TrendMicro had to say about vulnerability of Android here. However, this does not mean that things will not improve for Android from the point of view of reducing vulnerability. Through a combination of improved procedures for vetting Android apps and plugging security vulnerabilities in future releases, Android will be able to close the security gap with iPhone. Read More »