The merging of KM and LM
Part of Synapsys' core philosophy is that we'll see in the next 10 to 15 years a coming together of Knowledge Management and Learning/training initiatives. There are a number of pressures driving this, many stem from the need to see actual, tangible changes in behaviour as a result of either type of initiative.
It's no longer adequate to measure how many courses are run, how many eLearning pages are clicked... What matters is how people change what they are doing as a result of the learning. Similarly, developing a knowledge repository on the intranet is meaningless if people don't know how to access the information, don't trust it, or it's not perceived as relevant to their jobs.
This focus on seeing change happen leads to a focus on questions such as:
How can we make information and learning relevant to people's work?
How can we serve it up when they need?
How can we contextualise it to suit the work at hand?
The answers to these questions lie in the integration of KM and LM initiatives - Synapsys's core business. These sentiments are starting to be echoed in the broader eLearnign community. See for example this article from Brandon Hall:
http://www.brandonhall.com/public/whitepapers/lmkm/
Posted by Phil Garing at March 23, 2005 10:38 AM
