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FROM CONTENT TO CURATION

Ben Betts and Nigel Paine

Businesses today increasingly turn to human capital—the ability of their employees to problem solve and create novel solutions—to distinguish themselves in the marketplace. But, how can we build training materials rapidly enough to catch up with the pace of organizational change? How can we teach a standardized curriculum when the work isn’t standard? We can’t standardize our way out of these problems, and so-called rapid tools can only speed up the process so much. What we need is a revolution.

The Content Conundrum

The commercial reality of teaching formal curriculums to thousands of people has caused a natural shift toward teaching standardized content. This model, which has been with ...

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