Axonify, an innovator in the corporatelearning space, announced today the introduction of Axonify DiscoveryZone, agroundbreaking component of its Employee Knowledge Platform that will changethe way organizations and employees create, present, curate, and accessvaluable content. DiscoveryZone provides employees with two-click, 10-secondaccess to relevant knowledge in order to drive desired job actions and improvebusiness performance.
In the modern workplace, employees constantlyshare informal learning and information, which is not being captured in ameaningful or repeatable way. When employees retire or move to another team,they take valuable knowledge with them. This prevents other employees fromquickly and easily accessing it, creating a knowledge problem in theorganization. As the pace of business continues to accelerate, the ability todeliver relevant information to workers on-demand is emerging as a criticaldifferentiator. When employees have the information they need at theirfingertips, they can be more effective and successful at their jobs, which, inturn, drives performance.
Recently, Axonify introduced the world’sfirst employee knowledge platform—an award-winning solution built with thefundamentals of brain science, adaptive learning, gamification, microlearning,and knowledge-on-demand at its core. With the addition of DiscoveryZone,Axonify is challenging long-held thinking around management of digital content(knowledge) in the workplace, which has historically been focused on a closelycontrolled, “store and manage” model that ultimately leads to a digitalgraveyard of hard-to-find, irrelevant content. Unlike enterprise wikis andintranets that can grow into jungles full of dated and stale information,DiscoveryZone meets the needs of today’s learner, providing a socialenvironment with smart search capabilities and instant access to relevant,crowdsourced, and rated content where peer recognition and reputation buildingis built in.
Axonify DiscoveryZone is a dynamic repositoryof knowledge that is populated by subject matter experts and crowdsourced bythe employee community. It challenges organizations to rethink their enterpriseknowledge strategy, giving them the ability to capture the rich availableresources of knowledge and expertise within their organization, and to makeinformation available at the exact moment employees and leaders need it fortheir jobs. This, in turn, allows employees to get the knowledge they need toperform at their best, which has a significant and measurable impact onbusiness results.
“We developed DiscoveryZone becauseorganizations are struggling to unlock the full potential of their greatestasset—the collective knowledge of their employees,” said Axonify president andCEO Carol Leaman. “Knowledge-on-demand has a dramatic impact on workplaceeffectiveness, and our mission is to make instant access to the best internalresources a reality so employees can spend less time searching for informationand ‘rebuilding the wheel,’ and more time actually being productive. It’s themost powerful solution out there for helping businesses solve challengesrelated to incorrect or insufficient knowledge permeating their workforce.”
AxonifyDiscoveryZone builds a bridge between experts, learning professionals, andemployees that facilitates knowledge exchange and sharing. Employees getinstant access to the right information they need to do their jobs, instead ofsearching externally for information that likely doesn’t align with corporatestandards. It is a gamified, easy-to-use, integrated community and resourcelibrary designed for employees to:
- Access relevant reference materials, assets, and tools at the moment they need it (desktop, mobile app, or POS)
- Contribute valuable knowledge and information through a variety of media including video, images, PDF, and text
- Crowdsource topics with colleagues, and rate each other’s contributions
- Request new content according to job needs
- Receive recognition for their contributions to DiscoveryZone
Researchfirm Gartner predicts that by 2018, more than 80 percent of organizations willleverage user-generated content as part of their corporate learning strategy.The dynamics of content generation have shifted in the digital workplace, butmanaging content remains a priority for most organizations. As enterprisecontent continues to expand, it cannot be dealt with using a rote “contain andmanage” approach. Organizations need solutions that provide insight andintelligence, enabling enterprises to leverage content to meet their individualneeds.
“The digital workplace underlines afundamental change in thinking about content—that there is no place wherecontent is not generated or used in the enterprise,” said expert Bob Mosher. “In otherwords, it isn’t enough to manage content; digital business depends onexploiting content to advance its objectives.”
AboutAxonify
Axonify is pushing beyond the boundaries ofeLearning with the introduction of the world’s first Employee KnowledgePlatform. Powerhouse brands like Walmart, Toyota, and Johnson & Johnson areleveraging the Axonify platform to fuel their employees with the knowledge theyneed to be successful on the job. Built with the fundamentals of brain science,adaptive learning, gamification, microlearning, and knowledge-on-demand at itscore, the award-winning Axonify Employee Knowledge Platform is proven toencourage employees to take the right actions—ultimately driving businessoutcomes that increase revenue or decrease expenses. Through its uniqueanalytics and reporting capabilities, Axonify is the only solution that allowsorganizations to finally tie the impact of employee knowledge to behaviorchange to bottom line results. Axonify: Fuel your people + power yourorganization. Learn more at axonify.com.
