714 Creating a Learning Innovation Lab: Tips for Fostering Different Thinking
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Friday, October 26
Emerging Tech
Antigua A
Many L&D teams and organizations suffer from a lack of innovation and different thinking. They can easily become stagnant, always looking at their world at the LMS level with no thoughts about the art of the possible. But innovative thinking can drive up engagement and significantly enhance the learning experience. So how can you increase it at your organization?
In this session, you will find out how a learning innovation lab can help you do just that, and you’ll learn from a year’s worth of experience gained at McKinsey as it built up its first lab of this kind. You’ll uncover what comprises a learning innovation lab and what benefits this incredible opportunity can offer in an L&D organization. You’ll then discuss how to foster healthy disruption in a climate of stagnation and norms, what pitfalls to avoid in forming a lab, and what areas of innovation are best suited for a lab’s R&D efforts.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to start an innovation lab in your organization
- What pitfalls to avoid
- Where to focus your R&D efforts
- The right composition of a lab’s structure
- How to “fail fast”
- What it means to challenge conventional thinking
- The optimal way to experiment with new technologies
- What innovation is and isn’t
Audience:
Designers, developers, managers, and senior leaders (directors, VP, CLO, executive, etc.).
Technology discussed in this session:
Augmented reality, virtual reality, sandbox servers, APIs, personalization, machine learning, AI, content curation, content relevancy, and mobile app development.
Duncan Larkin
Digital Learning Innovation Manager
McKinsey & Company
Duncan Larkin is the head of the digital learning innovation team at McKinsey & Company. He is a passionate advocate for simple, elegant, and transformative solutions that push the boundaries of innovation and put the learner first. Duncan is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point and the author of two books.
Nicholas Pappas
Digital Learning Innovation R&D Lead
McKinsey and Company
Nicholas Pappas is the digital learning innovation R&D lead for McKinsey and Company. He is responsible for running the research and experimentation of digital learning technology to surface and develop relevant use-cases that significantly enhance the learning experience. Prior to joining McKinsey, he served as the director of technology for SpotMe, a mobile event app startup.
James Pritchard
Digital Learning Innovation Manager
McKinsey & Company
James Pritchard, the digital learning innovation manager at McKinsey & Company, has led the custom development of McKinsey’s personalized learning journey portal and served as a product owner and content developer. James holds an MFA in fiction writing from New York University and a BS in management science and engineering from Stanford University.