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Corporate training is a $60 billion dollar industry and growing as the economy recovers.  As with any industry, significant changes are occurring.  Companies spend less on fixed internal resources and are outsourcing more.  Learners are changing in the way they learn, perhaps due to the generational shift.  And of course, technology has made the social side of learning more available and effective. Training executives, those who manage company training resources and programs, must continue to innovate to address these changes to stay relevant.

For this month’s LAB, we will apply the corporate innovation method, S.I.T., to a training program.  Our goal is to find new-to-the-world concepts that improve a company’s training efforts.  The method works by applying one of five innovation patterns to components within the training environment.  The pattern has the effect of morphing the component into something that seems unrecognizable or ambiguous.  We take that “virtual product” and work backwards to uncover potential benefits or markets served, a process called “Function Follows Form.”

Begin by listing the major components of a corporate training program:

1. Trainees
2. Faculty
3. Classrooms
4. Curriculum
5. Lesson Plans
6. Technology
7. Customers (of the firm)
8. Products (services) of the firm
9. Learning management system (keeps track of courses, enrollments, etc)

Here are five ideas, each using one of the five S.I.T. innovation patterns: