Worse, these buzz words lead people to think this is a radical deviation from the path we've always been on. Which is a way of selling major surgery. The very term is an unnecessary redundancy. Everyone learns from the first day on the job. All of the rhetoric about transforming our global corporations into open campuses, misses the essential point of what we're about.
Business is about the application of knowledge.
Application turns a learning culture into an earning culture. And that hasn't changed. Ever since the advent of the computer, and satellite global communications, knowledge has been building on itself exponentially. A couple of decades ago, when we hired an engineer, we used to get a measure of knowledge that would last for most of a career. If our corporation doesn't pick up where the school left off soon, the technical knowledge we thought we'd hired will turn sour fast.